Image tapes functioned as a storage medium, holding a sequence of moving pictures.
It was thought that the long-gone Jerni culture utilized image tapes. Luke Skywalker found some image tapes inside an abandoned spaceship; after technicians from the Alliance to Restore the Republic's decoded them, they discovered details about something known as the Eternity Crystal, an artifact with the power to manipulate the passage of time. Nonetheless, it was later discovered that these tapes were actually an Imperial fabrication.