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Video Store Memories and a pic from K-mart
Long before Blockbuster became the scourge of the video world, we had stores like Video World, Movie Mart, Video-To-Go, AVN American Video Network with 16, 000 (milliontrillionbazillion) movies! And many, many others. It wasn't unusual for them to hold some sort of local event or meet and greet.
These were taken at a Movie Gallery, if memory serves, where my buddy, Justin, and I were brought to an almost certainly unlicensed visit by a certain popular extraterrestrial. Also, Billy Bob of Showbiz Pizza fame was there, but that's a discussion for another day.
In my early youth I had thoughts of being a scientist or an astronaut, mostly to create and/or befriend an alien. After I saw E.T. though, that changed. I didn't like the way they treated E.T., but I still wanted create and befriend aliens. So I got into special effects.
When I was 11, my friends and I were regularly dropped off at the Fashion Square mall. Across the street there was a theatrical make-up store that also had magic tricks and masks and how-to books and mags. It was called Paramount (until the cease and desist) and I ended up making friends with the owner, Madge. She hooked me up with a special effects guy she knew, Allen Duckworth. I ended up spending the day at his house one day and he showed me how to make eye mechanisms and hand mechanisms and different things in his workshop. Then he showed me his little gallery of monster suits and puppets. And guess who was hanging there...
It was E.T.
Allen was the scientist guy holding E.T. at the Movie Gallery! The synchronicity still blows my mind and warms my heart.
And just today I found out that he later went on to do some set construction for a 1988 straight to VHS that is a featured Best of the Worst favorite of mine called... Christmas With Dennis.
The Polaroid looking picture was taken at my local K-mart. This E.T. was a mask, gloves, and sheet type, closer in quality to the creepy ass Easter Bunny I loved that also visited K-mart and was quite possibly the same employee.
1990.
every single video store children's section was packed with these
Your Own Hall of Fame: Alex Ross Perry on "Videoheaven" and "Pavements" - From Cinema Scope Magazine Cinema Scope - Cinema Scope
Scope: There’s a line that keeps popping up in Videoheaven: “The movies talk about themselves.” I like this a lot, and it’s interesting that a filmmaker like Brian De Palma was ahead of the curve in assessing the symbolic or semiotic potency of the video-store space, whereas later on it served mostly as a backdrop for romantic comedies. It was a way to hint that the characters had inner lives, and taste, but rarely to the point where they genuinely talk about movies. It’s like a weird uncanny-valley thing: I remember always wondering what the characters on Friends would say about La Dolce Vita (1961), the poster for which is hanging in Monica’s apartment, or if the version of Die Hard (1988) they rented had actual profanity in it… Perry: Well, this is something that only people like us would ever think about. If they rent Die Hard on Friends, but then Bruce Willis appears in a later season as Ross’ girlfriend’s father, in this world, is there simply a guy who looks like Willis and has his mannerisms, and so on? And has he ever seen Die Hard? This question is of course made text in Last Action Hero (1993), with the Stallone Terminator 2 (1991) gag. To say nothing of the now well-known and HD-enhanced fact that on Seinfeld, Jerry owns Child’s Play 2 (1991) and Arachnophobia (1990) on VHS, along with Pretty Woman (1990), which stars Jason Alexander…I’m reading too much into all this, but so would a De Palma character. But the arc you’re describing is, I think, evident in the chronological story we tell. In the ’80s, in Body Double or Video Violence (1987), the space of the store is intrinsic to the story being told. By the ’90s, the video store was so common that it could stand in for any neighbourhood errand, and as time went on, depictions reveled in cinephilia a lot more. So even though a lot of the later movies I cite are quite poor, they are almost entirely about characters who seem to love movies and really, truly want to work in a video store in the 2000s. The narrative basically shifts from the ’90s to the 2000s from being largely about customers to largely about clerks.
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Writing Is Lonely But Here Is What Screenwriters Need To Know - Collin Watts
Watch the video interview on YouTube here.
Various Horror Sections At Video rental Stores.
Home to one of the largest publicly accessible collections of physical media, Scarecrow Video is a destination point for film fanatics.
Please Help Scarecrow Video
Seattle, WA's Scarecrow Video is one of the largest video stores in the U.S. if not the world. They have over 140,000 titles on DVD, VHS, blu-ray and laserdisc. They are especially noteworthy for the amount of rare and hard-to-find titles they have. About 10 years ago they become a non-profit. In addition to being a brick-and-mortar rental store for physical media, they also do rental-by-mail and they sell a great deal of their movies online too. They even carry my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66 on DVD in their store.
When I made my short documentary Video Visions about one of the last video rental superstores in upstate NY, we actually made reference to Scarecrow and addressed the need for physical media outlets like Scarecrow and Video Visions as a gateway to film history. There are hundreds of thousands of movies that are only available on physical media. You would seriously be surprised how few movies released before 1990 are available on Netflix. While streaming may be convenient, physical media provides access to countless movies you can only see on VHS or DVD or a bit torrent ripped from those. In recent years we have lost a lot of longstanding video stores like Family Video, which shut down it's entire chain. Scarecrow is now struggling and needs your help.
I highly encourage you to give what you can to Scarecrow here. I myself just donated!
The link above is the article from Indiewire (reprinted from The Seattle Times).