1987 & 1988 'Sears Service Center' Xmas parties/award ceremonies
 

Right here.

^It's two typical Pittsburgh-area work parties with "years of service" tributes from a bygone era. Comes complete with the district manager "apologizing" for not being around much and gifting certificates and/or gold watches to persons who spent years/decades of their life promoting the cause of a single corporation.

Ironically, their camcorder wasn't properly calibrated in spite of the test footage and being near all of those technicians.

Thanks - an interesting slice of life.

Not sure what you mean about calibration? Seems like pretty typical results for a camcorder of that time. Messed up a bit by some sort of image stabilizing that was applied before posting to YouTube (note the date wandering around).

Also typical amateur camera handling - no concept that in most cases you need to anchor the camera and let things in the scene move. Makes me too dizzy to watch it for long.

The tearing at the top of the screen suggests that the back tension wasn't properly adjusted.

Probably also causing those damaged sections of tape.

Note the quick flickering back and forth, along with the slow periodic change as the tape reel rotates. This indicates two things:
1) the video capture card used did not have a fast horizontal sync, as was designed into TVs after the introduction of home VCRs
2) the slow variation one direction and the other indicates that the average tension was correct, but when the H timing after the head switch was periodically off by a significant part of a line, the capture card had too slow a H response to pull it in quickly in the first few lines, as a TV set would.

A capture card with a good frame synchronizer would have fixed this.

A really nice time capsule, kind of showing what office life was like in general (not just at Sears). Sad to see how much things have changed at "world's largest store" since then. That's quite a back office they had. I only watched a portion but will have to go back and check out more when time permits.

Makes me wonder which capture device they were using. Even a cheap UVC card has better performance in that respect.

Shows how beautiful things still were for the most part in 1988.....

Thanx for the vid!

No kidding, Y2K did bring about a major crash, it just wasn't the computers.

U.S.S Lexington, Hood and Potemkin standing by in case of total takeover by computers.