Video Kings
Video Kings

Video Kings

Copying videos illegally on a mass scale is one thing, but making a marketable product out of them is quite another. Just think of the most basic problem: language – your average customer won’t be a polyglot! The answer to that problem all over Central and Eastern Europe was a practice called rychlodabing, or speed dubbing in Czech, which consisted of one sole actor voicing all characters, with the original voices usually still audible beneath. This is how millions of people in the ČSSR encountered many forms of cinema for the first time in the 1980s, and how many foreign words became lodged (in a corrupted fashion) in everyday language. Some expressions (often curse words) were born. That’s popular culture at its liveliest. Video Kings is an oral history monument to the art of rychlodabing and some of its masters, as well as a collective reminiscence from a time of political transformation, and how ordinary people were agents of that change in extraordinary ways.

kid 90

kid 90

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VHS Revolution

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Chuck Norris vs Communism

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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Rewind This!

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Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

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Movie Hoarders: From VHS to DVD and Beyond!

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Comic Relief Zero

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Video World

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Videosyncracy

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A Tight, Warm Hug

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How to Make a Sandwich

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