BEFORE BLU-RAY AND DVD, BEFORE YOUTUBE AND CAMERA PHONES, THERE WAS VHS, THE VIDEO BREAKTHROUGH THAT CHANGED IT ALL
REWIND THIS!
The Nostalgia-Filled History of the Home video Format, Told by Both Filmmakers and Movie-Renting Fans, Arrives on DVD From Film Buff on January 14, 2014
The videocassette tape, once the cutting edge of home entertainment, is now a relic, but the story of its rise and fall becomes compelling viewing in REWIND THIS!, a loving and enlightening history of the format and the lives it helped change. The documentary comes to DVD from FilmBuff on January 14, 2014, with an SRP of $24.98. The film will also be available as a DVD/VHS bundle exclusively through Amazon.
Until the late 1970s, the only way to see movies uncut and uncensored was in a theater or on the new and not-widely-available pay cable. But the arrival of VHS, and its competing videotape format Beta, created a revolution that would ultimately change how movies were seen, distributed and even produced. It was an exploding industry without rules, where new terms like "fast-forward" and "direct-to-video" entered the vocabulary, and where the previously unheard of notion of owning movies became a reality. The simultaneous invention of the camcorder allowed everyone to become a filmmaker, leading to, among other things, the "found footage" genre of movies epitomized by The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, not to mention the rise of the adult industry.