Das VHS-Imperium – Als das Kino nach Hause kam (TV Movie 2017)

Das VHS-Imperium – Als das Kino nach Hause kam: Directed by Dimitri Kourtchine. With Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Ray D. Glasser, Marc Wielage, Stephen Kroft. At a time when tributes to it are on the rise – the Yale University library has just opened a VHS department – this is the history of the VHS, a globalized medium. The entertaining portrait of the mythical cassette, through a journey from East to West, then from West to East. The film will also take a look at the 1980s, a period that defined our world.

“For me and everyone else in the 80s, the VHS revolution was extraordinary. Suddenly the rest of the world, especially the USA, came in to our homes. The joy of renting a moviebox and some movies in the beginning, was everything. Then when we got our own VCRs, we could even copy our favorites, and build our own libraries. Mind blowing! So this documentary was a nice trip down memory lane. It could have been longer, gone deeper into it, but still a good watch.”