Ann Arbor Home Cinema Slide (early Pay-Per-View) (Circa 1978)
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025
- Found on an extremely early Beta L-500 tape, this may very well be the only recorded evidence of the existence of “Ann Arbor Home Cinema”, an apparent local Pay-Per-View sort of thing (my web searches have turned up a pair of barely-informative blurbs). This occurred after a showing of the 1977 Clint Eastwood film, “The Gauntlet”.
In spite of the fact that nothing occurs in the 10+ minutes that the slide is up, I have nonetheless included the whole thing.
Also, as a reward for sitting through the still, I’ve included all that was recorded of the nights’ next (and probably final) feature, which happens to be of the adult (and very stereotypically early-70’s) variety. Don’t worry kids, nothing dirty occurs during this time.
NOTE: This tape wasn’t exactly in great condition, coupled with the wonky original formula of the then-new L-500 tapes, and well, be prepared for a LOT of dropouts and other glitches, especially towards the end (natch).
This aired in (presumably) Ann Arbor, Michigan, probably in 1978 (no later than '79).
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It's amazing that something like this survived so long without getting taped over or otherwise ruined.
I wonder if maybe this was a precursor to IT(In Home Theater). IT was a pay TV service that was broadcast on WIHT(now WPXD)in Ann Arbor starting in 1981.
The Eighteen Carat Virgin was from 1971, and is (laughably) listed on IMDB.
on the other hand, having so many frames of this one slide means you could essentially remove all the noise by averaging all the frames together.
Interesting to know that In-Home Theatre WASN'T Ann Arbor's first Pay-TV service. The picture quality would suggest cable. My dad lived in Ann Arbor from 84 to 94, and there are several tapes in his collection that have this diagonal line static (I call it "carpetvision"). WXON and WGTE had the worst reception on the system.
This is very strange. But for this video, an entire channel/service/program would be entirely lost. As of December 2, 2021, there is still no other evidence of Ann Arbor Home Cinema’s existence besides this video. What else was recorded on this tape? Anything at the beginning? Any on-screen graphics, ID bugs, etc during the movie? While this service appears very primitive even by 70s standards, maybe we can pinpoint some more info about probably the most mysterious channel on television.
If your VCR and newer TV have an analog coax, try running the tape again. It might identify the station on your TV. I have an off-air recording of The Ten Commandments from 1986, and my TV correctly identified the recording as being from a former ABC affiliate in Hawaii. (How that tape got to a community yard sale at a tech school in New Jersey, I have no idea.) Worth a shot.
Everything I know is already in the video description.
Needs some "Beautiful Music" during the slide.
Exactly what I was going to say.
eyeh8nbc My cable company would do that all the time whenever these moments showed up!
Now I'm thinking "Rainy Days and Mondays"!
***** Perhaps they didn't have enough cash to get one of those clunky video titles to use.
I liked it, but it really could of been trimmed down a lot. A lot of nothing for 11 minutes.
I love how wonky the slide is. You can tell the camera or the slide isn't perfectly aligned just right.