I recently decided to rearrange my VHS collection from alphabetical, to a much more structured and aesthetically pleasing method, Film Studios.
Many ideas were rolling around in my head at the time. One being sorting them into their age classification, another option was by genre, and another one was by chronological order. All options looked very time consuming, but of course fun for me.
When I finally settled on Film Studios, I quickly realised that this would not be possible due to many films being release by two studios on one VHS cassette. Another, and rather more problematic scenario would be how to actually locate my films. Would I have to remember that the VHS I own of 'Once Upon A Time In America' is the Warner Brothers/Weintraub one? Or do I have the EMI version? Hmm... It appeared to be all memory based, like Rob Gordon's Vinyl in High Fidelity.
After much deliberation and also moving the best part of 400 films to the floor, I had a change of heart and decided to place them back into alphabetical order. An order in which they will remain for many years to come. I did however manage to get one positive thing out of 'the move'. It helped me remember how amazing the various Studios look on the VHS boxes.
Over the next few months (skipping May), I will be gathering together all of my films (most of which are in their original cases) and will be posting them on here for the whole VHS world to see.
I will try and skip the more mainstream movies that I own, like from the mid to late 90's, and instead concentrate on the 80's and below tapes.
I do own alot more WB tapes but it's pointless putting films like Dennis on here so i'm sticking to the earlier one's.
Some of the studios include CIC, CBS FOX, EMI, VTC, MEDIA and even SC VIDEO.
I thought it would be best to start with Warner Brothers. Here I have tried to focus on the large ex-rental cases, these best symbolise my memories of the local video store (Video Vision) which closed down about 8 years back.
