BONUS: Let's Talk About Video Stores and the VHS Era

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a bonus episode originally recorded for our Patreon, Keith, Scott, and Tasha got together to talk through their recollections, fond and otherwise, of VHS and the video-store era, from misleading box art and unrated oddities to tracking knobs and rewinder machines. The cassettes and stores themselves may be gone (mostly — shout out to Madison’s Four Star Video Rental!), but the memories live on, though they may have gotten a little fuzzy from too many pauses and rewinds. Enjoy the hit of nostalgia, and come back next week for our next proper pairing: Terrence Malick’s BADLANDS and Luca Guadagnino’s BONES AND ALL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:18.0	or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	129 at McDonald's gets you a mini
0:33.7	Oreo McFlurry
0:34.6	129 on a big night out
0:37.4	gets you...
0:38.5	Sorry, no trainers.
0:41.3	McDonald's save a menu.
0:43.1	Actually get your money's worth.
0:45.9	From 11am, price and participation may vary.
0:48.7	Price varies on delivery.
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