This vintage Sony Tape Recorder Ad from 1967 boasts about their new videotape recorder that "goes anywhere you go". I definitely take the ease of my iphone camera for granted. LIKE BOING BOING BUT ...

By 1970, the Sony U-Matic cassette appeared ... there were many attempts at repackaging surplus commercial video tape recorders for hobbyists as well as a few devices that showed up as kits ...