home video

American  

noun

1. a videotape recorded by camcorder generally for noncommercial use, especially for viewing at home.

2. the business of renting or selling prerecorded videocassettes for viewing especially at home.

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Example Sentences

“What was important to me was to view their story through their own perspective. So I had this idea of giving them each these mini DV camcorders, which you see in the film, and I wanted them to document when our crew wasn’t around, because for me, that type of archival and home video footage, it feels like your dad or your uncle going around and shooting you, right? There’s something so intimate about that type of footage.”

From Salon

Fanning: I think it’s like watching an old movie, like a home video of yourself.

From Los Angeles Times

“Every time a disruption hits — whether the introduction of television, the rise of cable, home video, the arrival of the internet — Hollywood always reacts like it’s an extinction-level event,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Many fans of Acorn — which started out as a direct marketer of British TV series on home video and was acquired by AMC in 2018 — are what Thomasma calls “armchair travelers” who want to take in a French vineyard or the cobblestone streets of Chelsea.

From Los Angeles Times

The seeds of “South Park” were planted when college buddies Parker and Stone created a crudely animated short film called “The Spirit of Christmas,” made with paper cutouts, which took the country by storm on home video and became an early viral sensation.

From Los Angeles Times