Here's a closer look at yesterday's German car boot €10 bargain haul of old cars and VHS.
Lots of SIKU, some Matchbox and a Japanese Hinshei crane.
The SIKU vehicles, like the yellow tow truck and the orange trailer, are really solid. All of them say made in Germany so are post-unification in 1989. Exact dates I'm unsure of.
I love the SIKU ADAC Prufdienst trailer, in which cars drive through to be checked! The Crane to the right is Japanese, my first MINI Power vehicle.
Here's some odds n odds too. Apart from the helicopter rotor I don't recognize any of the spare parts. You?
For the old big box* VHS videos I got - one of my collecting passions - I chose this lovely 1880 cabinet in the flat to photograph them.
Eh voila!
I had thought they were all unrated, i.e. no age limit marked on them, which in the UK is known as pre- cert or pre-certificate and typically early to mid 1980's, but these German big boxes are all age rated.
At this point I'm sure if unrated videos exist in Germany. Do they exist in your country readers?
* Big box refers to the much bigger boxes of early VHS video cassettes from the 1980's. They can be solid plastic/ thick card or slightly padded plastic clamshells.
Have you got any readers?
At one point NZ had separate Chief Censor of Films, the Indecent Publications Tribunal (est. 1963 for books, magazines, and sound recordings), and the Video Recordings Authority (est. 1987). Then in 1993 they were merged in to one body, the Office of Film and Literature Classification, which controls everything.
ReplyDeleteDid early 80s VHS videos get age rated by either of these two bodies Paul or were some unrated in NZ?
DeleteThe white container with the cross fits under the Corgi Skycrane copter. The rotor is part of it too, as it's a six blade one. Love that Battlekings Transporter! Bill
ReplyDeleteThe red a-frame probably clips into the slots on the top of the White Sea container, so it can be lifted by copter too.
DeleteDoes the orange roof fit on the back of the yellow truck at the front?
DeleteIn the 1980s the NZ Film Censor dealt with a limited number of video tapes. But at the time existing regulations did not really cover tapes viewed in the home, as opposed to films shown in movie theatres, or broadcast on television. Some tapes had an R18 rating (equivalent to a British 18, and not the same as a British R18) which meant Restricted to those 18 and over. With the arrival of the Video Recordings Authority in 1987, there were age classifications, with labels affixed to the videotapes and their cases. This system continued once the three separate bodies were combined in to the Office of Film and Literature Classification, which now covers everything.
ReplyDeleteFascinating Paul. Thanks.
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