{"id":4783,"date":"2025-02-21T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:08:24","slug":"mystery-1-video-tape-of-bloomington-normal-illinois-in-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/?p=4783","title":{"rendered":"Mystery 1&#8243; Video Tape of  Bloomington Normal Illinois in 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you read my recent blog post, you&#8217;ll know I recently found a 1&#8243; Type C VTR\u2014specifically, a Sony BHV-2000. After receiving it, I knew I needed more test media, and after finding a cheap eBay listing that I thought was probably a Type C recording, I hit purchase, not really knowing what I would get. It could be type A, B, or the very common type C.  The tape was listed as coming from a defunct radio station in Illinois, but beyond that, I didn&#8217;t know its origins. It was recorded sometime in 1980 but, according to the tape, was transferred to 1&#8243; in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, after receiving the tape and threading it onto my 1&#8243;, I was able to get timecode and color bars. What I found was footage from Bloomington and Normal, Illinois. I have no idea who shot it\u2014there&#8217;s speculation in the YouTube comments that it was filmed by a student at ISU, which makes sense. But that&#8217;s just as mentioned speculation. The reel consists of handheld B-roll with shots of ISU, streets, storefronts, a mall and various parts of town, often a bit unsteady as I think whoever shot this was still learning. Why this was later transferred to 1&#8243; I&#8217;m not sure? <br><br><br>Below is that video upscaled to HD with a Teranex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1-Inch Videotape Mystery: Vintage Downtown Bloomington-Normal, Illinois from 1980\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OioSVHPK4jI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my recent blog post, you&#8217;ll know I recently found a 1&#8243; Type C VTR\u2014specifically, a Sony BHV-2000. After receiving it, I knew I needed more test media, and after finding a cheap eBay listing that I thought was probably a Type C recording, I hit purchase, not really knowing what I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1de0.com\/Old-Site-Copy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}