Oddity Archive: Episode 281.4 – Ben’s Junk: A Tower of Vidicraft (+ Annex Posts) (Patreon)

FULL DISCLOSURE: I made this just after finishing the Sign-Offs Vol. 2 episode, just in case I couldn't get my intended thrifting video out the door (which, of course, dropped last week). As such, the end credit thanks are slightly out-of-date.

With that out of the way, when I was working on the "Early Betamax (& others) Subculture" episode last year, I was using the old Videophile Newsletter/Magazine a lot as a source. While perusing, I found an ad for something called the Vidicraft Commercial Alert. This led me down a rabbit hole of period (early 80's) Vidicraft gear. This video is the result.

Otherwise, this week's round of Annex Posts:

Showtime Break (Sun. 2/26/1984) (SCOPED) – http://youtu.be/zzgWNPvwpxk (consider this an installment of sorts of Archive Annex...After Dark)

The same Showtime Break, but complete - http://archive.org/details/showtime-break-sun-2-26-1984

Two posts from the same (frustrating) tape:

WDAF (NBC - Kansas City, MO) Prime Time Ad Breaks (Mon. 2/20/1984) – http://youtu.be/OL_3V_bj8q8

WDAF (NBC - Kansas City, MO) Ad Breaks (mid-8/1983) – http://youtu.be/J6UxxEJ5VdU

ANNOUNCEMENT: Next week was supposed to be the first episode of the new "season". However, I'm going to be out for a good chunk of next week as my Mom is going in for cataract surgery (both eyes, on consecutive days). If you've been following the situation at home, you know my father can't care for her, so I need to be (with Dad in tow, no less) at the procedures and handling things at home for awhile for both of them. Bottom line is, I know I won't have the current project done in time.

As such, next week will likely be a livestream--I haven't done an "Ask The Archive" in awhile, so, unless I think of something else, that will likely be it (after hours, of course).