2007 Film Festival -- Interlude
Does anyone else remember the clip shows they used to have? This might have been back in the very late seventies, but more likely the early eighties? People would write in requests for bits of programs that they'd seen, and would like to see again -- this would be before video recorders were widely available, so that this was pretty much the only way to get to see something a second time. (Come to think of it, this was probably also very cheap television to produce. :) I only remember that this sort of program existed; I can't remember seeing any particular clip.
It's weird... there are a bunch of experiences that people don't have to put up with any more, like watching Due South on tapes that had been passed around and copied in communities, with random episodes missing and occasional old American advertising. Or copying computer games with a tape-to-tape cassette player. Heck, even making mix tapes for the car seems pretty rare, now.
I wonder how quaint YouTube will appear in twenty years time, or even ten?
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I'm not sure if I'm getting older, or the movies are getting longer -- or maybe it's this stomach bug that I've had for the past three or four days. Whatever it is, I'm starting to think that it will be a relief when Sunday rolls around.
It's weird... there are a bunch of experiences that people don't have to put up with any more, like watching Due South on tapes that had been passed around and copied in communities, with random episodes missing and occasional old American advertising. Or copying computer games with a tape-to-tape cassette player. Heck, even making mix tapes for the car seems pretty rare, now.
I wonder how quaint YouTube will appear in twenty years time, or even ten?
* * *
I'm not sure if I'm getting older, or the movies are getting longer -- or maybe it's this stomach bug that I've had for the past three or four days. Whatever it is, I'm starting to think that it will be a relief when Sunday rolls around.