Category: How-To
How to Have Cybersex on the Internet
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This 1997 instructional video can't decide whether to be informational or sexy and, as a result, succeeds at neither. Tedium has never been this topless.
The Video Guide To Successful Seduction
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Handsome folks from the '80s share their seduction tips. Plus, there's a sleazy reenactment thrown in for good measure. More "Seduction" on the Found Footage Festival Vol. 4 DVD.
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...
How To Seduce Women Through Hypnosis
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A Found Footage Festival classic, this video somehow manages to be creepier than its title suggests. And that's quite a feat for a video called "How to Seduce Women Through Hypnosis." Available on the FFF Vol. 2 DVD.
How To Be A Real Man
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This clip from a video entitled "How to be a Real Man," found at a flea market in Berea, Ohio, shows hip teenagers that life isn't only about Demolition Man posters, Counting Crows CDs and dressing like a bumbling und...
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...
Computers
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This montage of computer instructional videos tells you everything you need to know about computing in the mid-90s, via rappers, white guys, old people, and the cast of "Friends." Featuring The Family Guide to Compute...
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 ...
How To Raise A Street-Smart Kid
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This video purports to teach children how to be safe from strangers and then proceeds to mock those same children by showing them how ignorant they are. Pretty good strategy if you ask us. This tape was found at a fle...
Beaver Felton
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We found this instructional video, "Superchops 4 Bass with Beaver Felton," in Toronto and have been enamored with bass guitar guru Beaver Felton ever since. Here, he explains his finger exercise techniques in a car th...
Total Self Defense
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After one of the greatest intros ever committed to VHS, "Total Self Defense" introduces us to host John McSweeney, a guy who could kill a man with a single blow but is still exceedingly polite to his assistant, Paul. ...
Linda Blair’s How To Get Revenge
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This instructional video, starring Linda Blair from "The Exorcist," starts out with a jokey premise, but the revenge tips that Blair and company offer are far too well-thought-out and far too illegal to be anything bu...
Toilet Training The Feline
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In this homemade instructional video from 1992, a cat owner named Jill takes us through the long and overly complicated steps of toilet training a kitty. She also dabbles in poetry. More TTTF on the FFF Vol. 3 DVD.
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.
Found Footage Festival Vol 8 Trailer
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Live show coming soon to your city!
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.
At Home With English
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This public access show out of Austin, TX was intended as an instructional video for non-English speakers.
Cheerleader Tryout Secrets
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Found by a friend in Austin, Texas, this instructional video teaches you some popular cheerleading techniques, most of which sound like sexual euphemisms.
Pretty Boy Floyd
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In this instructional video, entitled "Secrets of Pool Hustling," professional pool shark Pretty Boy Floyd espouses his opinions on just about everything except pool hustling. More Pretty Boy Floyd is featured on the ...
Your Cat Wants A Massage
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Introducing Champion and his owner, Maryjean, a woman who's the dictionary definition of a crazy cat lady. More Cat Massage on the Found Footage Festival: Vol. 3 DVD.
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...
Cat Training With Trisha Menke
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Just when you think you've seen every crazy cat lady there is to see, along comes Trisha Menke, a woman who's just begging to be played by Catherine O'Hara in a future Christopher Guest movie.
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.
Tom Vu
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In this infomercial from the late '80s, Vietnamese-immigrant and real estate mogul Tom Vu talks about how rich he is. Is it any wonder he's famous from Quebec to Miami? Found by David Whittaker.