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RED PROPELLER, INC. and PROJECT GET REEL Launch VHS Online Store THE LAST REWIND! Plus, Insight on How They Are Handling their Massive Amount of Home Recorded VHS Material!

RED PROPELLER, INC. and PROJECT GET REEL Launch VHS Online Store THE LAST REWIND! Plus, Insight on How They Are Handling their Massive Amount of Home Recorded VHS Material!

A little over two years ago in March of 2015, Lunchmeat ran an article exploring the Canadian-based endeavor called PROJECT GET REEL: an initiative that aimed to collect, dismantle and recycle some 2.26 billion unwanted and abandoned VHS tapes overflowing in The Great White North, with intentions to keep them out of the landfill and protect the environment from the plastics and poisonous chemicals that coat those reels of magnetic magic. It’s an honorable endeavor indeed, but the project aroused an important question among VHS collectors and media preservationists alike: what about the copious amounts of assorted cultural material still...

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