# Short film from the 80's about flesh-eating videotape
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 14, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779 "2012-02-14T01:45:54Z")
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### Author:  [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779/1 "2012-02-14T01:45:54Z")
If you’re of a certain age and had HBO as a child, you may remember a short film about a guy being hunted down in an office by flesh-eating reels of videotape…
I just found it on YouTube! It’s called [“Recorded Alive”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro) and it was apparently a student film from 1975 that HBO would air on a show called _Short Takes_.
I’m sure it looks laughably hokey to today’s viewers, but I remember it as being one of the most disturbingly horrific things I watched as a youngster. Clearly, judging from the comments section, I wasn’t the only one.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779/2 "2012-02-14T13:54:21Z")
Wow, it was so cool to see that again. I remember well that my brother and I would drop whatever we were doing to see that one, and I hadn’t thought of it in years! Thanks, **B. Serum**.
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779/3 "2012-02-14T17:28:54Z")
I remember that. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779/4 "2012-02-14T18:43:07Z")
> [@B.Serum](#):
>
> If you’re of a certain age and had HBO as a child, you may remember a short film about a guy being hunted down in an office by flesh-eating reels of videotape…
>
> I just found it on YouTube! It’s called [“Recorded Alive”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro) and it was apparently a student film from 1975 that HBO would air on a show called _Short Takes_.
>
> I’m sure it looks laughably hokey to today’s viewers, but I remember it as being one of the most disturbingly horrific things I watched as a youngster. Clearly, judging from the comments section, I wasn’t the only one.
OMFG THANK YOU!
I know I’ve posted about this film here before, and despite my immense google-fu skills, I’ve never been able to find that movie!
YOU TOTALLY FUCKING ROCK!!!
ETA: This, along with the original cut of _Hardware Wars_, are two of the greatest short films ever made. Now if only I could find a copy of that on DVD for purchase…
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-film-from-the-80s-about-flesh-eating-videotape/612779/5 "2012-02-14T18:48:40Z")
[Found it](http://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Wars-30th-Anniversary-Collectors/dp/B001OTSFE4/ref=lh_ni_t)! WOOT!