Abstract: A video transcript retriever includes a control unit, a control interface, a tape unit and a display unit. The control unit includes a control computer having a software package consisting of control software, text software and edit software. The control software has the capacity to permit simultaneous operation of both the test software, which is capable of storing and searching voluminous documents, and the edit software, which has the capacity to operate the tape unit with precision. The text software is capable of performing a search function that at any time can provide the exact location of a specific passage within the searched document in terms of page and line. The edit software has the capacity to provide at any time the timecode number pre-recorded on the videotape that corresponds to a specific passage.