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vhs tape archivist (i will post interesting and funny found footage here) | took a duck in the face at 250 knots

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The Academy doesnt want me to have this. "90 SCARS" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i barely watch tv anymore but i had the simpsons on e4 last night while i was doing something else and i stg every other ad was a christmas one
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
i have acquired 2x direct line telephones
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
burning to death bc i forgot to snuff out the agnes varda candle when i went to sleep
October 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
actually that reminds me the 2004 filler reel in the bfi archive has a PIF for EMA (specifically the one set in a workshop) that i've been trying to find for ages
i wrote down the dialogue in case it ever shows up in a break on yt and i can Filmot it
but nice to know it at least exists
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
this ad caught my eye in the bfi foyer today
i did not expect to see a clip from Get On "Entrance" playing on a big screen pretty much ever lmao
there's some real deep cut PIF footage in here. great ad for what they have available and in tantalising hq lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00U...
BFI Replay | A brand new free-to-use digital archive
YouTube video by BFI
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"awww a home movie with lots of dogs in it..... oh nvm that's a fox hunt 🙃"
September 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
a recording of UK Food switches to the same episode an hour later on UK Food +1
unfortunately not seamlessly but still a vaguely interesting find
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
i'm so proud of this lol
and yea it's captured from an actual tape. ive never seen an easily accessible vhs filter that looks particularly convincing

i should do more stuff like this for LCF and otherwise. i really wanna put some episodes of Andor on tape so that will def be a future project
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August 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
i may have cooked with the new LCF logo........
August 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
okay Funtime Video Films i WILL adjust my tracking. happy now?
July 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
added confused dot com Brian to my collection of ad vehicles. still need the direct line telephone
June 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
found a charity shop using vhs tapes to stop books being pushed too far back on the shelves
took a lot of digging and probably some weird looks but i did pull out a couple of recorded blanks. i bought them
June 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
new charity shop find
home video footage of a hoops tournament in an irish pub
June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
what a tragedy
June 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
thanks trisha
May 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
all that for Teresa May on Playboy TV :/
May 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
this one was a bit of a disaster
cleaned up nicely eventually but not before spewing a blizzard of ground up mold powder all over its own innards and my cleaning vcr 🤢
also put the spools in a new case and disposed of the old one
May 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
cleaning the mold off some tapes i got last year
these had been stored in a goat milking barn. not great for preservation!
May 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
did none of them think how harmful this machine would be to artists
May 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
more tape surgery...
May 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
my first splice of a broken tape
i'm not sure how much was lost but only seems to be a couple of seconds
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
cbeebies "nail bomb" continuity 2004
April 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM