Now I am two seperate gorillas

The Bonzo Dog Band - "Mr. Apollo"

This vid makes me nostalgic. Not for the Bonzos per se but for analog videos. Back in the day, when I was trading videotapes, I frequently got things that looked like this.

Because the UK and the US were on different video standards, there were three ways to get video from one to another:

1. Drop a couple thousand bucks on a multi-standard VCR
2. Pay about $50 per tapes for a conversion
3. Get a camcorder and shove it in front of a television screen.

The combination of option 3 and the fact that much of the stuff being swapped was copied multiple times before and after the cheap conversion made for the very distinctive texture that you can see here. (The sound generally copied better because you could run a patch cord from the television to the camcorder - it sounds like the person doing this one might not have done that. I think I can hear someone breathing and trying to be quiet in the background.)

The most amazing example of camera copying that I have is one where the person doing it decides to adjust the camera in the middle of the tape and it falls off the tripod. All of a sudden the picture starts flying all over the screen.