Home Movies: Vintage Camcorder

Your phone is probably full of videos. Thousands of them. A dog doing something weird. Half a concert. Someone’s birthday cake. Fourteen seconds of fireworks. A suspicious number of videos accidentally pointed at the floor. And someday your phone will helpfully remind you that one of these things happened six years ago. We thought we could do better. Remember the camcorder? You didn’t pull it out to manufacture a post. You recorded Christmas morning. The birthday party. The road trip. The summer of ’98. You kept recording. And eventually you had a tape. A tape had a beginning. It had an end. It had terrible camera work. It had people talking to whoever was holding the camera. It had boring parts that somehow became the best parts twenty years later. Most importantly, you actually watched it again. Home Movies brings that idea back. Instead of treating every little recording as another…