#Videocassette

[twoheadedfilmfan]

#stop making sense #jonathan demme #talking heads #david byrne #1984 #advertisements #vhs #videocassette #1980’s #80s #concert films #music documentary #music documentaries #80s movies #80s cinema #music #80s music #80s pop #80s rock #new wave #post punk #punk #art rock #art pop #alternative rock #pop rock

[warakami-vaporwave]

Tylenol Cherry Coke T-90

#pop art #vhs #lofi #90s #vhs cover #art #90s kids #cherry coke #aesthetic #retro #nostalgia #1990s #cyberghetto #lowbrow #photoshop #videocassette #video cassette #pop surrealism #video tapes #1000

[neondreams83]

#80s #retro #vintage #memories #sci-fi #VGA #CRT #CGI #videocassette #TV #NEON #science #li-fi #neon nights #new wave #1980s #FM

[vintagegeekculture]

Ever notice that at the start of old VHS tapes, just before the FBI Warning, there were a bunch of beeping noises that sounded like a telephone dialing? What was that, anyway? 

The telephonic beeping noises at the start of VHS tapes are there because cassettes are created from one master spool in the factory, and the beeping is an analog signal intended to tell the factory to “cut” the tape right at that point with a knife, to load into the cassette tapes, as it is where one tape ends and another begins. 

Also, if you’ve ever heard dial-up internet, as you connect, you might have heard a beeping that became a growling buzz. What you are hearing is digital information converted into an analog sound comprehensible over a phone. 

If you’ve ever used an old computer that stored data in cassettes, like the Commodore 64 tape drive, if you ever played one of the game tapes in a stereo, it will sound almost exactly like a dial up sound. 

#vhs history #vintage technology #retro #80s #videocassette

[vhshistory]

Cartoon Network Christmas VHS promo (1996)

#cartoon network #the flintstones #scooby doo #vhs #vhs preview #vhs promo #videocassette #christmas #xmas #1990s #90s #nostalgia #christmas movies #cartoon network video

[evilhorse]

Batman video ad from January 1990

#Batman #batman movie #videocassette #vhs #home video #ad #1980s movies

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

The "Disney's Classics" pressings...

There were VHS "releases" of three Disney animated features that are kind of a clustercuss to talk about...

DUMBO, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and THE SWORD IN THE STONE were titles in the "Classics" line that Walt Disney Home Video used for the company's animated feature library from 1984 to 1994. These three films were unique in that they didn't return to the vault or go on moratorium. They were always, as "Classics" releases, available to purchase at any given time back in the day...

Now, these three titles had already received Classics releases in the mid-1980s. DUMBO in November 1985, followed by SWORD in March 1986, and then ALICE in May 1986. Pictured below were the final issues of those releases, from fall 1987. (They had seen minor packaging updates over the course of a year or so.)

Now you may be wondering... Hey, isn't that the same ALICE cover as the one at the top? It is!

You see, when DUMBO, ALICE, and SWORD received their Classics cover updates in September 1989, to promote the home video debut of BAMBI... Well, wait a minute... ALICE didn't. For whatever reason, Walt Disney Home Video continued to use the 1986/87 cover. Without even updating the heading from "Walt Disney's" to "Walt Disney's CLASSIC", to keep it in line with the other two updated covers...

These are weird "releases" because the only thing new about them - well, DUMBO and SWORD - were the cover artworks. Inside were the 1987 tapes and labels... (I do not have a 1987 SWORD release with a 1987-era label, myself, so it's not pictured below. My copy has a 1986-era label with the "Walt Disney Productions" copyright.)

... and they opened the same way as the '87 tapes, too: Red-orange FBI warnings (or just antipiracy screens if you got them in Canada) and the 1984 flipping text Classics animated intro sequence.

Some time around, I want to say towards the end of 1990... They made updates to the labels for DUMBO and SWORD...

Those new labels reflect the typography seen on the 1989 cover artworks. "Walt Disney's" is in a basic sans-serif font, this typeface also appears on the 1988 video release of CINDERELLA, and the 1989 video release of BAMBI.

They still open the same way, though...

Then, by mid-1991, we finally saw these releases get white-ink labels... Curiously, instead of having the diamond logo that says "THE CLASSICS"/"Walt Disney Home Video", we have a diamond that says "Disney's CLASSICS"... A diamond that appears nowhere else in the history of the Classics lines:

And these contained fully updated prints, too... The tapes now open with the 1989 Walt Disney Classics animated intro sequence, and the film prints used are different. DUMBO and SWORD IN THE STONE have a Buena Vista title card at their respective starts...

Curiously, DUMBO's ink label says "Walt Disney's CLASSIC"... But ALICE and SWORD use the old mid-80s headings...

Lastly, ALICE got a minor case update. The heading was finally changed from "WALT DISNEY'S" to "Walt Disney's CLASSIC" around early 1994...

But for whatever reason, they never gave ALICE a new cover. The LaserDisc release from around this period used a much different rendering of the Mad Tea Party scene. A release I do not have, but am familiar with...

Eventually, these would all be replaced when Disney ended the Classics line and started the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. The day the line debuted, in October 1994 with the first-ever home video release of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, these titles were given all new covers, all-new tapes, all-new everything...

DUMBO and SWORD's Masterpiece covers, as you can see, re-use the 1989 Classics covers. ALICE uses the LaserDisc artwork, and an all-new logo for the movie. These would be in print until a later release of sorts. (In DUMBO's case, the 2001 60th Anniversary release. In ALICE's case, a 2nd Masterpiece release in 1999. And in SWORD's case, the 2001 Gold Classic Collection release.)

#disney vhs #disney #disney animation #dumbo #alice in wonderland #sword in the stone #vhs #videocassette #1980s #1990s #80s #90s #fun facts

[frogshunnedshadows]

Ampex blank VHS tape in hard case.

#ampex #vhs #tape #videotape #videocassette #retro #flea market

[80smovies]

#The Seventh Sign #Demi Moore #Carl Schultz #Ellen Green #Clifford Green #Videocassette #VHS #80s

[twoheadedfilmfan]

#beavis and butthead do america #beavis and butt head do america #mtv #mike judge #1996 #vhs #videocassette #advertisements #print ads #1990’s #90s #beavis and butthead #beavis and butt head #90s movies #90s cinema #90s animation

[warakami-vaporwave]

Super Nostalgia Rated E

#nintendo #snes #pop art #super nintendo #90s kids #vhs #lofi #90s #vhs cover #art #90skids #retro #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #videocassette #cassette #video cassette #video tapes #retro gaming #gaming

[movie--posters]

#the company of wolves #stephen rae #neil jordan #sarah patterson #angela lansbury #david warner #movies #movie poster #micha bergese #80s #1980s #film #films #poster #posters #movie #horror #fantasy #videocassette

[contac]

#zondervan #logo #vhs logos #videocassette #vhs #gif #1995

[kply-industries]

#animated gif #animated gifs #gif #gifs #old advertisements #old ads #retro #vhs #flintstones #terrible movies #john goodman #rosie o'donnell #19.98 #or less #videocassette #90s

[brinconvenient]

My elder daughter is in London and very excited to see her first professional production of "Noises Off" so I decided I wanted to watch the movie, which I'd not seen in ages, again. I call this piece "For we live in a world of madness and I, sadly, remain sane"

#physical media #Noises Off #brin is old #brin is so extra #hitting a fly with a sledgehammer #vhs #video tapes #video tape #videocassette #who but the fbi called them a videocassette?

[shihlun]

#vhs #vhs tape #videocassette #television screen #noise #video tape #eject #sp