Old Tapes – Fashion Parades

Younger people reading this blog may not remember cassette tapes. They were used to copy albums before recordable CD’s. In fact my first CD writer cost me $1400 and blanks were about $14 each. And yes, I did have a business need for it. And it made it’s money back.

Anyway I have audio tapes here dating back to school days. And where appropriate I have been digitizing these, so that they can be placed on DVD or CD. Right now I have done probably a bit under 10 hours of digitizing. Much of this stuff is archival. Like the backup recording of a time capsule that was placed at my highschool for the bicentenial (with some other stuff, one item of which is a practical joke).

Anyway I have found the audio tapes I made for the school fashion parades. These were not your normal fashion parades. You needed to actually be in clothes you made in class, and also you needed to do it choreagraphed to music. And yes, I was in the parade… With a couple of suites I made, one for my Year 10 formal, and one based on the 1920’s, and some other clothes. Whilst I have some of this on video, I was amazed to find the audio tapes I put together for the show.

I really am surprised the teachers got away with some of it. It was great fun. When I was in year 10 I almost got to run the show… I designed the tickets, typed up the list of students who would not be in class, set up lighting, set up music, performed, stage managed, everything. It was great fun…

One day I will have to move the raw video to DVD too…