To the editor: Wow, discuss nostalgia! This text stimulated my mind protoplasm into recollections of how I created my assortment of greater than 4,000 VHS video cassettes (“In a digital world, VHS tapes are cool again. Meet the crazy faithful, including my roommate,” April 23).
All of it started within the Nineteen Seventies, when video-recording expertise was first launched. I started to consider what I’d do once I grew to become an outdated, retired buzzard with all these nice films and TV exhibits vanished into the vault of eternity.
I made a decision to document my favorites and ran out to purchase a kind of thousand-dollar JVC VHS recorders. The plan was to attempt to simulate these outdated Nineteen Forties and Fifties film experiences, the place for 25 or 50 cents, you might watch a double function, perhaps some Warner Bros. cartoons, a newsreel and maybe an excerpt from a Republic Footage serial.
So I recorded films or TV exhibits, added shorts and generally there was room for a cartoon — all with none commercials.
My system had 20 classes of movies, together with household/classics (“The Wizard of Oz”), musicals (“Easter Parade” and “forty second Road”), battle (“The Longest Day”), sci-fi (“The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless”), horror (“Dracula” and “The Birds”) and westerns (“Shane” and “Excessive Midday”).
It’s nonetheless enjoyable to observe these outdated quick westerns with John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
Again within the olden days, you might stroll right into a movie show with all of the household and never fear about cringing over the intercourse, violence and vulgarity of contemporary films. Let’s all assist the VHS revolution!
Dick Owen, Huntington Seashore
