Sounds like your VCR failed to slow down enough before it finished rewinding, snapping the ribbon off the spool. It's happened a few times to me. Tudor Rose's video covers a mid-ribbon snap, but a ribbon-from-spool snap is a bit trickier to fix. Take a piece of scotch tape, cut it in half longways. Apply the two pieces to the end of the ribbon, hanging off of it, overlapping each other so it will still fit between the spool, sticky side towards the casing. Then, using a small blunt object (I have a small screwdriver that I use for VHS tapes, so I use the handle of that), apply the taped ribbon-end to the core of the empty spool. Then reassemble, and test the tape.
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I used to record Web Junk 20 during the day so that I could watch them after school without filling the then-limited capacity of the family DVR. Depending on whether I had seen the previous episode yet, I'd cycle between two tapes. After a while, they got written over before I became aware of the concept of Lost Media or I had even acquired my hobby of VHS capturing.
In the year+ since I've written this guide I have learned a lot more about the process and made some improvements to my own setup. I do agree with everything in your post except for aging of Hi-Fi tracks (at least for the moment). I have to re-rip most of my tape collection due to an error with converting them on my part (did a shitty job de-interlacing) and a hard drive crash, so I'll definitely look into trying to rip stereo tracks again. In general, I wrote the guide with the idea that the reader would be completely new to the prospect, so I didn't want to risk confusing them by discussing S-VHS players or the Head count and that the reader may only be interested in ripping one or two tapes so I avoided making them think they needed expensive equipment when I believe all we as a community should desire is the footage itself in any viewable form. I linked to the anarchivism guide for those that wanted to dig a bit further for that reason. As I re-read the guide now I do cringe a little at some oversimplification and vagueness in it. It needs a re-write and I will definitely include the information you have given, thank you.
Coraline. This one's been on my to-watch list for a while, but why would I watch another beautiful Tim Burton animated film when there's stuff like The Killer Shrews and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? It took me getting sick to finally sit down and watch it (I didn't feel like getting up to swap hard drives). Sure enough, this is another beautiful animated film under the direction of Tim Burton - done by another team, however. So I did miss the spring-like animation style of Nightmare Before Christmas. Coraline's animation is more like Life With Loopy: a bit more cartoonish. Upon the movie's opening, I was informed that the film was adapted from a book of the same name - a fact I was not aware of beforehand, but became prevalent very quickly. Throughout the movie, I felt like I was missing something - like I was not getting the full story. How did Wybie's grandmother even get the Coraline doll to begin with? I understand that details need to be trimmed when adapting a book to film, but this feeling was with me through the whole viewing. Other than that, I did enjoy the film. The atmosphere was perfect, the spider imagery when combating the Other Mother blew me away as it wasn't hammered into me, but instead slowly pieced together as it should be. I've always been a fan of stop-motion animation, just ask anyone who knows me around Christmastime. But that wasn't the only stop-motion film I saw that night. I guess I felt like some stop-motion that night.
Mighty Joe Young, the original 1949 version. For those that aren't familiar the story is about a gorilla raised by a young girl into adulthood who forms a strong with her, becoming her faithful protector. After twelve years together, an entrepeneur travels to Africa seeking an act for his new night club where he stumbles across the duo. He signs the two up to work for the club as a weekly act, but the two quickly start to grow weary of the show fairly quickly. The effects where done by the same team as the original King Kong, but with 16 more years of experience, and boy does it show. Unlike the goofy expressions of King Kong, Joe actually looks threatening and emotes very well for a puppet. But what really impressed me were the seamless transitions between stop motion shots and live action shots, nearly frame perfect. Particularly whenever Joe picks someone up. The puppet is always perfectly positioned in the way the actor was in the previous frame. I enjoyed every minute of it... whenever I wasn't sneezing my brains out.
I discovered that this penguin-shaped famiclone existed about four or five years ago. Little did I know I would someday come to own one myself - for a single dollar! There are apparently many variants of this thing, and mine didn't come boxed so I can only assume that this is what came with mine: two extremely cheap controllers, one light pistol, power cable, famiclone cart, and an AV cable that ends in a... jack?
The best part about this famiclone is its design: glowing red eyes (which turned out pink in the photo, unfortunately), a beak-shaped power button, a little bowtie, a huge IR reciever on its chest, tiny yellow feet, and the fact that the cartridge is inserted by jamming it onto its back. The cartridge itself is like any other bootleg cart of this type, 111 NES ROMs. No repeats, though, and it has Devil World and 1942 which is great for me!
In case you ever wondered: yes. Most of these cartridges do work on official hardware. Using an adapter that can be found in most copies of Gyromite, you can get these carts to boot and play just fine on a real NES. I only suggest using the top-loader, though, as you may not get it out of a toaster model.
A running gag amongst my family is the phrase "Sleepy Time". We got the phrase from an old commercial that played long ago. I remember quite a lot of it, thankfully. But, like most humor-based commercials of today, I can only remember the joke and not the product being advertised, so I'm having difficulty finding it. I'm about 90% sure that the commercial was for a car. It may have been another generic Geico ad, though. The premise is that a man on a surgical table is talking to the surgeons about to operate on him about the product, saying all of these wonderful things about it. The surgeons don't believe him and are laughing until one finally holds up the knockout gas mask and says 'sleepy time'. I know that the commercial is AT LEAST 10 years old. If anyone knows anything about it or has happened across it recently, I would love to see it again.
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The few that have read my guide on swapping tape shells will recognize these. As far as I know, these are the home video releases to own if you want to see Star Wars in its least edited forms. I wouldn't know as I still haven't seen any Star Wars movie in any form. Well, these are the re-releases, but I think I read there is no difference between these and the original VHS releases. I'm mostly bringing these up as I mentioned how bad my sleeve for The Empire Strikes Back looks in that guide, so here it is.
For $10 I got a bundle of Gamera tapes. Amongst them were these three: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion, and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. While the rest of the tapes in the bundle were standard US releases, these three have Japanese audio with English subtitles. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal. But based on the generic labels of 1 and 2 and the T-stamps on the sides of the tapes (usually found on home VHS tapes), I assume that these are bootlegs. But if they are bootlegs, they're at least high quality bootlegs. No distortion in the transfers, the clamshell inserts are done on quality paper, and the labels are nice and strong. In between the clamshells and tapes are my home-made slipsleeves, so they fit in my sheleves.
At least those tapes came with clamshells. I had to make custom slipsleeves for these two just so they'd have a home (in case you couldn't tell from the inkjet lines and the giant "VHSCOLLECTOR.COM" watermark). I got both of these for a dollar. A great deal considering the series lies in that same area as Silent Night, Deadly Night. It was bad/unpopular enough to have a scarce relase, but now that it's mainstream everybody with a copy is holding it for ransom regardless of whether or not their copy is worth anything. See also: SUPER MARIO BROTERS DUCK HENT WOW! RARE NES SUPER NINTENDO GAME L@@k BIN LOT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE WORDS MEAN BUT THEY GET CLICKS $59.99.
Ninja the Protector. I'm going to be completely honest. I picked this up solely because it looks like something you'd see on The Cinema Snob. I have yet to watch it, but just look at it. Ninjas riding motorcycles with wings, one holding a crossbow. You know this is gonna be bad in one of many different ways. The case itself is strange, too. It feels like it's made of cheap rubber rather your typical disney-style box plastic.
These two have nothing in common. Don't bother trying to solve a nonexistant puzzle. I just didn't want to waste any more post space. You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown isn't rare or special (or a spookyspaghetti). But, I'm sure many of you will be surprised to learn that there is a Charlie Brown special that has not nor will ever be released on a DVD or later format. This VHS tape is the only way to obtain this special, and it was sold exclusively through Shell gas stations. As you may have guessed, this special is about football. Despite the name, the Super Bowl plays no role. The special uses real NFL logos on their helmets, though, so any future releases would require permission from the NFL. I just thought that a Charlie Brown short not being mass-produced on all home media was interesting. As for the Snake People, I get a kick out of how generic this sleeve art is. It looks more like a heavy metal album than a VHS sleeve. On top of that, this was a Gemstone Entertainment release. It's practically ancient.
My promo copy of Full Moon Pictures' Demonic Toys. I love Full Moon Pictures' films. They're perfectly cheesey. I found this tape at a flea market along with a store advertisement tape for MTV's "I Want My MTV" VHS tape (as in the tape contains an ADVERTISEMENT to be played in-store for the "I Want My MTV" tape.) This is a full, complete copy of the film with the text 'This is a review copy - not for sale' periodically popping in and out. Neato.
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