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An archive of lost media & the stuff someone taped over
117 tapes and counting. Local TV, training videos nobody asked for, and commercials that only survived because somebody hit record. I open them live.
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VHS-2026-402
The Couch Potato Workout with Calvert DeForest (1989)
Calvert DeForest. You might know him as Larry “Bud” Melman from Late Night with David Letterman.…
VHS-2026-128
Ohio State, 1979 World Series and 1985 Baseball TV Recordings
A Polaroid Supercolor T-120 labeled “NEVER ERASE” in someone’s handwriting. Six hours of EP mode sports…
VHS-2026-247
KAKE-TV Wichita Late 1991 Broadcast with RoboCop
A BASF Extra Quality T-120 with a sticky note label listing four titles: The Child, Steven,…
VHS-2026-458
David Blaine Drowned Alive Three-Peat Tape
A plain black VHS cassette. No label. No sleeve. No markings. The kind of tape that…
VHS-2026-334
Columbus TV August 1992 with Olympics, News and Sports
Six hours of Columbus, Ohio television from August 1992 on a single Veratron T-120 tape. Someone…
VHS-2026-289
Water Treatment Program, an Amway Sales Training Tape
It Opens Like a PSA The spine label says “WATER TREATMENT PROGRAM.” Reasonable assumption: some industrial…
VHS-2026-011
Hot Rods From Hell at Englishtown Raceway Park
Quarter-Mile Match Racing at Englishtown VHS-2026-011 is a commercial release from Main Event Video — a…
VHS-2025-004
Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure on Cincinnati TV
Cincinnati, 1989 Technically this tape is labeled Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure. That’s a…