Location: Ohio
Habitats for Learning: Ohio Takes a New Look at School Land Labs (1994)
Ohio’s school land lab video opens with a mad-scientist-looking man and includes outdoor teaching, Walden Pond, and a trust fall.
Detective Drip Tracer’s: The Case of the Vanishing Water
Watch the complete Detective Drip Tracer VHS: Columbus reservoirs and treatment plants, animated Water Wasters and future water plans.
Stretching for Seniors with Ann Smith
I’ve been collecting these things long enough that the senior exercise tapes are starting to look less like stream material and more like planning ahead. Ann Smith’s program takes the slow warm-up movements used by classical dancers and turns them into a gentle, whole-body stretching routine for people over 50. No special equipment, and you’re…
Millionaire was only part of the day
August 16, 1999. ABC aired the first episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. This Polaroid T-120 caught all four premiere week episodes before anyone understood what they were watching. Six hours of Cleveland television, Regis Philbin, and a MONSTER TAPE stream.
UPN 43 had a full night in Cleveland
Someone in Cleveland recorded six hours of UPN 43 on a Wednesday night in February 1997. Three Star Trek Voyager episodes, The Burning Zone, The Bodyguard, and a full load of Northeast Ohio local commercials from businesses that no longer exist.
Soul Train, Springer, and a Columbus Afternoon
Columbus, March 1999: Soul Train, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Young and the Restless recorded back to back. Someone had a very specific afternoon.