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UK TV comedian Bob Monkhouse was another obsessive VHS archivist. He amassed a collection of 35k tapes and saved some recordings of UK TV shows which were previ
by kerrsclyde 2y ago
UK TV comedian Bob Monkhouse was another obsessive VHS archivist. He amassed a collection of 35k tapes and saved some recordings of UK TV shows which were previously thought to have been lost by the BBC.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Monkhouse#Film_and_television_archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Monkhouse#Film_and_televis...
- actionfromafar 2y agoI was going to say that the cost of just the tapes would be up to a million of todays dollars. But then I read: "going back to when Monkhouse first bought a home video recorder in 1966" Wow... if he started that early, the costs must have been astronomical in the beginning.
- kerrsclyde 2y agoThere was a BBC Four documentary about his archive. I think in that it reported that he was one of the first people in the UK to own a VHS device with the facility to record.