Done with the commercial videos

Finally, we have finished looking at the commercially-made videos and dvds. Put many in the "church sale" box; kept some.

Now we must dig into the tapes Mom made. Some will be interesting; some will not. All appear to be taped off TV, but the proto-Tivo ones can be recycled.

Update: one of the tapes (labelled "8-mm") is a VHS shot while Jack M and Mumma watched films of (among other subjects?) the boys's trip around the US in 1966. Because of the method of re-recording, there are delightful comments from both Jack and Mumma on the tape.

Video Glut

We've seen these movies in the last week: For the Boys, Crooklyn (first 1/2 hour), Alice, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, An Ideal Husband, and The Indian in the Cupboard. All go into the "give away" box.

Not the first time for most of them; PDEtheD was a first.  1960 seems so long ago!

Best: Indian. All (except Crooklyn) worth watching. We felt that Crooklyn sang true, dialog-wise, but did not appear to have a plot. Which makes it difficult as escapist video.

I'm not telling how many more we had rejected out of hand, having remembered them vividly, or kept out of hand, ditto. THEN, we will be on to the home-recorded vids; probably we'll fast-forward through most of them.