{"id":36745,"date":"2021-11-02T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:01:50","slug":"be-kind-please-rewind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/be-kind-please-rewind\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Kind &#8211; Please Rewind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Price Break! VCR for $699!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2406851836\/in\/photolist-2m3p4kG-2m3qaDy-2m3kqvr-2m3t19b-2m3t16A-2m3uyFV-2m3sZYS-2jxXdhc-fKqe8p-aindjs-7XVnJ6-6YLQme-4S1Fy7-4EFKcs-4Chn9F-5yoMLL-ikaeES\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/2410\/2406851836_44cf723857_z.jpg?resize=640%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Price Break! VCR for $699!\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Sometimes I have a great notion, and a lot of times I have merely middling notions. It was while pursuing one of these middling notions that I came across <em>a treasure trove<\/em>!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was trawling the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Internet Archive<\/em><\/a> which is a great junk heap of pictures, prose, video, audio and ephemera that has entered the public domain. It&#8217;s all there absolutely <em>FREE<\/em> for anybody to use and enjoy with no copyright or price restrictions. I was there looking for a tacky Christmas video with which I could torment my readers. The post was going to be titled <em>&#8220;Too Soon?&#8221;<\/em> and I was hoping to get my mileage off of the trend of stores and radio stations rushing the <em>Christmas<\/em> season before the <em>Halloween<\/em> candy has been devoured.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Har! Har! That&#8217;s a knee slapper, Joe!<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That was the plan, but then I came across something a lot more interesting!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36748\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/be-kind-please-rewind\/633px-vhs_tape_rewinder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36748\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36748\" data-attachment-id=\"36748\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/be-kind-please-rewind\/633px-vhs_tape_rewinder\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/633px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpeg?fit=633%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"633,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"633px-VHS_tape_rewinder\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;VHS Rewinder&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Attribution: FoxLad at English Wikipedia&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/633px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpeg?fit=633%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36748\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/633px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpeg?resize=300%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"VHS Rewinder\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/633px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpeg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/633px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpeg?w=633&amp;ssl=1 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attribution: FoxLad at English Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found an entry in the archive titled <em>Cassette Archive<\/em>. I thought it was probably a collection of old DIY, punk rock, audio cassettes that I have seen and mainly ignored before, but no. Some lunatic or lunatics digitized <em>hundreds<\/em> of forgotten video cassettes that used to litter the shelves of small, family owned video shops and the big outfits like <em>Blockbuster<\/em> and <em>Hollywood Video <\/em>and uploaded them to the Archive. If you spent an inordinate amount of time wandering the aisles of video stores as I have, you will recognize some of these titles. There were many that I looked at and returned to the shelves figuring that I might be wasting my money.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can waste my time because they are all free!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/video_archive_553-cd-207\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>There&#8217;s something for everyone in this oddball collection provided that you&#8217;re not too demanding or not expecting a whole lot. You can enjoy it embedded above or head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/video_archive_553-cd-207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Internet Archive<\/em><\/a> to watch or download it there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have a great notion, and a lot of times I have merely middling notions. It was while pursuing one of these middling notions that I came across a treasure trove!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,368],"tags":[203,457,419,462],"class_list":["post-36745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-movie-matinee","tag-cassette","tag-vhs","tag-video","tag-video-store"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9yF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39545,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/mesmerized-by-a-cheap-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":36745,"position":0},"title":"Mesmerized by a Cheap Sketchbook","author":"Joe","date":"November 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"My love affair with a three-dollar sketchbook meant for the juvenile market continues as I find myself doodling in it regularly. 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