Paula Gordon
📼 6 tapes 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, including one that says "BOMB"
📼 3 tapes History of Rock 'n' Roll
📼 Homage to Chagall, The Music Man
📼 2001 Space Odyssey, The Man Who Fell to Earth
📼 Schindler's List
📼 The General -- Buster Keaton
📼 Charade, Billy Crystal
What do they all have in common?
My dad taped them off broadcast TV in the 1990s
Then there's 📼 Larry King -- Deep Throat Speaks, from 2006, which might have been me 😂
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Feb 21 at 4:33amWeb
Show threadPaula GordonFeb 21
There's something eerie abt watching the 1968 film *2001: A Space Odyssey* on a scratchy VHS cassette recorded off PBS in the 1990s on a vintage VCR attached to a flat screen TV in 2026.
I saw the film with my dad in a movie theater. If it was 1968, I would have been 7 years old. (What was he thinking?) I clearly remember the fetus in space at the end.
This time I was struck by the opening scenes of ape despair and the long space-time sequence late in the film. (TBH, I ff'd thru the middle.)