Previews before old VHS movies
I'm a total nostalgia whore (check my Pay TV Memories thread), so I thought that I'd start a thread dedicated to trailers on old VHS releases. I think they deviate from current previews on DVD's and Blu-ray's not just for the nostalgia factor, but because of how they were always included with messages about asking your "local video dealer" about pre-viewed tapes and, instead of those annoying anti-piracy ads there would be PSA's for drugs. What are some of your memorable favorites? Thought I'd post some Youtubed ones.
Diet Coke commercial from the first Batman VHS: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dhvTUhqJR5M&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dhvTUhqJR5M&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Also from that tape, the Warner Bros. Studio Catalog spot (which also appeared on, among others, Lethal Weapon 2 and Beetlejuice): Diet Pepsi ad on Top Gun's original release (first third-party commercial on a VHS IIRC): The Diet Coke ad from the original Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade VHS: Some other factoids:
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Those 3 are pretty much the only goddamn VHS ads anyone ever remembers. Although I would appreciate it if someone were to post the Daffy Duck cartoon at the beginning of Batman. I still have to call Warner Brothers and request my free catalogue.
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Originally Posted by Zen Peckinpah
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Also from that tape, the Warner Bros. Studio Catalog spot
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Originally Posted by MaxMFP
(Post 9044074)
Those 3 are pretty much the only goddamn VHS ads anyone ever remembers. Although I would appreciate it if someone were to post the Daffy Duck cartoon at the beginning of Batman. I still have to call Warner Brothers and request my free catalogue.
Also, raise your hand if you watch or watched movies with your Warner Bros. Ball Cap on. I expect zero responses to this. |
VHS related - Vincent Price explaines how to keep your head clean!
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...And an anti-drug spot from the Robocop VHS...
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Originally Posted by Doctor Gonzo
(Post 9044343)
...And an anti-drug spot from the Robocop VHS...
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Originally Posted by Zen Peckinpah
(Post 9044033)
[*]Spaceballs' original release has an enticingly ambiguous teaser for Willow. I never saw it, but I can't imagine being as good as the trailer.
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an exercise psa from Arnold (followed by an ad for Subway :lol: on the original Terminator 2 vhs. |
I only remember the 2 ads in front of Batman.
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I remember the preview for the second Crow movie on the first VHS, where they showed the characters name as Michael something, which became Ash in the film.
Last night I was watching Robocop and it made me think of a drug psa before Robocop 2. It was an edited version of the scene where Robocop electrocutes himself. "What's bothering, Murphy?" "Drugs. Drugs are bothering me." |
It's actually "Drugs bug me."
Here's another one I forgot. A Pizza Hut ad preceding the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie: Ironic considering how in the film Domino's is prominently featured. And another one, the Pepsi commercial on the original Home Alone tape: |
There was one I saw a lot where a bunch of kids dress up as characters from The Wizard of Oz.
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I remember an old Diet Coke ad that was on an old tape that had a young girl with a mudpack on her face and cucumbers on her eyes walking around and her younger brother and his friends saw her and were scared shitless. It was raining and thundering outside. I think it may have been before Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.
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It's funny, I just salvaged an old Batman VHS tape out of my grandma's garage specifically to watch the commercials/previews that play before the movie. For some reason, I've had a craving to watch those again. Brings back the memories....
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Does anyone remember those celebrity anti-drug ads before 80's movies on Touchstone video? I know one was Pee-Wee Herman.
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I guess the decline in these commercials means the war on drugs is over?
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