TWO independent documentaries about VHS tapes came out at the same time and that’s okay. If you’re into this topic, you’ve got room in your heart for both (the other one is Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector). The collectors interviewed here own an average of 58,000 tapes each (my own very scientific estimate). Excess is fine in this scene. Both movies feature several of the same talking heads saying the same things. The main difference is that this one brings in veteran filmmakers, performers and independent home video company heads to offer insights about how the medium changed the industry. More than a fetish piece about little black boxes full of tape, this is also a lesson about a unique time in film history. What was the 1980s video boom like for independents? How did they take advantage of the big studios’ slower adoption of the new format? How did some movie bootleggers from the time eventually turn their operations into legit companies? Here, guys like Frank Henenlotter, Charles Band and Kevin Tenney have the answers because they saw it all happen from behind the scenes with their own movies in the fray and on the shelves. For that reason, this is the more valuable of the two docs, though both are entertaining looks at a world long gone and the eccentric collector underground for it all that still exists.