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So much for originality. Calling the film Bolero after using that piece in "10". One thing you can't hold against Mrs. Derek is her desire to show her breasts off and getting naked. Similar to Jenny Agutter. Just to make certain we don't lose a sense of what this thread is about, I do recommened a great Premium Collection title with Jenny, Logan's Run. Even though most of us have seen the film 25 million times.
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1975. Just a couple of wks away from Jaws being released. Shame I didn't get the chance to see Jaws on the big screen.
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Blinking hell! Tapes played a major part of your working life. When I moved to Cornwall in 1988, I ended up during my school holiday's working in a blasted fish & chip shop in Truro. Hated every damn minute of it. About 1991, I did a stint at a video shop in Truro, located at Lemon Quay. The bloke who had the VHS rental shop had just over 1000 titles, and a load of Medusa tapes, plus quite a few Palace tapes that would've gone for good money now. A treasure trove of VHS goodness. Just wished I had the money back in the day to buy up some of those tapes. Miss it lots. |
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Yeah, I ended up working for Apollo for 12 years before segueing into buying for Video Island, Britannia and Prism Leisure - 15 years in total and 14 of those were during the days of tape. I continued to work in the video industry for another five years after that before moving here. All those old independents are gone now. My pal here in Tavistock finally closed his doors last year - I don’t know of any other rental shops now apart from one in Bristol that became the focus of the media a few years ago. I’m sure, like me, you’d travel far and wide collecting tapes back in the day - video shops, newsagents, off licences, boot fairs and charity shops. I was still acquiring stuff to sell well into the 00s (and wrote a regular column about collectible bits for a trade mag) but it’s pretty much dried up now. You seldom see tapes around and if you do they’re the sell-thru releases of common variety titles. Still, I have happy memories and I love chatting about it! |
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I ended up working in HMV in Truro when it opened in 2003. Now it's downsized and ended up in Pydar Street in Truro. It's the closest I got to working with physical media again. There's tapes I still have in my collection from those days when I use to travel to HMV in Guildford back in the 1980's. The prices of tapes in HMV in the mid-1980's was crazy. They often had those Warner big box tapes that were re-issues for £14.99 and then quite a few ex-rental titles that had only been used three times, then they would be sold in HMV or Virgin. I remember buying Return of the Jedi Crocodile Dundee and the first RCA/Columbia release of Krull. Some of those tapes cost about 35 to 50 pounds each. Insane days, considering back then there was no retail market for VHS tapes until 1986. |
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Learn something new etc. Great to see you again, Almar. |
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I use to enjoy those card thingy's through the post. Especially the DVD deals with box sets. There was another business that sold UK rental tapes. Use to be in the trade mags and Video World magazine. Think it was called Gilt Edge or something like that. We're going back some way now. Even my favourite film soundtrack store in Leeds went belly up around the same time as Bensonsworld, Movie Boulevard. They sold films on Region 1, UK DVD, Film soundtracks etc... |
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Grateful, but how long can these businesses carry on with the amount of streaming services popping up. I would imagine that Blu-Ray has another, possibly, 5-10yrs of life, before the plug get pulled. Thank God I've bought three Blu Ray players + plus the one I use currently. Corporations are constantly pushing these newish services more and more, and more people are going for the easier option of streaming. Last edited by hivemind; 10th July 2020 at 03:21 PM. |
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