JVC camcorder
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- "Amazing. A portable television studio.."
- —Doc Brown observing the camcorder in 1955
The JVC camcorder was a brand of camcorder that Doc Brown possessed in 1985. Doc called Marty McFly to go to his garage and pick up the camcorder to bring to Twin Pines Mall on October 26. Marty documented the entire event and just before the Libyans attacked. Marty ran into the DeLorean time machine with the camcorder and transported it to 1955.
Once in 1955, Marty located the Doc of the past and showed him the tape. Doc was amazed that such a small device could record what a much larger television studio could do at the time. Upon watching the video, Doc realized that they needed 1.21 jigowatts of electricity to power the flux capacitor.
A JVC camcorder appeared in the window of the Blast From the Past antique store in 2015.
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It is unknown what becomes of the camcorder as it remains in 1955, although it is possible that in bringing it back to 1955 Marty connected a time loop. Had Doc still possessed the camcorder by 1985, the second Marty would have likely been asked to retrieve it for the test, creating a predestination paradox. Doc could also have destroyed the first one and bought a replacement in the future, thus removing any paradox from the timeline.
