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VHS Tape Archive

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The Couch Potato Workout with Calvert DeForest (1989)

Calvert DeForest. You might know him as Larry “Bud” Melman from Late Night with David Letterman. In 1989,…

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 recordings spanning…

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, Hurricane Del,…

David Blaine Drowned Alive Three-Peat Tape

A plain black VHS cassette. No label. No sleeve. No markings. The kind of tape that could be…

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 hit record…

Water Treatment Program, an Amway Sales Training Tape

It Opens Like a PSA The spine label says “WATER TREATMENT PROGRAM.” Reasonable assumption: some industrial or municipal…

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 small production…

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 1989 CBS…

1998 Cleveland TV with Miss Ohio and Astros at Indians

Six Hours of 1998 Cleveland The post-it note on this Fuji PRO 120 said “Astros at Indians 6-27-1998.”…

The Wild Bunch and Good Morning Vietnam on Sacramento TV

The Label Lied VHS-2026-292 showed up with a handwritten sleeve: “Alice in Wonderland / A Christmas Carol /…

Festival of Flowers Souvenir Tape from the Biltmore Estate

Not every tape in the archive is six hours of tornado coverage or a missing military documentary. Sometimes…

South Philly Italian Style, WHYY Documentary from 1997

Bobby Rydell hosts. WHYY production. 1997. “A Serenade to the Cultural Capital of Philadelphia’s Italian-American Community.” One hour.…

Super Bowl XXIII Bengals vs 49ers WLWT Cincinnati Broadcast

Super Bowl XXIII. January 22, 1989. Joe Montana drives 92 yards in the final minutes and the Bengals…

Travel the World: Italy, Venice and Florence by Questar

Questar Home Video. “As seen on Public Television.” Hosted by Gladys Rankin. Venice and Florence, two hours, original…

Morning Exchange, Arsenio and AFV on Cleveland TV in 1990

Six hours of February 1990 Cleveland television, recorded by someone who had absolutely no respect for commercial breaks,…

Storm of the Century ABC Broadcast from Columbus 1999

The tape sat in a mismatched MGM sleeve. Fuji T-120 HQ inside. Six hours in EP mode. The…

History of the Hurricane Hunters 1942-1991 Military Documentary

On June 30, 1991, the U.S. Air Force deactivated the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron after nearly five decades…

The Bus and Us: All About School Bus Safety

Six minutes and forty-two seconds. Ohio Department of Public Safety catalog number HSY #0077. A kid explains to…

SNL Specials, Victory Garden and Motorweek from 1991-92 TV

A blank Fuji PRO from the Sunbury Collection. No label. No hint. Six hours of EP-mode tape with…

April 1999 Cleveland TV with Tornado Coverage and Peter Jennings

April 9, 1999. 4:52 in the morning. An F4 tornado cuts through Blue Ash, Ohio with winds over…

Touring Scotland with Gladys Rankin by Questar Home Video

Before YouTube travel vlogs, before streaming documentaries, before you could pull up a drone shot of Loch Lomond…

Yankee Candle Retail Construction 1983 Internal Video

The label is handwritten. It reads “Used @ home store opening” and “Yankee Candle Retail Construction 1983-.” Thats…

25 Years of Candlemaking from Candle Country Video

A tape about 25 years of making candles showed up in a plain white cardboard sleeve with no…

The Standard Deviants: Twisted World of Trigonometry Part 2

The Standard Deviants had a whole system. Show up in a sketch, explain a concept, disappear. Repeat for…