{"id":40196,"date":"2023-03-07T07:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40196"},"modified":"2023-03-07T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:28:54","slug":"before-video-cassettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/before-video-cassettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Video Cassettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sci-Fi Home Movies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52730683869\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52730683869_844f700228_c.jpg?resize=567%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sci-Fi Home Movies\" width=\"567\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A lot of members of the generation that begat the baby boomers were sold on movie cameras in order to capture those babies&#8217; first steps or opening presents Christmas morning or the vacation to the beach. And if Mom and Dad bought the motion picture camera, they <em>had<\/em> to have the projector in order to view the movies. A few companies had the idea of offering Hollywood movies in a truncated version to those consumers that had the projector tucked away in a closet. It wasn&#8217;t as big as the home video revolution that was to come, but there were companies that made a buck selling 8mm versions of classic and sub-classic Hollywood fare. They may have run 15 minutes long and played out the story in a greatly condensed reel of highlights, but they were a lot of fun.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6jA5PK\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3329\/3492130801_4f5df600ba_z.jpg?resize=640%2C636&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Mummy\" width=\"640\" height=\"636\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a few, and when Dad would fire up the projector in order to stroll down memory lane with the home movies, we would shuffle in a couple of the home versions of horror classics like this version of <em>The Mummy<\/em> which I still insist is the best version of this film even though it is greatly condensed. I love the original, but vigorous editing improves this movie making it a beautiful, dreamlike experience that piques the cinematic taste buds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EERIE NO 78\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52715438051\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52715438051_9ac9f82bcd_z.jpg?resize=487%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EERIE NO 78\" width=\"487\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The advertisement at the top of the page for Sci-Fi Home Movies was found in <em>Eerie<\/em> No. 78 which was published in 1976 by Warren Publishing. Warren published <em>Creepy<\/em>, <em>Vampirella, Famous Monsters of Filmland<\/em> and a few other mostly black and white magazines that all ran the same ads for posters, tee-shirts, back issues and 8mm movies. That was half the fun of these magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of members of the generation that begat the baby boomers were sold on movie cameras in order to capture those babies&#8217; first steps or opening presents Christmas morning or the vacation to the beach. And if Mom and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/before-video-cassettes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,335],"tags":[151,5478,5585,76,1344,3183,5584,5586],"class_list":["post-40196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-8mm","tag-eerie","tag-fil","tag-horror","tag-magazine","tag-movies","tag-super-8","tag-warren-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-ask","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1493,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/07\/27\/plague-productions\/","url_meta":{"origin":40196,"position":0},"title":"Plague Productions","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I started writing another Willceau Illo News entry about one of the last round ups for the Ducks and DUCKWORK when it started to get way too long and convoluted. 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Walt's anthropomorphic water fowl with the irritating voice was shilling a 16mm projector for the low price of $2.98. If you read through the ad's copy, the offer turns into something similar to the record clubs and the video clubs to come. 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