I have several large Rubbermaid tubs stashed underneath my house containing my wife’s late father’s extensive VHS collection. Somehow I just can’t quite bear to throw them out, though I can’t imagine watching them either. Working in TV and spending much of my workdays watching my show in 4:4:4 on surprisingly expensive monitors makes it extra-hard to enjoy watching anything in standard-def, let alone on VHS. (shudder)
Man, talk about a first-world problem.
That said, I dug out our old 16mm projector on Friday, since someone at work had found a print of the 1944 version of Girl in the Case. We could only watch ten minutes or so of it since we didn’t have a take-up reel big enough to hold all of the first reel, and what we saw of the movie was perfectly awful, but it was pretty fun nonetheless. Just successfully threading up the film and discovering the sound bulb wasn’t burnt out after all were small triumphs that made the overall effort worthwhile.
