Listen Online: Public Radio Program Airs Segment About Yale University Library’s Archive of Horror Movies on VHS

Here’s a 10 minute radio interview (embedded below) featuring:

• David Gary, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library
• Aaron Pratt, Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale University and VHS aficionado

The Interview aired today on “Here and Now” a public radio program that is heard on public radio stations around the U.S.
From a Hear and Now Web Page:

The Yale University library has acquired a collection of about 2,700 VHS tapes – mostly horror and exploitation films.
The tapes are part of a new archive – the first of its kind at an academic institution – that preserves VHS tapes not only for the movies on them, but also for their boxes’ artwork and copy, the trailers at the beginning and other release-specific content.

Direct to Text Highlights from the Interview
Direct to Yale Daily News Article About Archive
Direct to  Yale library acquires blockbuster collection of ’70s and ’80s VHS tapes (via New Haven Register)

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