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Mar 29, 2015 - 12:51 PM
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DS
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I did, and several times a year still do, hunt down movies only because composers I love scored them & I want to see what their brilliance (or even genius) brought to a project, no matter what the quality of the actual film may be. I've actually done this with with every composer I love, so I could go on forever about this subject...
But going to the video store in the early-mid '90s (I was born in 1986) I was certainly looking for Goldsmith's name on boxes after watching "Gremlins," for Elfman's after watching "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," for Williams' after watching "Star Wars" and "E.T.," and my wild card, for Richard Band's after watching "Puppet Master."
Then when I was nine and ten the best movies ever made were Ray Harryhausen films (which I still adore) and the best of those had Herrmann scores, and it was my love for those scores that actually motivated me to watch the Herrmann-scored Hitchcock films, then every single film Herrmann scored.
To go back to the original question, I'd have to think that the first movie I remember renting (and over and over... and over) was "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," a film & score I love even more now than I did as a kid.
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Star Wars or Superman or something like that must have been one of the first.
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Yeah, I had a top-loading Hitachi machine, and I knew how it worked. Nowadays I have no idea how to connect these things...
Even in the small village in the highlands where I lived, they had videos for rent, and I remember (this dates it now - 1974) seeing the VHS tape for GOLD and it had "MUSIC BY ELMER BERNSTEIN" written across the front cover. In big letters, I mean...
EDIT : Duh, what was I thinking? It couldn't have been 1974 because that was when the film GOLD came out. The VHS rental would be a few years later!
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mmm, first rented Phillips tape around 1978 The wild bunch.
first rented vhs The long good friday 79, Deer hunter and Death hunt - bronson.
first purchased vhs tape The wild bunch!! was £30.
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Mar 29, 2015 - 2:26 PM
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Thor
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My dad got a VCR very late, much later than most others in my class. I think it was the early 90s -- around the time of JURASSIC PARK, anyway.
Before that, whenever we rented video in our house, it was for birthday parties. In Norway at the time, we offered something called a 'moviebox' in rental stores for those who didn't have their own home systems, i.e. a simple VCR that you could bring home for the duration of the rental. It looked something like this:
For these 'moviebox' birthday parties, I remember renting films like KING KONG (1976), CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, THE SWORD IN THE STONE and others I have forgotten.
But of course, throughout the 80s I always had the opportunity to rent or watch VHS movies at my friends' homes. So in reality, I cannot remember what my first VHS rentals were. I'm impressed by those of you who can remember such details in your past.
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