A growing, direct catalog of consumer VHS releases: the Disney clamshells, the studio sell-throughs, the ex-rental big boxes, and the strange foil-and-scented oddities. Search the archive, then track exactly which tapes you own.
Catalog numbers are transcribed from collector references and verified where possible. Spot an error or a missing tape? This archive is built to grow. Accuracy over volume.
The packaging is half the hobby. Here is what each case type in the archive actually looks like. Click any card to filter the catalog to that shell.
Reference photos via Wikimedia Commons: bare cassette © Toby Hudson (CC BY-SA 2.5 AU); clamshell & slim plastic case © BrokenSphere (CC BY-SA 3.0). Remaining types shown as diagrams pending a verified photo.
Tap Own on any tape in the catalog and it lands here. Everything is stored privately in this browser — nothing leaves your machine.
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From 1977 to the mid-2000s, VHS was how the world watched movies at home. This archive catalogs the tapes themselves — not just the films, but the physical releases: the line they belonged to, the shell they shipped in, the catalog number stamped on the spine.
Particular care goes to the Disney clamshells — the Black Diamond Classics, the Masterpiece Collection, the Gold Classic reissues — alongside the ex-rental big boxes, the studio sell-throughs, and the genuine oddities: foil covers, scented tapes, VCR board games, and rental-store exclusives.
If a title never came out on VHS, it is not here. That is the whole point.