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Marion Stokes's video collection will be digitized by The Internet Archive in California. This is a remarkable story. Atlas Obscura wrote about a woman who had recorded over 30 years of television on roughly 71,000 VHS and Betamax cassettes in Philadelphia. Her name was Marion Stokes. Marion began her recordings in the 70s all the …
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This brilliant audiovisual mashup shows what could have been if GoT was an 80s series. Yes, I'm 5 years late and the series just finished but everyone was unhappy with the last season so let's remember the good times. And mix them up with late 80s nostalgia. YouTuber Mikolaj.Birek put together two Game of Thrones …
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A couple of regular dudes have made a career from collecting eccentric VHS tapes. I'm a nostalgia freak. There was a lot in the 90s I only saw but never fully experienced and that decade was the happiest of my life. VHS tapes played a major part of that and I love hearing about collectors, …
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One of my favourite accounts on Twitter has to be @CoolFilmArt. It's a treasure trove of, well, cool film art with incredible posters from all over the world. We spoke to Robyn, one of the curators of the account about its origins and some of her favourite film posters. So, how did the @CoolFilmArt account …
Before DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and even VHS tapes, there was the Betamax. I was born after the Betamax came and went. In fact, I heard more about it in terms of its demise than any kind of praise for the technology. VHS was my life right up until 2006 (although I still use it to …
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