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Originally Posted by pac.attack76 (Post 3131460)

Rescued these from the trash complete with sleeves:

The Birdcage (Robin Williams)
The Best of Andy Griffith
My Man Godfrey (William Powell 1936)
Benny & Joon (Johnny Depp 1993)
The Alamo Thirteen Days to Glory (Alec Baldwin)
Batman Returns (Michael Keaton)
Maverick (Mel Gibson)
The Deep End of the Ocean (Michelle Pfeiffer)
Mr. Baseball (Tom Selleck)
Big Jim McLain (John Wayne 1952)
Body Heat (William Hurt 1981)
Clambake (Elvis 1967)
Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers 1963)
Rope (James Stewart 1948/renewed 1975)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Peter Cushing 1959/renewed 1986)
Santa Clause 2 (Tim Allen)
The Front Page (Pat O'Brien 1931)
Where the River Flows North (Rip Torn)
G.I. Joe Volume 7 Countdown for Zartan (1985)
I Love Lucy Volume 5 (1955)
Black Adder III Part 1 (1989)
Throw Momma from the Train (Danny DeVito 1987)
The Three Stooges Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Overboard (Goldie Hawn 1987)
Empire of the Sun (John Malkovich 1987)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Magnum Force (Clint Eastwood 1973)
The Court Jester (Danny Kaye 1955)
Ed Gein (2001)
Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin 1992)
The Crimson Pirate (Burt Lancaster 1952)
Strangers When We Meet (Kirk Douglas 1960/renewed 1988)

The only movie that I have, of all the movies shown, is Ed Gein!
I didn't remember seeing it or when it was made.
Living in Wisconsin, all my life, he was in the news when I was in the seventh grade and a few jokes went around about it. :D
I just ran the the tape again yesterday. It seemed to be made by some small time producer and I didn't recognize any of the actors.

Back out today and bought:

Beethoven
The Abyss
Joy Ride
Biloxi Blues
Scream
Next Friday

At Kutztown BIN I paid $1 for three bankers boxes full of someone's off-cable VHS collection. About 90 in all. Mostly T120's and a bunch of T160's that look unused. The few I have looked through are typical 6hr recording format from TVland shows. And a few PBS musical specials. They seem to be from the late 80's. More to browse through but if nothing else, I got a ton of reusable tapes. Maybe I will record Letterman's last shows on VHS for fun.

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Originally Posted by Dave A (Post 3133400)

At Kutztown BIN I paid $1 for three bankers boxes full of someone's off-cable VHS collection..

Jeez....Not much value in old miscellaneous recorded tapes, about 1¢ ea! I have probably 10-15 of those bankers boxes full. Most S-VHS.

How true. I've went to some local estate sales on 'everything must go' day and filled some paper shopping bags (1$ for a bag of anything you put in it) with tapes.

The last movie I got was THE DREAM TEAM (1989) -- This one IS NOT DIGITALLY RECORDED and looks (to me) 100% better! (And the audio is better also)

The original MCA release (1989) is DIGITALLY RECORDED and its sad really!!

I last got a DEMO tape of 'Six days seven nights' (1998)

Most recently, I purchased two secondhand movies on VHS tapes from a thrift store: Ocean's Eleven (the "remake") and Rain Main.

I was going to make the effort to haul out the 30 year old Zenith 13" table TV and Penney's 2 head VCR, but at least for Ocean's Eleven, I just watched on a Toshiba DVD/VHS combo rescued from the curb a few years ago, and a Panasonic 42" plasma TV because both were set up and ready to go.

The upscaler in the Panasonic TV did an impressive job.

Just picked up:
Harriet the Spy Nickelodeon
Goosebumps The Haunted Mask II

And off the record, i'm particularly excited about my laser disc find. A 3 piece ox set of Sean Connery James Bond 007. Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Paid record price since they didn't know what it was and stuck it on the record rack. About 25 or 50 cents near mint.:banana:

I struck gold yesterday @ my friends video store!!! (Last week he got about 200 more tapes in!!)

I got these

1) Jaws 3 - 1983 (Original 1983 release (MCA home video))
2) The Pursuit of DB Cooper - 1981 (Original 1982 release (MCA Videocassette))
3) Friday the 13th - 1980 (Original release (Not sure of the year (Paramount home video))) *3
4) On Golden Pond - 1981 (Original 1982 release (20th Century Fox)) *4

*3 - I have a 2000 release of this now (Was looking for the ACTUAL FIRST RELEASE for awhile)

*4 - I have a 1984 copy now .. was looking for the FIRST RELEASE for awhile..

Yesterday I got 2 movies :)

1) The Island - 1980
2) Friday the 13th Part 3 - 1982

Yesterday I got these :)

1) Fail safe - 1964
2) Mountain family robinson - 1979

Don't remember the last tape I purchased, but right now dubbing "Days Of Wine And Roses", the 1958 TV production with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. The recording was originally made as a kinescope on film, and the artifacts are certainly visible. It adds to the 'charm". Almost as good as a video tape original.
Kevin

I dont know if buying blank VHS tapes for time shifting and recording shows for keepers is legit for this topic but I picked up a batch from Walmart last week which I get them say about two times a month there.

Around the beginning of the year .I got some self recorded tapes from my neighbor with movies and some TV shows on them.

Yup it surely is my friend!!!

Congrats on your blank tape purchase :) (I reckon you will put something on them s00n)