Technology has taken us from tapes to DVDs to digital streaming in just a few decades. But while a teenager today may have no idea what a VHS tape is, many of us who were around between 1977 and the ...
These days, video barely exists as a physical medium for most Americans. It streams in ultra high-quality through the air, like magic. For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles ...
Creative life has always been tough for an ambitious young band without much money, but it’s definitely gotten easier in recent years. These days, if you’re a group of musicians just out of your teens ...
David Nowell Smith is co-curator of 'Constructing Spaces', an installation and exhibition at the National Poetry Library, London Southbank. He has received funding from the British Academy and the ...
To Matthew Dix, VHS tapes are more than just products of the past. Instead of mourning the loss of Blockbuster video stores, Dix is bringing the '90s back by "physically recreating, as well as dubbing ...
The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape ...
The origin of Brian Donnelly’s collection can be traced back to a parking lot in 1987. “When I was 10, my parents took us to see ‘Adventures in Babysitting,’” he says. On the walk back to the car, his ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the kind of moment a researcher never forgets. I was in the British Film Institute archive and had just pressed play on a ...