Oh no!

[Sherwin]

I was looking at my home video archives and I came across two DL trips from '91 and '99 on VHS. I went to go watch them to bring back some of those great nostalgic memories and to see what was worth mastering to DVD. As I slipped one VHS in, the player kind of whirred a bit, then the tape popped back out. I'm like "Eh! C'mon you stupid thing" and pushed it back into the player. It did the same thing, and when the tape spat back out, I took it and noticed that THE MAGNETIC FILM HAD BEEN PULLED OUT OF THE REELS.

I freaked for about 3 minutes before I decided to try with the '99 tape, and the same thing happened, except this time I actually had to tug the VHS from the player because the film had snagged on the rollers. So here I had two crumpled up VHS tapes with some DL memories I didn't if I could get back.

Luckily I had enough common sense to hand roll the film back inside the VHS, so now I have two whole but battered tapes, and a VHS player I'm ready to axe into pieces. Hopefully, I won't lose too much footage.

 

[bonita_babe232]

not sure what to say but good luck ..... let us know how they were once u get to see them!!!!!!!!

 

[Sherwin]

YEAHHHH! Luckily not too much damage done!!!

OMG, the Skyway, motorboats, Peoplemover, and the submarine voyage are all in the vid!

LOL!

I just heard in the background a lady say, "Only one person died on that ride..."

 

[Jennifer03]

Yay, I'm glad you were able to watch the tapes!

 

[ncbyrne]

I had the same thing happen with a vacation VHS tape. We lost all of it! I would suggest that you have it transfered to a disc.

 

[usschmidt]

Oh no! But on the other hand, I'm glad you still have them. Maybe the video shop can salvage what's left?

FWIW I thought you were posting that someone taped over your footage. This happened to my friend. She popped in her wedding video to show a bunch of people, and out comes the Playboy channel Needless to say her dh was in trouble!!!

Just thought I'd give you a little giggle.