The Last Video Store | a documentary on the World's oldest VHS & DVD rental store
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2020
- 20th Century Flicks is the oldest video rental store in the World. It’s small, close-knit crew has unwittingly become custodians of the largest collection of DVDs and VHS tapes in the UK, and faces a constant struggle to adapt and survive in the age of streaming and downloading.
Visit them online, or drop into their store next time you’re in Bristol
www.20thcenturyflicks.co.uk/
"It’s an ode to the video shop experience and a bygone way of watching movies. With studios like Disney launching their own streaming services and joining industry kingpins such as Netflix and Hulu, we have an almost endless flow of entertainment available at the click of a button. It’s amazing to me that a little independent video store can survive the Netflix cull and even outlive Blockbuster. Drop into the shop next time you’re in Bristol for a dose of movie nostalgia, have a chat about film and go home with a VHS rarity and a bag of popcorn." - Director, Arthur Cauty
A film by Arthur Cauty
20th Century Flicks:
David Taylor
David White
Paul Green
Daisy Steinhardt
Marion Lawrence
Music
Cerulean Skies
Future Joust
Strom
ELFL
Title Animation
Charles Yeager
Available in 8 & 3 minute durations.
WINNER, $75,000 1st Prize Documentary, My Rode Reel 2020
Official Selection, Raindance 2020
Official Selection, FilmBath 2020
Official Selection, Borrego Springs Film Festival 2021
Featured on Film Shortage, Booooooom, Retrospective of Jupiter.
Filmed on Panasonic GH4 with Sigma Art lenses (+ a few Sony A7S shots)
a DC7 Films production
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"There was just something about these videos
that was so much more seductive.
Even just the cases, like the physical cases
and this tape that you put in,
and this movie would start. "
That statement hit me like a tuning fork. That's exactly how I feel about playing records.
There is a shop called Casey's in Killarney in County Kerry in Ireland which is still renting movies... I'm almost certain that they are around since the early 80's. Great little shop and staff.
The guy is spot on about netflix not even giving you time to process what you just watched before it's counting down to the playing of the next title in 12 seconds.
That part struck me too! Of all the movies I've watched in my life, the ones I've either rented or owned in physical form are definitely the ones I remember the best. Maybe it has something to do with holding the artifact and looking at the artwork, I'm not sure. But that's definitely the case for me.
You can turn off auto play and stop Netflix if you need time to process what you watched
Wish I lived closer to that store, such an awesome place to hang out. The cinemas are a great touch.
I have never stopped watching videos and use my VHS player almost as much now as I ever did, so to me videos are a normal and regular part of life. It is so strange watching masses of people all follow along with what society dictates and "evolve" into using new forms of entertainment but then go on about how much they miss videos and whatnot. It is especially strange when you're somebody like me who never stopped watching videos so can't even grasp missing them. People are weird.
This is what my childhood was like. DVDs with movies, rentals, bartering it was an experience that we will unfortunately can never reproduce. For me, these people will always remain Heroes, because they keep their as well as our memories - Alive!
I still have wonderfully vivid childhood memories of browsing movies and games at my local video store 😌
The rental store was my favorite I can remember it like yesterday when they had the tremors poster and displays out it’s one of my earliest video store memories
Guys this is memories beyond. I used to spend hours in a week choosing my video for the night to the point the cashier would give me the vids for half price lol. I still have 100s of vhs tapes and a working vhs player
Well, I use streaming services very often, mostly Netflix and Disney+, but I love to collect (and watch!) physical editions. It’s a special thing for movie lovers.
Me too!
Stores like these are the sole reason we must support our local businesses.
Support now before it's too late.
Brilliantly done, Arthur--the store of a video shop taking an indie-stand shines through! Congrats on winning Rode Reel.
Thank you so much!
Great mini-doc. I was it was feature length! I hope they're doing okay during this pandemic.
I still have my vcr/dvd player, and still enjoy watching it for nostalgia feel, just watched dances with wolves kevin costner today.
Thank you for keeping that spirit alive!
I miss court wurthin video shop in Ashford Kent, it was my hangouts when I was a teenager, looking at video covers all day love it.
Fantastic little doc Arthur, congrats! I don't have a place like this one in my country, and I doubt that are many like this across Europe as well. I own 250 dvd's, more or less, and I try to buy a new one every week, because the feeling of putting the cd on the dvd player and press Play is unique
What a beautiful story....
It was the smell of 🎥 film that drew me
since my local video ezy shut years ago, i’ve tried to gather dvds of my favourite shows/movies and share them around to kind of recreate that experience of discovering something new. maybe when the apocalypse comes and the internet dies, people like me and these super rad shops can host the abandoned warehouse movie nights lmao
Amazing lil video, hit me right in the feels!
Thanks! Hope your feels are ok ;)
Hi Great to see, I have a collection of around 5000 VHS tapes mainly pre cert horror, Foreign, adult and music and cartoons
Great documentary and Daisy could be a model!
Love this ...
I mainly just remember late fees, I also don't regret uber taking over the taxi industry
Gret doco! Last video store in Tasmania shut in 2019... Hope 20th Century Flicks continues - I hope to visit one day
This is absolutely amazing 👏
Loved watching this, brought back so many memories of my first job working in a video shop and did so for many years. Also had my own video shop in Cardiff. Anyone know where I can get hold of ex rental VHS/DVD’s? I would love to visit one day.
Holy shit, I didn't know that they were still going! I wonder if my membership will still exist from the early nineties? I'll have to pay them a visit. Great film, thanks
Better yet, I wonder if they still remember you!
This was great!!! I hope you guys can find that expansion one day.
In Rimini we have a place that now can be called historical, wich is "Manolo il videonolo".
This makes me quite sad. I used to walk four miles with friends as a kid and rent three movies for £15 and we would buy snacks and watch them back to back, i miss the trip to the store, asking what the new big movie is and whose been in, whose with who
Great video, shot and edited vary well
Such a cool doc
Amazing, keep it going guys, would donate if you had that option.
If I lived closer (I’m in London)…..I’d be in there all the time! I miss the video shop experience!
I miss the tangibility that things had.
Jungle video is the last and biggest video store left in sunny socal.
Superb
I would rather watch on vhs than streaming service. I miss the time of putting vhs on VCR.
Yes "VHS formate" we relly miss.
I still have my VCR and Around 20 original VHS movies.
They are my treasure!
I hope they survive the pandemic. I imagine they might do better than cinemas.
If I lived near there, I'd be willing to pay a monthly subscription to just be able to go and watch any movie there anytime I wanted (as long as a screening time was available).
Movie Madness in Portland, OR, is a similar model, only they crowdfunded buying out the original owner, thus making it a non-profit. moviemadness.org/
ha ha we’re all watching this on TH-cam
Wonderful direction quality! Odd question, May I know the font you used for the credits?
Can’t remember sorry! Been a while since I made this
Never I heard of video store in United Kingdom. I felt sad that Netflix kill family video. I used to work at family video in 2014.
Covid killed Family Video
The little instore cinema ! incredible work
Bring on the emp
👑
I recently came across a fairly large collection and I'm wondering if this shop either buys them or take donations of them from people? Thanks
Not sure! I imagine they’re a little pressed for space. You could get in touch with them though. Website in description
The only disc I have left is the Gran Turismo 1 XD
Gran Turismo is not difficult to find. You can get that game anywhere. 😉
I think your claim about this being the oldest rental store in the world may be wrong. RAO Video in Little Rock, Arkansas USA has been open since 1977 (until last month of this writing).
Hmm we were under the impression it had already closed?
People have been brainwashed by advertising that being home alone watching Netflix is better
Everyone is more and more miserable by each passing day because they don't get that human connection
They dont get LIFE EXPERIENCE that will remind them that their life is worth living
I hate tvs with 500 channels
All of these netflix shows are garbage BECAUSE they are a streaming service and not a rent out one
I would give everything to return to the days i went out of my house to rent out a video
%100 spot on , physical stores closing down to be replaced by a online streaming service is actually one of the saddest things I’ve seen , you never ever had a bad weekend because you could get up on a nice cold night , run to blockbuster with a friend or family member , have a laugh & a joke, look around the sections for new & old movies , look at the artwork of the cases & read the back of it , get some snacks etc that’s what life’s about , i feel angry , sad & just at loss at how those days passed us..
@@QFilmz Right man.These days we never leave home and we stuff ourselves with single serving cheap online garbage.
@@QFilmz Keep the faith in video stores Q man.As long as the idea exists in our minds it will continue to live on.
@@QFilmz I still remember how i used to go out every weekend to rend out a movie.Sometimes i went to the video store to buy a movie that was on sale.We DID things you know?We didnt just sit at home like prisoners in jail.
@@lazarusblackwell6988 yh Lazarus don’t worry , I’ve always got faith in them , going out to the video stores had other experiences attached to them , like maybe running into an old friend , meeting new people there , I just hope one day , some how , some way ,video stores will make a return..
Salò seems to be suspiciously prominently placed in several of the initial shots.
Haha incidental I assure you!
tell me flicks is still alive please
They're alive and well!
@@acauty i'm so happy to hear!
OTT. ONLINE. WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE FILM MUSIC THEATRE INDUSTRY.even EMPLOYMENT S
❤😎👍🏽
Yea I don't like streaming services...
- Most of the content is super trash. It's like browsing the discount section. Instead of watching ads in TV while watching a movie - resulting in a 30 minute waste of my time - I am now watching 90 minutes of trash. Some content that is just horrible in every way.
- Some services have dreadful apps and websites. See HBO GO. It's a nightmare.
- You have to deal with quality issues, I mean even if I pay for the highest Netflix package, I am not able to always force the best quality on my device...
- You get just a subset of the 'selection'. Like person A gets selection A. I get selection B. Even though I pay the same amount of money (or more at times). That's not cool.
- You even get just a subset of audio tracks and subtitles. You are not from person B? Too bad, you don't get their voice track.
- Content comes and goes. You want to watch something but you don't have the time? Well, too bad, it might be gone tomorrow.
Sorry for the tl;dr I know no one has the time to read all this ...
I had the time to read it. It was quicker than watching 90 minutes of crap on Netflix ;) thanks for watching!
Is there any way to see playboy's really naked truth?
its amazing to think people still go and rent a movie at a video store like this one. yeah a lot of time you spend looking through all the shit on netflix but video stores dont have as much shit that you have to sift through to find something good. it's just too much i mean you spend an hour just finding a movie to watch on netflix.
Did they survive the pandemic ? :-(
Last I heard they're still going - shop is closed but doing deliveries
Yup! Still alive and well - we’ll be reopening when it’s safe to do so
@@daisysteinhardt6436 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 you guys are just amazing hope your well , as soon as your open I’ll come down & buy whatever I can! thanks guys
Did this survive the panademic?
They’re still going!