videotape Archives - Desperate Living

From the days before VHS – movie collecting, curious edits and weird retitling.

It’s time for another vintage VHS (and Betamax) video catalogue from the early days of home video, this time from mega-conglomerate CIC.

Continuing our occasional series charting the history of vintage VHS (and Betamax) promotional brochures.

The long-unseen 1960s BBC adaptations of Georges Simenon’s classic crime novels re-examined.

Cassette tapes are having a rise in popularity and it makes no sense at all.

The BBC horror anthology serial is more interesting than the poor production values and theatrical performances make it seem.

From the fringe world of specialist VHS tapes comes this combination of bikini babes and heavy weaponry.