Oldest VHS Tape in Your Collection

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Roadgeek 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 3048	First of all, I want to say I'm very excited about having a dedicated VHS forum here at Retro Junk. I could write a whole book on my VHS memories. I was just wondering what your oldest VHS tape is? Mine is a home video of my family reunion from May 1986 (my cousin taped it). Very freaky to see your own family in action before you were born.
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The 1979 inital release of True Grit
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Old music videos from the 80's I recorded when they first came out.
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VHSer 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 687 User Mod	My oldest would probably be two tapes of stuff that I taped off of tv back in 1985 or so. I'm pretty sure that they still play, but I haven't watched them in a few years. Another one of my earliest ones is the tape that has the 1985 tv movie of Alice In Wonderland (the best version, in my opinion) and the He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special.

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Mezase Master 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 9096	A Return of the Jedi VHS from the original home release.
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areyouakegger 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 1805	I believe I have one from around 1982 or 1983.
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LOL785 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 1250	If my knowledge of my family history is correct, my family didn't get a VHS player until 1994. Before that, we had ( and still have ) a Betamax. Oldest, in no real order. VHS: 1992-Mickey's Sing-A-Long Christmas songs ( store bought) 1989-Legend of Zelda-The Ringer & and SMBSS-Count Koopula ( bought last year) 1993-Captain N-Gameboy ( Store bought) 1994-Great Mouse Detective ( taped from Disney Channel ) Betamax: Pete Townshend Concert in London-1985 Fleetwood Mac-1985ish
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blueluigi 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 4039 Account Disabled	The oldest that I have would probably be the recording of Transformers that I have that was taped off TV in 1986. That is, unless you count the three bootleg tapes of Dungeons and Dragons that I bought at a flea market which pretty much features some individual episodes from it's airings on CBS.

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Mezase Master 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 9096	Yeah, to be fair I only got that RotJ VHS a few years ago, oldest one we had before was a Wizard of Oz tape from the mid-80s. That's because that was when my parents got married, so only my grandparents have anything older.
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Deleted 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 54340	I've still got a few old VHS tapes from my childhood with stuff that my mom had taped off of TV for me. I know for a fact that one of them is from 1986, because it still has the TV commercials on it, and there's a commercial for "An American Tail" being in theaters. Still, I think one of the other tapes is older than that. I suspect it's from 1985.

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Pinface 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 1504	retromaniac wrote: I've still got a few old VHS tapes from my childhood with stuff that my mom had taped off of TV for me. I know for a fact that one of them is from 1986, because it still has the TV commercials on it, and there's a commercial for "An American Tail" being in theaters. Still, I think one of the other tapes is older than that. I suspect it's from 1985. Maybe you should put An American Tail TV Spot on Youtube
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Casey_Jones 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 336	tough call. Do you mean the one I've Had the Longest? Which would be a 3 stooges live action/animated mix Or the one with the oldest footage?

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likecats 2 years 6 months ago Posts: 147	My oldest ones are Those Crazy Old Commercials and Celebrity Commercials (from Goodtimes) I got back in 1987 when I got my first VHS recorder.

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One Louder 2 years 6 months ago Posts: 842 Account Disabled	Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock and Roll Style, from MGM released 1983. I found it at a used book and video store in Toronto. It's a good documentary, they talk with several people like Don Everly from the Everly Brothers, the early 80's lineup of the Who when Kenney Jones was on drums, Grace Slick, Paul Weller, Brian Setzer and Malcom McLaren among others. At the end of the video there's several trailers, I can't remember all of them off hand, I know there's trailers for the Complete Beatles documentary from 1982, Pink Floyd's The Wall, a documentary on girl groups, the '82 Prince's Trust Concert, a film of the first three Secret Policeman's Ball Evening of Comedy and Music shows and a Carole King concert film. There's a few others too, I think it's over 10 minutes of trailers.

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fistoflegend
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Rosemary's baby which I just watched a month ago.
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Return to Boggy Creek circa 1983
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Pudgietheparrot 2 years 3 months ago Posts: 1511	The oldest I have dates back to around 1983. It was before I was born. My mom taped some programs off of TV like the old "Zola Levitt" show and there is also some home video footage on the tape from later on in the '80s.
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I think one of my oldest is a 1985 Flintstones movie/episode :S
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Wman96 1 year 8 months ago Posts: 34	Limited Gold Edition II Cartoon Classics (from 1985): An Officer and A Duck The 1985 initial Home Release of Pinocchio The Walt Disney Magic and Comedy Revue All are from 1985.

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areyouakegger 1 year 8 months ago Posts: 1805	I got rid of most of my VHS tapes a couple of months ago, although I think the oldest I had was from around 1982.
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