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Beta Tapes
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: betamax tapes Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:03:49 +1000 >Got an URL? several. why, can't you find any? ---- end of sarcastic bit ---- i have a collection of betamax videotapes. some three hundred of them. they're all old, of course. documentaries taped over sf shows taped over obscure british comedies taped over warner brothers cartoons taped over early footage of Melbourne band This Is Serious Mum. for some odd reason the upper layers of shows were always a minute or so shorter than the things they'd been taped over. if you watched a tape right to the finish, you'd get the ends of about a dozen different shows, interspersed with television commercials from ten years ago. it feels like archaeology when you discover an interesting fossil (such as an example of an early computer-animated Channel 10 station ID clip. one day i will find a videotape of a show from when they were known as Channel 0) particularly when you acquire old tapes from someone else. i have this mild daydream of finding the video equivalent of the Dead Sea scrolls in there. some of these shows seem alien. the style that they present shouts a self-confidence that they don't feel. as if each cheesy seventies cop show was written by Ovid and it loudly proclaims its own immortality with the title sequence. |
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