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Found a weird tape labeled 'July 4th 1998' at a yard sale in Akron
I was digitizing it last week and the screen just filled with static about 15 minutes in... like, thick black and white snow with a low hum. I let it run and after 3 minutes of that, it cut to a shot of an empty backyard at night with a single lit sparkler on the ground. The date on the tape was for daytime, so that felt off. Has anyone else had a tape switch content like that halfway through?
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simonw412mo ago
Totally get that feeling of finding something off. I swear old tech just does weird stuff sometimes. My old VCR used to eat tapes and spit out bits of other shows mixed in, like a cooking program would have 30 seconds of a baseball game from 1992 in the middle. Makes you wonder what gets left behind on all that magnetic tape, like ghosts in the machine lol.
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Used to think that static was just a broken tape. That sparkler shot after the hum though, that's a whole different vibe. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in old footage.
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