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VHS 1994
Date-stamped, scan-lined home video.
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How this one runs
From text · 8s · 4:3 · SEEDANCE 2.0 FAST
What this effect is
VHS stored colour separately from brightness at far lower resolution, so reds bleed past their edges, scan lines show, and the picture floats. The date stamp burned into the corner is what instantly relocates a scene into the nineties.
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