The screen recorder is of utmost importance to the archivist.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

 

I always tell you my middle name should be scanner. Well, screen recorder is right up there as a 2nd choice. Today I hit 30,000 knives in my online knife and sword survey.

...all made with a screen recorder. 

 

 

Gold is always in the news nowadays. I did multiple surveys with the screen recorder on gold, silver and other metals. 

 

 

Lots of companies don't make catalogs any longer. I wrote to Black Diamond and asked if they had a 2025 catalog. Answer was no, not even a PDF catalog. So, sometimes I make catalogs myself. I make a screenshot survey of a company's website with a screen recorder.

 

 

 

OK, this isn't a screenshot. But I did originally shoot it as a screenshot. Then went to eBay to buy it and scan it proper with my large format 11" x 17" scanner.

You see photos online you can't download, movies, gif, etc. Downloading is blocked. Use a screen recorder. People will say they can take a screenshot without a screen recorder. OK, go do it for hundreds of thousands of images. I blast out screenshots like a machine gun...7 days a week!

I'm not a sociologist, but I am kinda like a sociologist. A section of my archive's scope deals with houses and how people live.

 

 

 

This house has an interesting feature, a movable Island. I'm not interested in buying the houses. I just like to record how people live. Each house may have 80 - 130 screenshots in the survey. Tens of thousands of photos all done with a screen recorder. 

Here is a movie called 'China Doll' I made with a screen recorder. It is made from +/- 450 still screenshots I shot in a couple of hours and is about Chinese silicone love dolls. When younger I was a street photographer. I am trained at fast shooting, not in f'ing around. This is the kind of movies I like to make. Boom, you are finished with them in a couple days and on to the next project.

To do moviemaking right you have to be very anal aka methodical. That is not me. Sure, I like high quality work, but it also has to be fast. ADD won't go for much analness. That is why running a movie archive fits my personality best. I scan, I post-p, I upload and boom...all done! I learned early on I'm not cut out for on-set work and bullshit. Plus, most everyone in the archival films are dead. No personalities to deal with!

NSFW

China Doll D.D.Teoli Jr. : D.D.Teoli Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

You can copy movies with a screen recorder, but I don't have any samples handy. I didn't bother to distinguish the few videos I did as being made with a screen recorder. Sometimes I will copy a video with a screen recorder just to watch it later and relax with TV viewing instead of computer. Then I trash it as it didn't have that much interest in it after all. Whatever, you can record online video fine.

You like to archive things, get a screen recorder. An outstanding tool for the archivist! I use it multiple times per day.

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Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2025 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

OK, here is an example of video shot with a screen recorder. It can be done sharper than this. This was done for archival reasons to document an AI video sample from YT. You can get DVD quality or better from a screen recorder. It just depends on the original and your screen recorder. 

An Example of an AI Video on YouTube D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive