Calvert DeForest. You might know him as Larry “Bud” Melman from Late Night with David Letterman. In 1989, he starred in a 35-minute parody fitness video called The Couch Potato...
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📼 500+ tapes in the archive. More added weekly.
Local TV, forgotten commercials, recordings that nobody saved. We open them live, four nights a week.
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A Polaroid Supercolor T-120 labeled “NEVER ERASE” in someone’s handwriting. Six hours of EP mode sports recordings spanning 1979 to 1991, all from central Ohio broadcasts. This was someone’s prized...
A BASF Extra Quality T-120 with a sticky note label listing four titles: The Child, Steven, Hurricane Del, and RoboCop. Six hours of EP recording from KAKE-TV 10 in Wichita,...
A plain black VHS cassette. No label. No sleeve. No markings. The kind of tape that could be anything. It turned out to be a TiVo-to-VHS transfer from 2006 with...
Six hours of Columbus, Ohio television from August 1992 on a single Veratron T-120 tape. Someone hit record and let it run across WCMH-4, WSYX-6, NBC, ESPN, and C-SPAN. The...
It Opens Like a PSA The spine label says “WATER TREATMENT PROGRAM.” Reasonable assumption: some industrial or municipal training tape about water filtration. The kind of thing that circulated through...
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Who is 90s Craig?
Craig is a VHS archivist and lost media preservationist based in Columbus, Ohio. He runs a 615-tape physical archive and streams four nights a week on Twitch, opening tapes live and documenting whatever's on them.
What is the 90s Craig archive?
A physical collection of VHS tapes covering recordings from 1979 through the mid-2000s — local TV broadcasts, commercials, corporate training videos, home recordings, and mystery tapes with no labels. Every tape is digitized and documented.
What is lost media?
Lost media is any film, TV broadcast, recording, or other content that no longer exists in any known public archive — the only surviving copy is often a VHS recorded off a TV decades ago. The 90s Craig archive has confirmed lost media on dozens of tapes.