The end of an old videotape is a fractured, flickering dreamscape of random images and sounds that have been captured in their magnetic amber simply because they happened to be there when the net was lowered. Old commercials, television programmes you wouldn't watch in a billion centuries, forgotten continuity, all flickering and changing, fading in and out of one another like dreams, ephemera manipulated by chance. The end of my Song of the South tape is a canonical example of that, because it ends with an obsure piece of video art followed by a goofy advert for stout. Before all that, though - and I haven't included this in the upload but I thought I'd mention it - the initial marathon recording finally comes to an end right at the end of the first refrain of Sleeping Satellite - by contrast, we got the whole of East 17's "Everybody in the House of Love" - which then segues into a randomly captured clip from a repeat, presumably in 1992, of Life on Earth, depicting some genuinely eye-popping footage of kangaroos being born. Having seen this, completely by chance, I now have greater respect for kangaroos than I'd ever thought possible. Those guys are more hardcore just BEING BORN than I have ever been in my entire life. They come out as foetuses, looking like mouth ulcers that learned to crawl, and they cold hike from their mother's womb all the way up her torso to the pouch. Before they even get legs. Takes 'em five minutes, and mother doesn't help them a bit. Kangaroos <b>...</b>
adverts
commercials
1992
Channel
Four
Barclaycard
Midland
Bank
Fiat
Mark
Strong
Rowan
Atkinson
Richard
Heslop
