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...
VHS Tape Archive
Preserving broadcast history, one tape at a time. 672 tapes cataloged, with 117 currently browsable online: local TV, lost commercials, corporate training, mystery recordings, and forgotten broadcasts from 1979 through the mid-2000s.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...