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VHS-centric Documentary CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM Receives Widespread Release Through PBS! Available Streaming on PBS.com RIGHT NOW Until January 18th!
For all the Videovores who’ve been hanging out in Lunchmeat Land for an extended amount of analog-lovin’ time, you’re VHSure to recall an extensive interview with London-based Romanian filmmaker IIinca Calugareanu all about her journey to capture the incredible story of Irina Nestor a magnetic magic movement that helped provide a taste of freedom to a highly oppressed Romanian people through the power of pirated home video tapes. A look at some of the master tapes from the underground VHS operation detailed in CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM. But if you’re not familiar with this incredible story, groove on over to...
Filmmakers Mark Williams and Darren J. Perry Discuss Their Documentary VHS FOREVER? PSYCHOTRONIC PEOPLE and Offer a Look at the History of UK VHS Collecting Culture and Anecdotal Insight on the Video Nasty Scandal!
Some of the more culturally current Tapeheads are probably familiar with the relatively recent release of the VHS-centric documentaries that have helped fuel a rush of rewind-inclined nostalgia over the past couple of years. Josh Johnson’s format-focused, VHS vindicating creation Rewind This! and the Lunchmeat co-produced , collector-centric Adjust Your Tracking have together offered audiences a well-rounded look at the format in both retrospective and contemporary cultural senses while featuring a stupendous stack of fantastic video releases from the US - but what about the video collectors of the UK? Surely with the Video Nasty scandal of the early 80s,...