#early 80s vhs

[mikurulucky]

Up until I went traipsing around youtube for random logo vids in middle school/early high school, I didn't know just HOW LONG good ol F.H.E. was in business. I had two christmas special tapes back then that were released around the late 80s and another one from the early 90s, so my kid self only saw the yellow 80s variant and the 90s paintbrush one.

Yeah, you can tell this was made on a real low budget like a LOT of vhs company logos in the early 80s. It's sometimes called the soda pop variant and for good reason imo. The big computer generated ball of light makes me think of fizzy pop and the popping bleeps and bloops sound almost exactly like the sound a glass of ginger ale would make immediately after pouring it, only with the audio increased by a lot.

[goobersplat]

Used, Labeled VHS Tapes

1 and 2

[20ctrl]

i was in that

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𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚎 - PTP End of Broadcast (1996)

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[fluffypinkpie]

I'm scared, where are you?...

[rainymoodlet]

@buglaur, some radical 90s clothes | "welcome to another episode of your dad's garage, i'm so glad you joined me today. grab your tools, and let's learn something together."

[contac]

[metrixnos]

also adding to the photographer tommy post, i like to think all the rolls of film from exile have some form of damage to them. be it over exposed because some rolls got exposed while being loaded; water damage because some rolls weren’t properly capped and tommy went into the ocean; or the film he shot on was expired. leading to strange light brakes, color floods, exposure levels, black point imbalances and so on.

he has as least 15 rolls from exile. all old film he was determined to take with him. not every roll made it back though. some are still scattered about at his camp, or at the beach, or lost in the explosion of logstedshire. or taken.

one roll of photos blended in with exile, the last photo on that roll of film is a landscape of the camp he was moved to at sunset.

[clownkiwi]

i wanna get a crt tube tv sooo badly and start collecting old vhs tapes to watch them on

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

 art by fullmontis

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[midnightrecording]

Shelves line the walls from floor to ceiling, just as you remember it. They bear the weight of hundreds of VHS tapes, their garishly stupid covers hinting at the thrills contained within - which, of course, might not always be contained in the movie. Still, each tape is a brick-like plastic gateway to a world of fantasy or wonder or things blowing the fuck up.

On one wall, identikit action films with amusingly badly painted muscle-bound heroes against equally shoddily painted explosive showdowns. On another, comedy flicks; mostly unfunny, and not exactly ribtickling when compared against Vic & Bob, Tim & Eric, Chris Morris, etc... still, they'll pass 70 minutes.

In the horror section there's the biggest chance of seeing something truly amazing. You're not sure if this store has that one movie about the normal cat that vomits out a deadly killer cat at inopportune moments. The plot has something about a boat and some stolen money, and the vomit cat's invincible… you've bored people to tears in the past going on about it. Their loss.

[kply-industries]