Virtual Channel Surfing #6
so so so so so so so many things to watch
It’s Christmas in July this week on the blog, and I’ve got a giant pile of tapes for y’all! We’re starting off with some festive karaoke and a behind-the-scenes look at Christmas at “America’s largest home”. We’ll take a trip to Niagara Falls after that to look at both the summer and winter seasons there and on our way back we’ll stop at the Wendell August Gift Shoppe in Pennsylvania. We’ll check out the Berkshire Choral Festival and learn a lot about airplanes after that. Lastly, we will get our monthly dose of abstinence-only sexual education and take a tour on the Norwegian Coast.
Lately, the tape hunting has been incredible for both archival candidates, as well as finding grail-level movies to watch in my leisure time. I’d though that the real peak of finding cheap VHS’s in thrift stores had past us already, but recently I’ve found a ton of movies I’ve been looking for and a lot of unique and interesting finds to post here.
UFO’s, horse hitching, dance instructionals, RVing hobby tapes, nightmare fuel phonics edutainment, live Monty Python bootlegs, astronomy tapes… lately I’ve found it all! While I’m content to watch travel documentaries all the time, the variety of what I’ve been able to pick up has been wonderful, and in the coming months, I will be bringing you a whole host of new content. So, please stay tuned! For now, though, let’s get right into the tapes!
Karaoke Video Christmas Volume 9
1998 | 30 Minutes
KARAOKE FUN!
SING-ALONG WITH YOUR TV & YOUR FAVORITE BACKING TRACKS
Introduction: Tips To Get You Started
1. Jingle Bells
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3. Deck The Halls
4. Silent Night
5. Ding Dong Merrily On High
6. O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Good King Wenceslas
8. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
9. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
10. The First Noel
11.Joy To The World
12.We Three Kings
13. Auld Lang Syne
Christmas At Biltmore Estate 1997-98
1997 | 5 Minutes
Niagara Falls At It's Finest
1990 | 20 Minutes
See, hear and feel the power and majesty of the might Niagara in both summer and winter. Experience the stark contrast from summer with its refreshing mist spray to winter with its breathtaking sculptures!
Wendell August Gift Shoppe And Forge
1997 | 11 Minutes
Wendell August was a man who believed in the quality of American craftsmanship. In that spirit, he opened a forge in Brockway, Pennsylvania in 1923, which today is the oldest and largest operating forge in the United States. This video will take you on a journey from the very beginning of this great Ameri- can company to its present day family owned operations. You'll see how Mr. August's dream became a reality and witness the actual hand crafted production processes still used today. Watch America's finest skilled craftsmen create and produce unique one-of-a-kind hand wrought metal gifts.
Berkshire Choral Festival
“Come Sing With Us”
2001 | 19 Minutes
Cleared To Land
1994 | 1 Hour
A CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT! Ever wish you could take your child behind the scenes of a big city airport? Now you can! CLEARED TO LAND is a professional video production that shows your child the sights and sounds of one of the nation's airports. See things you could never see on your own!
Focus On The Family Films:
Sex, Lies &... The Truth
1993 | 32 Minutes
Sex, Lies &... The Truth is an entertaining and powerful 30-minute video revealing the hard truths about sex in the 90s. Young viewers come face-to-face with the realities of unwanted pregnancies, STDs and AIDS. They meet kids just like themselves who gambled everything for a moment's fling --and those who lost it all to a deadly disease.
Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble from TV's "Growing Pains", along with professional athletes, entertainers and celebrities, communicate the life-saving message: waiting isn't a sign of weakness. They prove the real winners in life are those who practice self-control and can face the future without guilt, worry and regret.
Norwegian Costal Voyage
Bergen Line Services
1999 | 15 Minutes
Well, that’s it for this week! I hope you enjoyed the tapes! If you’re looking for more, please check out my page on Archive.org for the full list of digitized media. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message right here or drop a comment below. If you haven’t already, please check out this previous installment of Virtual Channel Surfing! or any of my other previous posts here. Thanks so much for checking out this week’s edition of Diptych!
See you soon!
—Forrest
Summer Christmas!