ITT we talk about the weird vhs tapes we had when we were younger.
Actually had a few of these compilation tapes, this one and an other one I think had a Casper short and the other one a Superman short. I actually watched the shit out of these, I loved the classic toons when I was younger. My one friend had all these Betty Boop tapes and I would go over to his house and watch them all the time. Actually we had the Betty Boop tape where she tries to go on vacation because of all the city noise.
So, what odd vhs tapes do you remember watching the shit out of?
I had a VHS of a German dub of Sport Billy which I watched a lot in my earliest years. A casual jewtube search reveals it to be a rather cheap cartoon, but I seem to remember some things.
On a more quality note back when I was about six dad rented a cartoon for me to watch while I was sick with the flu, and many, many years later I stumbled upon it again. It was this:
Each cartoon, as usual for a PD cartoon tape, was in shit-tier condition (not to say the cartoons were bad, it was the film quality).
Soon after the last cartoon's abrupt end, I heard some weird sound, like a kind of whisper. Then the tape stopped and it got rewound.
That's it.
Easton Cox
I had this one that had some kind of stop motion sand creatures. They build up this huge town and then a storm comes and whips it all away.
It was that among so many other things. But I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called.
Aaron Jenkins
Nice
Juan Gutierrez
I kinda horde stuff so I have a few but Sup Forums related I have a VHS of a bunch of episodes of Dino Riders taped. Almost worn out
I also have a copy of Flight of Dragons I bought when I was an adult. Couldn't get it on DVD and doubt you can these days, or I would probably buy it again.
Andrew Morgan
I had an official tape without a box of some really old merrie melodies, i remember one short was Daffy Duck screwing around in a hospital, another one had something to do with fishing. I lost it when I was a kid because I was retarded
Ryan Gomez
Don't remember the name of the series or company, but I had two VHS tapes from them where the back listed all these cartoons and half of them weren't even on the tape. I remember one had Droopy as either someone in the circus or a bullfighter on the box and the other had Woody Woodpecker going over a waterfall in a barrel. Neither of these tapes had Droopy or Woody Woodpecker cartoons on them.
Jayden Cook
Sounds like a scene in The Adventures of Mark Twain called "The Mysterious Stranger".
It's most definitely something else. the key word was sand. I've seen the mysterious stranger, good stuff but not what this was at all.
Logan Lewis
Damn you're good. This was definitely one of them.
Adam Rodriguez
The good old "recorded directly from TV" tapes where you'd have weird art-house movies your parents watched before your own movie so you had to wind the tape to the correct mark. Also, you'd get the odd 80s commercial break.
This one has the Woody Woodpecker tape you were thinking of.
Aaron Butler
I had an orange Little Bear tape. I guess I wouldn't call it weird, but those orange Nickelodeon tapes were cool.
Bentley Wood
Yes it was.
Alexander Lopez
Also I feel compelled to check this.
Charles Miller
>like a kind of whisper Did most VHS tapes have this? I definitely remember some of my tapes had this "whisper" at the end before it completely stopped.
Angel White
I remember hearing something like a phone dialing sound at the end of a lot of my tapes. It was very faint and I'd have to bring my ear up to the speaker, though.
Hudson Kelly
Is humpty dumpty /ourguy/? Sextuples confirms
Jaxson Sullivan
>a lazy, rotund man that dresses up as a child and doesn't do what others tell him until it's too late and he's a broken shell lying in a puddle of his own sticky, white goo
It checks out.
Wyatt Perry
"The Sand Castle", NFB Oscar winner, 1976
John Murphy
I had a couple over the years. The crown jewel of which was a 6-hour tape of an assortment of Looney Tunes, Famous Studios, Fleischer, and a few various shorts that are probably in public domain. The tape oddly enough had the same shorts I found on other tapes, in the exact same order no less. The tape was clearly a recording; it still had that tab on the side that could allow you to record over it. I found out the hard way when I recorded over a couple of places (the MM "An Itch in Time" and a couple of Casper cartoons).
I had the same on a couple of them. Strangely enough it happened on a few legit tapes (Disney Classics) at the beginning.
Logan Adams
>The tape was clearly a recording; it still had that tab on the side that could allow you to record over it. I had a LOT of public domain cartoon tapes like this. A sure sign that whoever put them out clearly didn't give two shits about quality.
Liam Cruz
Don't want to dig it out of my basement now but I have the first 2 or 3 M.A.S.K. episodes on VHS in German
Gavin Watson
Despite the quality, it was pretty amazing to see which old toons fell victim to the Public Domain tape craze. Like the Fleischer Superman shorts. I think even some Chuck Jones stuff got compromised.
Not only that, the conpanies really did not give two shits what they threw on these tapes together. Just look at the roster on OP's case. I actually had the same tape. I could at least make some sense of why the first three would go together but then Brave Molly came on and even as a kid I thought "what the fuck am I watching?" I usuallu turned it off after getting my fill of the good stuff. I still sing that song in the Mild West.
Tyler Reyes
I remember having a VHS compilation of all sorts of old Public domain cartoons. Among them was one of the "censored eleven" shorts called "All This and Rabbit Stew."
I had this VHS tape with a really early, terrible CGI Christmas Special. I believe it was from 1996, because the box even had the nerve to say something like "Just Like Toy Story" or some shit. I saw it again at a thrift store a while back and regret not getting it.
I'm not thinking of Rhapsody Street Kids. That was worse.
Jacob Davis
Oh god damn I know exactly what you're talking about but can't remember the title right now. They used to sell the tapes of it on the discount movie rack in the Quik Chek
Oliver Walker
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Luis Mitchell
I don't think I've ever met anyone who's seen this.
Xavier Martin
I don't think the tapes I had were weird, but I do like remembering them fondly.
Alexander Cruz
This shit was the best random vhs tape.
Christopher Ross
Why does the front label say Berenstain, while the side label says Berenstein?
Alexander Reyes
I had the book as a kid. It was always funny because my younger brother was named Alex.
Jayden Sullivan
Because he posted it specifically to bait that question. Or maybe you did, and are now samefagging about it.
Hudson Morris
I had a Thomas the Tank Engine vhs that had some kind of weird audio error on it in one of the episodes. This must've been something with every copy because I was able to find a clip of it on youtube.
I guess this was audio from when they were filming that scene that ended up in the finished episode somehow? Weirded me out as a kid.
Josiah Phillips
I had the disney Reluctant Dragon short on vhs. But just the animated short. I had no idea it was also part of a longer featurelength film about the animation process until much later. Which is probably for the best because I doubt I would've enjoyed sitting through the whole thing as a kid.
Zachary Gonzalez
I had a tape of some cartoon set in Africa. I think it was made by actual africans. My mom says it was the only cartoon I watched for two years straight
Joseph Wright
Was it this?
James Nguyen
Holy shit yeah. Was there a sequel or something?
Landon Gomez
Kind of reminds me when a voice outtake accidentally got left in the final version of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
Yeah, I think there are two Kirikous. It's by this Michel Ocelot guy. He generally does pretty good stuff.
Zachary Martin
I always wondered where in Africa it was set.
Owen Myers
Somewhere in West Africa, according to wikipedia. Apparently the original dub was recorded in Dakar.
Josiah Davis
The guy that made the score is a Senegalese politician
Jace Hernandez
I bought this at a video store fire sale when I was at about 9 or 10, expecting a cool movie about robot ninjas. What I got was an extremely low-budget, hyperviolent proto-"Kick-Ass" chock full of rape, murder and gunbarrels going through eyesockets which left me a little bit traumatized.
Apparently it's a borderline lost film because the director hated it movie so much he refused to allow it to be released on DVD. It now survives in the form of a dozen of VHS tapes scattered across the world. I still got mine.
Juan Butler
My grandmother was a dentist and she sent this awful short film to me as a child. Wouldn't be surprised if it's buried with all of the other VHS tapes at my parents' place.
Lucas Ross
I had a Batman Beyond on tape, but it was in another language. We literally found it in my grandpa's basement and since he's dead we'll never know its story
Caleb Morgan
>I bought this at a video store fire sale when I was at about 9 or 10, expecting a cool movie about robot ninjas. What I got was an extremely low-budget, hyperviolent proto-"Kick-Ass" chock full of rape, murder and gunbarrels going through eyesockets which left me a little bit traumatized. >Apparently it's a borderline lost film because the director hated it movie so much he refused to allow it to be released on DVD. It now survives in the form of a dozen of VHS tapes scattered across the world. I still got mine. clearly you need to rip it and put it onto the internet to help preserve it
I remember basically nothing of it, though I do remember enough for the summary to make sense. (In particular the scene briefly mentioned with the guy on the railway line rescuing a weed.)
Technically Anime, but I won't tell anyone if you won't.
Benjamin Perry
Saw these in elementary school.
Thomas Scott
>that art style >that folk tale Your parents must have fucking dreaded when you wanted to watch this. I hope they're not teetotalers.
You just reminded me of a VHS that my parents used to put on that had a bunch of live-action nursery rhymes, though. It was from the 80's or 90's and iirc super cheesy. Wish I could find it, but all I'm seeing from google are picture books and those weird ass superhero youtube vids.
Hudson Gonzalez
Buy a vhs ripper device or send it to Red Letter Media. Do both.
Eli Barnes
Still got Ziggy's Gift around in the good ol' VHS collection.
As for things I watched the shit out of. Well, there were many, including Disney Sing Along Songs tapes, 101 Dalmatians, Goofy's All-Star Olympics, and Donald in Mathmagic Land.
Sebastian Cooper
Four (or maybe it was six) solid hours of anime-fried fairy tales and fables, from the super hilarious to the super depressing (link related)
Looking back, I have to wonder how public domain these cartoons (well, anime, but you get what I'm saying) really were, or if this was some form of grey market/bootleg deal.
Brayden Morgan
Donald in Mathmagic Land is Patrician tier Disney.
I actually remember having a tape like this, it had one of the dubbed anime versions of the seven kids and the wolf.
I had (still do in the attic I think) a VHS of the first three episodes of street sharks. It wasn't airing anymore by the time I found the tape so until I decided to look online I thought that's all there ever was. Still little me was obsessed with it.
Also I can't remember if it was a vhs or just a tv show but I remember watching a Hello Kitty cartoon when I was very little and everyone else in my house denied its existence, including my mom who was with me when I watched it.
Wyatt Thomas
I used to have this, actually. Gave it to a family member when I was downsizing my VHS collection.
Luke Ward
midnite bump
Aiden Thomas
Man, I swear to god we watched this particular tape about 3-5 times in elementary school. From time to time, I still get that fucking "Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines" song stuck in my head. If I recall correctly, none of the songs in this were even Disney related, so like what's the point?
Angel Campbell
I think I know that particular humoty dumpty cartoon. If my memory is correct humpty dumpty wanted a piece of the sun so he built his wall tall enough to reach it but then it came tumbling down
Robert Allen
I distinctly remember having a VHS of this. I don't remember if this was ever released on VHS or if it was a recording though.
John Walker
RIP Ringling
William Murphy
That's the one. It's been years since I've seen it but IIRC it was pretty horrifying when he finally reached the sun.
Aiden Foster
Oddly enough there's a whole bunch of these cartoons that I recall having VHS dubbed in Korean that I used to watch. There was the humpty dumpty one. One where a king was paranoid of getting "shot". One with bees, another with ants. One with a cuckoo clock bird wanting to be a real bird. I forget some of them, like I think there was also one with a seal and one with a mouse going to a circus? There's just so many that I'm starting to recall now
Hudson Ortiz
OKAY I KNOW YOU GUYS CAN FIND THIS
It might've been two separate tapes, but it was a collection of animated shorts that I think were vaguely christmas themed. One was about Jack Frost turning fall into winter. Another was about some puppies. That's literally all I remember.
Have fun.
Lincoln Roberts
My poor fucking parents. I'm pretty sure they pretended to lose the tape.
Grayson Morgan
We had a VHS with animations put to music by Paul and Linda McCartney. The first bit, which we watched repeatedly, was Rupert and the Frog Song. Later on the tape, however, was a trippy-ass music video for a song called "Oriental Nightfish." Get that behind your face.
Blake Scott
There were a ton of those public domain Christmas cartoon compilations, most of them with the same few cartoons, but the two shorts you mentioned are Jack Frost (1934) and Hector's Hectic Life.
Probably this one then.
Andrew Jones
collection of black and white looney tunes cartoons one was set in a bookstore but it wasnt book revue or have you got any castles. it had the same opening music as book revue though youtu.be/VyuRHWnBkSc?t=32 another had this really adventurous black duckling try sail out into the ocean but then a storm hits another had daffy duck on trial for killing some other duck's egg
if anyone knows which looney tunes these are please help
Matthew Robinson
I used to have a bunch of obscure British cartoons on tape, would’ve been the late 90s/early 00s so it was a while after they'd been on TV. Marvin in particular was pretty odd, seemed like a couple of pilots for a show that was never made. Also had a few compilations of American public domain shorts, including one with a colourised version of The Impatient Patient and another with a knockoff Mickey Mouse short called The Office Boy.
When I was a kid I had a huge crossover of cartoons, it was some kind of anti vice campaign, or some shit like that. I was super fan of Garfield and TMNT when I was a kid, so I treasured that shit a lot. Lost the VHS when I moved to another city, and could never find it in any store. Years later, I heard something like Jim Davis didn't gave the rights to use Garfield or something like that, so tapes were hard to come by.
Jack Walker
I think this is what you're looking for?
Also I'm looking for a tape. It starred some weird creature (hippo thing?) off on an adventure with his flying mouse friend. All I can remember is that one of those characters is named Muffy, and it's been impossible to search for because of arthur.
I had this one. Check out the godawful rap at 13 minutes in, as well as the cool footage of old Tomorrowland that follows shortly after. Before the central tower and track became dead empty space.
Leo Sanders
Oh yeah I remember this shit! Had to bring the colors back to the lady's suit or whatever
Josiah Taylor
I had a big ugly black case with an unmarked tape. On the tape was a cartoon about a wolf chasing a rabbit through a construction site and then during the olympic games.
Then yeeears later I found out about Nu Pogodi through Sup Forums!
And Disney's Robin Hood and Beauty and the Beast... I watched those more than anything.
I recognise Astro Farm and Portland Bill! I think Gran too.
Luke Thomas
I love this video. Not for the music, but it's like an official unintentional time capsule of when 90s Disney gave zero fucks and filmed at Disneyland all the time.
Elijah Perez
I remember I saw the that was just about the train and the crossover one where all the Wee Sing characters got on the train and had a party in the forest.
Adam Walker
morning bump
Nolan White
I had two Fleischer Studios' tapes of cartoons, I remember this cartoon most of all.
I remember all the Fleischer stuff because it was always the cheap cartoons that were in the bargain bin for years at grocery stores and Wal-Mart. My parents bought one of their tapes full of holiday specials.
And I think they were the cheap cartoons to have appear on other shows like Pee Wee's Playhouse
Not sure if related, but you reminded me of this one.
Aaron Perez
I still have a tape of the super mario brothers super show
Nathan Kelly
Did it involve Moomins?
Christopher Price
I'm actually not sure, I tried searching some Moomin stuff already but it may have been Moomins.
Also, nice trips.
Dylan Rivera
The little bear's "I'm a grizzly bear!" just hit me with nostalgia. I had this on vhs too at one point.
Robert Sullivan
It's always nice for me to be reminded that Astro Farm WASN'T just a bizarre fever dream I had. I watched the shit out of that as a kid. I remember Raggy Dolls too.
