The first day of owning Homegrown Video
In 1992, Homegrown Video was sold by blind auction in a bankruptcy proceeding in San Diego. Only a few turned up to bid, and we were lucky enough to win it, apparently the others put a lot less up and we won by a wide margin. Of course we could've kicked ourselves senseless for not shooting lower for a better bargain but we were happy. We knew even at the price we paid that we were still getting an incredible deal.
We didn't care about the old editing system, and the video duplicators were in a shambles. All that mattered was getting the rights to the immense library, amateur videos submitted since 1982 and still coming in despite the company's difficulties. In fact, the was a box of tapes that had been submitted but not yet purchased that even included the original tapes of my amateur porn movies that I had sent in almost a year prior.
We had a few things to do immediately. First we had to get rid of all the junk copies of videos that were recorded on such poor quality cassettes that they would literally destroy a person's vcr. These were the inventory of the original owner and part of the reason for his demise. Rumor held that some shady and desperate deals with the Israeli mob had been the problem. They had destroyed the companies credit, bleeding all the cash out of the business, while manufacturing such low-grade copies of the videos on the worst cassettes possible. Unhappy distributors would them send back in huge boxes. Half the tapes would be broken and the rest were on the verge of breaking. We spent about eight hours throwing them against a brick wall, our first official act of being in business. By the end, there was literally a pile of broken vhs cassettes and magnetic tape about five feet high.
The next order of business was to look in the box of videos that had been submitted but not yet paid for...
(tbc)
We didn't care about the old editing system, and the video duplicators were in a shambles. All that mattered was getting the rights to the immense library, amateur videos submitted since 1982 and still coming in despite the company's difficulties. In fact, the was a box of tapes that had been submitted but not yet purchased that even included the original tapes of my amateur porn movies that I had sent in almost a year prior.
We had a few things to do immediately. First we had to get rid of all the junk copies of videos that were recorded on such poor quality cassettes that they would literally destroy a person's vcr. These were the inventory of the original owner and part of the reason for his demise. Rumor held that some shady and desperate deals with the Israeli mob had been the problem. They had destroyed the companies credit, bleeding all the cash out of the business, while manufacturing such low-grade copies of the videos on the worst cassettes possible. Unhappy distributors would them send back in huge boxes. Half the tapes would be broken and the rest were on the verge of breaking. We spent about eight hours throwing them against a brick wall, our first official act of being in business. By the end, there was literally a pile of broken vhs cassettes and magnetic tape about five feet high.
The next order of business was to look in the box of videos that had been submitted but not yet paid for...
(tbc)
12 лет назад
