Category: How-To
VCR Party Live! Episode 29 – 1st Annual Halloween Special
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This week on VCR Party Live, we delve deep into non-horror movie Halloween VHS, including a homemade house haunting video, "the staring lady," Satan, several aliens, and one witch / martial arts expert.
Halloween Makeups
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This instructional video enlists the help of several 80s metalheads as guinea pigs for some ambitious Halloween "makeups," including the ever popular "Burn Victim."
VCR Party Live! Episode 27 – Myranda Mallenbaum & Dazzle Dancing
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This week on VCR Party Live!, Sylvester Stallone's mother raps, Rick Dees "dazzle dances," and our intern Myranda Mallenbaum joins us to watch videos about wedding DJing and barnyard yoga.
VCR Party Live! Episode 24 – The Art of Screaming & The Great Dutch Oven Debate
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This week on VCR Party Live!, dutch ovens, robot lawn mowers, boudoir photography, Mike Ditka's sweaters, scream singing, and the introduction of Nick's Excitement Corner! VCR Party Live airs Tuesdays at 9pm ET.
VCR Party Live! Episode 16 – Jess Dweck & Sweepstakes Winners
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Tonight on VCR Party Live!, comedy writer Jess Dweck joins to watch videos about breaking into Hollywood, then she draws the winners of our Bullshit Sweepstakes! Watch VCR Party Live! live every Tuesday night at 9p...
VCR Party Live! Episode 5
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In this week's episode of VCR Party Live!, we watch a training video for altar boys, a car care video featuring shirtless hunks, and another segment of the mysterious "bonion sergery" tape. Watch VCR Party Live! li...
VCR Party Live! Episode 3
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Tonight's show features a great Crispin Glover story, Midwestern parades and beauty pageants, plenty of fantastic bloopers, and one male nipple piercing. Watch VCR Party Live! live every Tuesday night at 9pm EST at...
Mind Your Manners
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Whether you're prepping for an important business luncheon or trying to frighten your children into good manners with a costumed beast, these found VHS tapes should help: Table Manners: Doing It Right, The Manners Mon...
Fun with Ventriloquism
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We found a dozen different ventriloquism how-to videos at a Goodwill in Atlantic City. Was Liz Seggen's 1992 VHS tape, "Fun with Ventriloquism," the best? Hell n'yeah!
The Best of Harassment
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We've found a lot of sexual harassment awareness videos at thrift stores over the years and we've realized one thing: workplace harassment is no joke but community theater-level reenactments of workplace harassment ar...
Telepathic Communication with Animals
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Finally, a video that answers the question: What is your chicken thinking? It's the 1990 VHS find, "Telepathic Communication with Animals"
David Letterman’s Video Collection
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When David Letterman retired in 2015, the staff donated over 30 years of the show's VHS archives to the Found Footage Festival. Here is just a small sampling of what's featured in our Volume 8 live show and DVD.
Found Footage Festival Vol 8 Trailer
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Live show coming soon to your city!
Secret Video Game Tricks
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This two-part video series from 1989 was hosted by members of the U.S. National Video Game Team, who, if memory serves, brought home the gold for America in the 1988 Olympics. These are secret video game tricks. They ...
Rock Vocals, Part 2: May!
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Our favorite rock vocals instructor is back, teaching his apprentice Christopher how to sing the word "may." We think these two should have their own sitcom. See more of Christopher on the FFF Vol 4 DVD.
Ferret Fun & Fundamentals
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In this 1996 informational video for new ferret owners, we learn that ferrets have a musky odor, they steal your stuff, and almost everything kills them. Where do we sign up?
Magical Rainbow Sponge
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In our years of collecting VHS, we've learned that all arts and crafts videos are boring. But this one, an instructional video for the Magical Rainbow Sponge, is the one exception to the rule. The host, Dee Gruenig, i...
Special Delivery: “Whelping”
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http://www.foundfootagefest.com Found in a thrift store on Long Island, New York, "Special Delivery" looked pretty innocuous but proved to be an eye-opening education in the world of "whelping." See even more on the F...
Trick And Fancy Roping Made Easy
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This video is for all the cowboys out there who wanted to learn trick roping and had VCRs. Look out for the dainty cowboy at the end.
The Puck Stops Here
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In this hockey instructional video, a very intense instructor with a mustache demands that we have more fun playing hockey. Found at a thrift store in Michigan.
Even More Proof: Swords and Blowguns
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A bonus clip from a 4-DVD set designed to show you how effective Cold Steel weapons are, as featured in FFF Vol. 4. Here, our lovable host advocates playing blowgun games with the whole family.
Sing Like The King: Elvis Sideburn Tips
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Found at a thrift store in Sacramento, this DVD is an instructional video put out by an Elvis impersonator to train other Elvis impersonators, who take it very seriously. Here, he offers pointers on how to keep your f...
Inline Skating Is Fun
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This video extols the virtues of rollerblading in an aggressively hip way, while demonstrating the importance of helmets in a manner that rollerbladers can easily understand.
Rock Vocals: 20 Seconds
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A bonus clip from this DVD on how to sing rock & roll, featured in FFF Vol. 4. We love the gentle host with the wisp of cotton candy hair. Found at Second Best Thrift Store in Queens, NY.
