A VHS tape of an episode of the Little Women MIC English dub has been on Ebay for quite a while.
The VHS tape cannot be found on Google Images (it has not been available for sale online often), the episode on the tape is not currently on Youtube, and the VHS tape itself is generally undocumented online. It is not even mentioned on the Dubbing Wikia page for the dub. The episode is called “The Other Beth”. The Ebay seller is asking $40 for the VHS, seeing as how it is still sealed, and has never been played in a VCR.
I myself am unable to buy the VHS tape, due to cost, and due to how I am completely unfamiliar with how to record VHS footage and post it online. I’m hoping that another LMW member can step in for me with this task, before the VHS is sold to a buyer unfamiliar with the concept of the LMW.
I highly advise against making a public thread like this in the future. If something rare comes up for sale, DM a mod.
Regardless, I did purchase the tape, and I have VHS archival equipment, so I hope to digitize it as soon as it arrives. In addition, I found that there seems to be seven tapes released by this company, and not three. This Google Books preview should show the titles for the other tapes. There was one titled "Snob Amy Expelled From School" that was online recently, but it's now no longer available.
Glad to see the tape is in good hands currently. Google Books is not a place I would usually look for information on lost media, hahaa, but I’m surprised to see that such research came in handy for the dub. I saw the Snob Amy VHS tape listing. Apparently it was posted about a year and a half ago on Etsy. Etsy isn’t a site I check often for VHS tapes. They’re supposed to specialize in homemade item sales. I’m shocked that someone even noticed the item and bought it, considering the steep price for the VHS even when they did find it on Etsy.
Don’t beat yourself up too bad for not knowing about the Snob Amy tape in time. There will probably be more copies to pop up, with patience.
MIC also made the dub for Honey Honey, an anime series aired on CBN, that is also a victim of Keep Circulating The Tapes. I recently discovered that 6 VHS tapes were released in that series by Sony. Google Images, however, only has images of the first episode Honey Honey VHS.
(Episode 1 and 6 have been ripped from these VHS’s and have been posted online. Episodes 2-5 have not. I am currently trying to get into contact with a Youtuber who may own an official Honey Honey Episode 2 VHS.)
Just got the tape today and digitized it about an hour ago, hoping to have it up online either by tomorrow or within the next few days. Thank you all for your patience!!
Just got the tape today and digitized it about an hour ago, hoping to have it up online either by tomorrow or within the next few days. Thank you all for your patience!!
Hi guys, made an account to post in this thread. I picked up this tape the other day and in researching it came across this thread. Wanted to ask if it was of any use to LMW?
Hi guys, made an account to post in this thread. I picked up this tape the other day and in researching it came across this thread. Wanted to ask if it was of any use to LMW?
Hi guys, made an account to post in this thread. I picked up this tape the other day and in researching it came across this thread. Wanted to ask if it was of any use to LMW?
Potentially yes, do you have a means of digitizing it?
Not at the moment as I am just restarting my VHS journey!
I would be happy to get it into the hands of someone who can though.
Might be worth seeing if Wesley Meade would be willing to do it. He's the guy that uploaded all of those episodes of Noah Knows Best earlier this year(he'd taped a marathon of them back in December of 2001).
Not at the moment as I am just restarting my VHS journey!
I would be happy to get it into the hands of someone who can though.
Might be worth seeing if Wesley Meade would be willing to do it. He's the guy that uploaded all of those episodes of Noah Knows Best earlier this year(he'd taped a marathon of them back in December of 2001).
Potentially yes, do you have a means of digitizing it?
Not at the moment as I am just restarting my VHS journey!
I would be happy to get it into the hands of someone who can though.
I use a Hauppauge Win TV HVR 955Q TV Tuner. This comes brand new with S-Video and composite inputs that attach via USB. It records to a .mpg file located wherever on your computer, in various qualities. Whatever VCR you buy will likely have composite input and output at the least. (It can also record via RF, but that's the lowest quality.)
Install the WinTV program, input the serial number that comes with the device to verify it, connect your VCR to it, hit record on the WinTV end, bob's your uncle.
Might be worth seeing if Wesley Meade would be willing to do it. He's the guy that uploaded all of those episodes of Noah Knows Best earlier this year(he'd taped a marathon of them back in December of 2001).
Is he a member here?
He did comment on the thread for Noah Knows Best but you'll probably have a better chance of reaching him on Twitter via DM: x.com/wesleymead