EIAJ-1, developed by the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (in conjunction with several Japanese electronics manufacturers) in 1969, was the first standardized format for industrial/non-broadcast videotape recorders (VTRs). It was developed in response to most non-broadcast industrial VTRs on the market at the time relying on proprietary formats exclusive to the make (and sometimes model) of VTR, instead of using an industry-standard format. As a result, video tapes recorded on one make and/or model of VTR could only be interchanged with the same, hampering compatibility. EIAJ-1 did away with all of this, giving those manufacturers a standardized format interchangeable with almost all the VTRs that they manufactured.

The EIAJ-1 standard paved the way for consumer oriented non-professional analog recording technology to become more affordable and widespread, with many businesses, schools, government agencies, hospitals, and even some consumers to immediately adopt the format in the early 1970s. Some of the first public-access television stations that went on the air in that same era also used EIAJ-1 extensively, due to its portability, low cost, and versatility.

June Rose Callwood, CC OOnt (June 2, 1924 – April 14, 2007) was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She was born in Chatham, Ontario and grew up in nearby Belle River.

Callwood began her journalism career at Brantford Collegiate Institute, her high school, where she was editor of the school paper. She dropped out of school to work for the Brantford Expositor. In 1942, she was offered a job with The Globe and Mail and moved to Toronto. She married journalist Trent Frayne two years later, but continued to use her own surname because The Globe and Mail at that time did not employ married women.

She ultimately left the Globe and Mail to raise a family but later resumed her career by becoming a freelance journalist, writing books and magazine pieces, many for Maclean's. Callwood ghost-wrote close to ten autobiographies for such prominent Americans as broadcaster Barbara Walters, film director Otto Preminger and Dr. Charles William Mayo. Frayne and Callwood also hosted the CBC Television talk show The Fraynes in the 1954-55 television season.

Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964), known as "Big T" and "The Swingin' Gate", was an influential jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone".

Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians. Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age seven he had switched to trombone. He first heard jazz music played by the Louisiana Five and decided to play in the new style.

Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-bebop era, and did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the old tailgate style role of the early New Orleans brass bands. Chief among his contributions to the language of jazz trombonists was his ability to interject the blues or merely a "blue feeling" into virtually any piece of music.