What was the very first movie that you ever owned (on any format)?
05-13-16, 11:05 PM
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What was the very first movie that you ever owned (on any format)?
What was the very first movie that you ever owned, on any format?
The first movie I ever owned was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, which was on VHS.
The first movie I ever owned was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, which was on VHS.
05-13-16, 11:35 PM
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Frankenstein Vs. the Wolfman on 8mm. Xanadu and Flash Gordon on laserdisc. !2 Monkees on DVD. HD-DVD maybe Forbidden Planet. Bu-ray might have been The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
05-14-16, 12:28 AM
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Movie that I videotaped off HBO and then broke the tabs and kept for future viewings : Jaws
Don't really remember first videotape purchases I made.
Don't really remember first videotape purchases I made.
05-14-16, 12:56 AM
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Some Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Collections (Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, etc)
Muppet Weird Stuff (Gonzo compilation from original Muppet Show)
Star Trek - City on the Edge of Forever, The Menagerie
All of these were on beta as Camelot Music was clearing out their old beta inventory.
Muppet Weird Stuff (Gonzo compilation from original Muppet Show)
Star Trek - City on the Edge of Forever, The Menagerie
All of these were on beta as Camelot Music was clearing out their old beta inventory.
05-14-16, 03:11 AM
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Do these count?
Because to my 10-11 year old brain, they were just like watching the movie!
After that, though I had already taped a bunch of stuff off of HBO (pre-cable with the antenna) it was a bootleg VHS of The Empire Strikes Back that a friend had and I brought my VCR over to his house so I could make a copy.
Because to my 10-11 year old brain, they were just like watching the movie!
After that, though I had already taped a bunch of stuff off of HBO (pre-cable with the antenna) it was a bootleg VHS of The Empire Strikes Back that a friend had and I brought my VCR over to his house so I could make a copy.
05-14-16, 03:25 AM
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Batman 89 on vhs. I was 5.
05-14-16, 05:34 AM
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The first stuff was all 80's movies on HBO that I recorded with my super-beta hi-fi. I think the first stuff I actually bought was Star Trek TOS on Beta through Columbia House.
05-14-16, 06:50 AM
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I think ET, it was a copy given to me by our local rental shop... probably in '85 or '86. Might still have it actually...
05-14-16, 08:10 AM
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8mm: The Beast With Five Fingers
Got a VCR for Christmas 1983. It was Christmas Eve. Got the thing home and hooked it up. HBO was showing sneak preview of Creepshow and recorded it.
Got a VCR for Christmas 1983. It was Christmas Eve. Got the thing home and hooked it up. HBO was showing sneak preview of Creepshow and recorded it.
05-14-16, 08:28 AM
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Ahhh yes the simple pleasures of Castle Films' 8mm collecting. My friend and I used to edit the sound from television broadcasts of these films on cassette. The sync was always an issue...but we enjoyed going into the basement and watching those silent mini-reels of classic goodness on the Bell & Howell Projector. That was definitely one of my early collected films but the one I remember editing for sound was Hammer's "Curse of Frankenstein."
When I was in college a friend and I convinced our parents to loan us the dough to open our first video rental store—we eventually owned and operated two of them so I had such a huge library of Beta and VHS tapes at my disposal that I never actually collected VHS in a "personal" library. I dabbled in laser disc but I was never convinced it was gonna supplant VHS. And there was the awful RCA "Selectavision" discs—plagued by skipping and other playback issues. The LP was already in danger because of the compact disc "CD" and there were already rumblings that a similar product would make its way to the market for movies. So the first format I actually collected in a "personal" library outside of 8mm and Super 8 was DVD and if memory serves, the first film I grabbed was "Bladerunner" but I am not absolutely sure.
When I was in college a friend and I convinced our parents to loan us the dough to open our first video rental store—we eventually owned and operated two of them so I had such a huge library of Beta and VHS tapes at my disposal that I never actually collected VHS in a "personal" library. I dabbled in laser disc but I was never convinced it was gonna supplant VHS. And there was the awful RCA "Selectavision" discs—plagued by skipping and other playback issues. The LP was already in danger because of the compact disc "CD" and there were already rumblings that a similar product would make its way to the market for movies. So the first format I actually collected in a "personal" library outside of 8mm and Super 8 was DVD and if memory serves, the first film I grabbed was "Bladerunner" but I am not absolutely sure.
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05-14-16, 08:46 AM
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I had that Grease photo book! Got it at one of those Scholastic Book Fairs they have in schools. Nothing like enjoying a musical by looking at pictures with word bubbles over their heads.
05-14-16, 12:12 PM
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No idea. My best guess for an official release is probably one of the Disney clamshells when I was younger. I remember getting Back to the Future on VHS when I was pretty young. I think it was sold at McDonald's as some promotion. I got the sequels on VHS as well for my birthday shortly after that. My parents bought them for me from a local rental store. Also remember getting Batman Returns for Christmas the year it came out I believe. Back then getting official VHS copies of films was rare. Most of the time the things I had were recorded off tv.
05-14-16, 01:26 PM
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First pre-recorded VHS tape I ever bought was a public-domain EP-speed "Night of the Living Dead" for $9.99 at a supermarket in 1986. Damn thing doesn't even have a label on it. Before that, I got several of the Fisher-Price Movie Viewer film cartridges- I still have the viewer for them, used to have a projector also but don't know what happened to it.
First movie I taped off TV was "The Birds" in 1985, if that counts. KTXL used to do a "Summer Film Festival" every year where they'd show classic movies, of course the Fox network killed all that off. Wonder what movies they'd be showing this year if they were still doing it?
First movie I taped off TV was "The Birds" in 1985, if that counts. KTXL used to do a "Summer Film Festival" every year where they'd show classic movies, of course the Fox network killed all that off. Wonder what movies they'd be showing this year if they were still doing it?
05-14-16, 03:39 PM
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Super 8: Either The Giant Claw (50') or The Wolf Man (200')
Beta: (pre-recorded) High Voltage (30's era pre-code that was being sold with similar lesser known public domain titles at Waldenbooks)
VHS: (pre-recorded) Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Two Tales Of Terror (2 hr long eps for $40)
Laserdisc: The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen) ($69.95)
DVD: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ('78) ($19.95)
HD DVD: Million Dollar Baby (chose as a store freebie with the purchase of the player)
Blu-ray: Bizarrely I'm drawing a blank here. I think it was Casino Royale.
Beta: (pre-recorded) High Voltage (30's era pre-code that was being sold with similar lesser known public domain titles at Waldenbooks)
VHS: (pre-recorded) Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Two Tales Of Terror (2 hr long eps for $40)
Laserdisc: The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen) ($69.95)
DVD: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ('78) ($19.95)
HD DVD: Million Dollar Baby (chose as a store freebie with the purchase of the player)
Blu-ray: Bizarrely I'm drawing a blank here. I think it was Casino Royale.
05-14-16, 06:43 PM
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Because I promised myself upgrading to 4k wasn't going to mean re-buying my Blu-ray collection (except for very special upgrades), my first Ultra HD purchase was:
Fantastic Four
my second purchase was Deadpool, so I may just lie about this in the future should the format take off.
Fantastic Four
my second purchase was Deadpool, so I may just lie about this in the future should the format take off.
05-14-16, 07:07 PM
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A live concert by The Go-Go's called Totally Go-Go's from around 1981 on VHS. Back then, damn expensive. I still have it. 
05-14-16, 07:33 PM
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05-14-16, 09:09 PM
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05-15-16, 06:35 AM
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My dad took us to Video Shack and he bought 3 films, Annie Hall, Bananas & The Pink Panther Strikes Again on VHS from Magnetic Video:
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The first film I bought for myself (along with my brother), was Plan 9 From Outer Space on VHS from Nostalgia Merchant:
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The first film I bought for myself (along with my brother), was Plan 9 From Outer Space on VHS from Nostalgia Merchant:
05-15-16, 08:17 AM
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Ahhh yes the simple pleasures of Castle Films' 8mm collecting. My friend and I used to edit the sound from television broadcasts of these films on cassette. The sync was always an issue...but we enjoyed going into the basement and watching those silent mini-reels of classic goodness on the Bell & Howell Projector. That was definitely one of my early collected films but the one I remember editing for sound was Hammer's "Curse of Frankenstein."
I forgot about an earlier toy projector I had. It was hand cranked and came with Marvel super-hero cartoons. These are the same crude, mid-sixties cartoons shown on television. Cap America, Sub-Mariner, etc.