Video Archive: 1995 TV Mashup
In the fall of 1995 I tossed a tape in the VCR and somewhat indiscriminately recorded while I flipped channels over a few different nights. The above video is the result. Most of it is not locally relevant, but there are a few clips from Duluth Public Access Community Television, including two excerpts from Colleen Shannon’s In My Room.
Some of the transitions are edits I made in 2015 for the purpose of cutting this down to under a half hour, but many of them are just what naturally happened in 1995 when I paused the tape, changed channels and resumed recording.
Yes, I know how geeky this is. Yes, I’m proud of myself.
Passion, Profit, POWER. AWESOME!
In My Room is mint.
Was there a (hint louder than) subliminal sound of a helicopter? I honestly kept listening because it was sort of hypnotizing. I am a sucker for trying to get out of the work in front of me!
I think what you are hearing is bad audio resulting from me using cheap equipment to digitize the footage.
Was that bit with David Letterman as a weatherman on KDLH Duluth just using Duluth as a random punch line?
That was a coincidence in which the old Letterman weather footage happened to coincide almost perfectly with KDLH-TV’s station identification. The graphic isn’t part of the 1970s stock footage; it was generated by KDLH to appear locally over part of the 1995 Letterman broadcast.
Oh man… I need a Reba Visa…
This was recorded in the prime of my TV watching days… I feel like I’ve seen it all before…
I miss the old Comedy Central logo
I should note, by the way, that the original edit of this included two clips from Mystery Science Theater 3000, but it was flagged for copyright infringement, so I had to cut those two parts out.
Update: This video made it three and a half years before getting flagged for additional copyright violations: some music video excerpt, a Barry White video clip, and a Baywatch scene.
Maybe I’ll cut those out and re-upload some day.
Another update: The video was again flagged in 2022 for the aforementioned Letterman clip. A new version has replaced the original, without the Worldwide Pants material.