Video - 1997

Introduction
Dad bought my brother Rick Arnold a VHS camcorder in 1996 for his birthday. Here are some if not all of the videos we made with family and friends in 1997, this is a continuation of the videos we made in 1996 in the ghetto in Forest Grove, Oregon. My dad was born in Los Angeles on the 26th of September of 1950. My brother was born on the 5th of February of 1982. I was born on the 11th of February of 1985. In 1997, my brother turned 15 years old, I turned 12. The following video is around an hour long, it has around thirty minutes of home videos and also random things recorded via VCRs of whatever was on television, that is the TV, and even cable as we had cable in 1997. We probably had cable for a few years in the 1990s, possibly on and off. We also started having computers and even the Internet at home starting in like the second half of the 90s.

1997
The 1997 video collection of the Arnold Attic

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1997 Videos
Outline of our home videos

1997-01-19
00:00 - Dad drove me and my brother to a storage unit in Vancouver, WA. My dad would work like landscaping jobs, yard work, since probably the 1950s, I imagine my dad did do some work as a kid. My dad also had other jobs too on and off during his life. But when my dad wasn't doing other things, his default was usually like landscaping related jobs. I didn't really work for my dad a lot until like 1994 when I was nine. So, dad probably eventually started paying me like a dollar an hour. Starting in like 1997 or after that, dad was paying me like $3/hr. So, on this 19th day of January of 1997, we were doing landscaping at a storage unit cleaning out like a few storage units, sweeping, cleaning, spraying with a water hose, weeding. But also, I was snacking on whatever snacks were in the car like potato chips and stuff. I was singing. Rick recorded me a little. Filmed in January of 1997.

03:06 - Across the bridge
03:50 - Look at me song by Joey
04:52 - Ask me another question, Joey in a TMNT shirt, LEGO ships, Bart. This first section from the 19th day of January of 1997 is around six minutes long in total.

1997-01-31 - 07:09 PM
06:15 - SNES Pit Fighters - 164 David, Joey, Crystal, Rick, Katie
07:31 - "It's not my fault I died." --Joey

1997-02-07 - Friday
09:18 - Rick tabs me, I say stop recording because I was worried we would run out of space on the VHS tape and that the camcorder battery would be drained before tomorrow. Two minutes.

1997-02-08 - Saturday
11:14 - Basketball at Tom McCall Upper Elementary School, you can see me in the white shorts running in a weird way differently than the other people, some might even say I must be retarded riding the short bus based on this. Mom and Crystal are trying to record with the camcorder, mom struggles and blames Crystal. Filmed in February of 1997. Around six minutes.

1997-03-07 - 09:11 AM
17:01 - Power Rangers 3 starring Joey, Crystal, and Poofer the cat. I didn't finish this film but shot a few scenes. Filmed in March of 1997.
18:25 - Poofer as Loxx Catt, the main villain of the movie

1997-04-13 - 06:29 AM
22:34 - Rick recorded as mom lost weight.

1997-04-13 - 06:37 AM
22:55 - Power Rangers skit where they destroy Rangers. They being me, Crystal, Bill. Recorded by Rick.

1997-04-13 - 06:39 AM
23:12 - Backyard hoops with Rick, Crystal, me, and some random man standing in the background. There is an upside-down wagon taxi I was building.
23:38 - Puffer sleeping in the plates and bowls and cups cabinet above the counter by the sink. After that, you see me. Bill is playing a cave man Mario like game on like a Tandy video game console.
24:43 - Prank Calling - Joey, Rick, Bill
26:21 - Rick climbs a tree. Rick fights me. I fall in the mud.
26:16 - Rick Slam Dunking
29:11 - Michael Jackson Impression by Joey Arnold
29:57 - Rick to enter the house of a giant skit
30:24 - Rick jumps off the Attic shed followed with me dancing like a clown. After that, Rick on the house throwing a paper airplane. Katie for a second.
32:01 - Crystal & Tiffany Show
32:57 - Disney Newsies: Look At Me I'm The King of New York cover by Joey Arnold. Rick records his like outside room in the Attic shed
34:06 - Television
42:47 - Independence Day movie with Will Smith on VHS commercial
42:51 - Runaway Lady is a stop-go clay-mation-style movie with toys moving around, voiced by Joey, filmed by Rick. The lady is this like troll girl toy.
46:27 - Back to TV including a Mitsubishi big screen television sets commercial of zero interest until January 1998. It also had a date of the first of September of 1996 which is likely when that commercial first premiered on TV or when it was being made. Another date was the 2nd of December 1996. This was a Magnolia Hi-Fi store commercial with locations like Beaverton. AT&T Imagine. Oregon 12 channel. UFO story. Coco Cola Christmas 1996 ad. Pay N' Talk.
53:16 - Matlock on the Superstation

1997-09-01 - Monday
57:11 - CNN on the death of Princess Diana

1997-08-31 - Sunday - 08:29:24 PM
1:00:53 - The TV Guide channel - 1985 St. Elmo's Fire on 44 HBO, 1988 Punchline on 45 MAX, 1986 Top Gun on 46 TMC, Eddie on 47 Starz, Mysteries of the Bible on 48 A&E, 1996 Jerry Maguire on Req 52, Things Change on 57 ENC, Bob Newwhart on 31 Nick. 99 Prevue channel at prevue.com. 1 PREV. So, the Prevue channel was on channels 99 and/or it also said channel 1 as well. 3 KNMT TBN: Praise The Lord. 4 KATU ABC: America's Funniest Home Videos. 5 KOIN CBS: Touch By An Angel. 10 KOPB PBS. 13 KPDX FOX: King of The Hill, X-Files. 32 MTV: Daria, Beavis and Butt-Head. 41 TOON: Dexter's Laboratory.

Princess Diana
1:04:02 - On the life and death of Princess Diana of Wales: 1961-1997 on ABC News where they say trust us as the death is controversial but you can trust us, you can follow us on TV and also online at ABCnews.com.

1997-09-01 - Monday - 8:35 PM CT
1:05:44 - Steven Seagal on CNN on Larry King. 8:37 PM CT: Larry with Time Magazine Scott MacLeod. Fox News. The Tick. Robin Williams on Comic Relief.

1997-09-01 - Monday - 11:48 AM CT
1:12:36 - CNN: the life and Death of Princess Diana
1:13:45 - End of tape.

Conclusion
This is the end of the outline of most if not all of the home videos we made in 1997. But some of the videos might have been filmed in 1996 which might include say Runaway Lady. There might be videos in my 1996 collection that were actually filmed in 1997. I tried my best to give you the most original version of these videos. I tried putting together the best versions of these videos in this collage. There might be typos, errors, issues. Treat this as a rough draft outline. Treat this as version 1 of the 1997 collection. I didn't want to focus on say all of the VCR recorded videos we might have recorded in 1997 but I did include some if not most of it. I wanted to focus on the Arnold Attic home videos that we filmed via the camcorder or camcorders. I wanted this post to attempt to outline and comment on these videos for the record, the history books. I tried making sure the time stamps, dates, locations, details, descriptions, commentary, people, places, things, etc, are as accurate as possible, but there still may be mistakes and what not, to be continued.