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Video Cover Art: films under 'Q'

July 27, 2010, 3:38 am

Do you have any VHS artwork that you'd like to contribute to our galleries? Please email them to post@videocultures.posterous.com. See the full gallery on Posterous If you own the copyright to any of...

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Video Cover Art: films under 'R'

July 28, 2010, 1:36 am

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Video Cover Art: films under 'S'

July 28, 2010, 8:25 am

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Late rental charges on VHS

July 28, 2010, 9:10 am

My sister rented the film The Craft upon its video release, and then lent it to her friend. A day later, they both fell out and her friend refused to return the tape. My Mom and Dad didn’t know about...

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Video Cover Art: films under 'T'

July 29, 2010, 1:40 am

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Video Cover Art: films under 'U'

July 30, 2010, 12:51 am

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Video Cover Art: films under 'V'

August 2, 2010, 1:29 am

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Video Cover Art: films under 'W'

August 3, 2010, 12:21 am

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We need your video shop memories!

August 4, 2010, 12:40 am

Well it's mid-week, so to get your weary brains ticking, we thought we'd put out a call for your video shop memories. If you have answers to any of the following questions, email your responses to...

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Video Cover Art: films under 'X'

August 4, 2010, 2:49 am

Do you have any VHS artwork that you'd like to contribute to our galleries? Please email them to post@videocultures.posterous.com. See the full gallery on Posterous If you own the copyright to any...

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Video Cover Art: films under 'Y'

August 4, 2010, 2:52 am

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Video answers

August 4, 2010, 12:44 pm

Thanks to Karen for answering our recent batch of questions! What was your local video shop called? 'Video Den' in my hometown (Va), 'Photoplay' and 'Kim's' were the ones I used as an adult, and then...

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Video Cover Art: films under 'Z'

August 7, 2010, 12:22 am

This is the final post in our video cover art series! Do you have any VHS artwork that you'd like to contribute to our galleries? Please email them to post@videocultures.posterous.com. See the full...

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Even more video shop memories

October 26, 2010, 4:24 am

Many thanks to Dave from Cardiff for this response. Please keep the contributions coming. Do you have any memories of video shops? Morriston near Swansea was where I grew up , and my main memory is...

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A Collection of VCRs

October 27, 2010, 1:10 am

Here is a video I found recommened on digg.com recently. So far, we have made many mentions about collections about video tapes but what about collections of VCR's? This chap appears to have quite...

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Video Cultures: Formulating Research into Video Shop Culture

December 13, 2010, 4:33 am

Introduction One cannot underestimate the significance that the video rental shop had for those who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s. After numerous discussions between the authors about the role...

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Music VHS Tapes

December 14, 2010, 5:43 am

Thanks to Rob from the Home of Metal for bringing this to our attention. Greg Moffit talks about collecting Black Sabbath VHS tapes. Never Say Die - Black Sabbath live concert video by Home of...

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VHS is the new vinyl

February 4, 2011, 9:29 am

Earlier today I stumbled across this online article taken from The Boston Phoenix. In this article, Michael Neel sees VHS as the new vinyl, being surprised by the high prices that a number of old...

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