As The World Turns Discussion Thread

[danfling]

As a Southern man, I resent the phrase "went south" as a description of something bad.

 

[gimmetoo]

Does anyone know an easy online tutorial for converting VHS to digital files for youtube ?  

I have hundreds of old VHS tapes w/ ATWT and other soaps.  Likely most of what I have is already up -- late 80s / early 90s.  But now that we know the originals have been destroyed, I really need to convert and preserve them.

 

 

[antmunoz]

The island. I’d pay anything to see Vienna again!

[Soapsuds]

@AbcNbc247

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[AbcNbc247]

Van

The reason I started watching ATWT 

Too bad I was late to the party. The 90s stuff I’ve seen seems really good

[Soapsuds]

He was my favorite but once Eric came on the show ...he wasn't anymore.  Then he fell even further when Chandler showed up. 

He still looks really good and it was nice seeing him in the reunion.

Edited August 8, 2022 by Soapsuds

[AbcNbc247]

He hasn’t aged a day

[Soapsuds]

Nope it's all the gay sex he's having!

Keeps you young!

[Chris B]

I know I'm late, but I'm devastated by the news Colleen shared. That is an evil, spiteful move. As many have said, this material could've been donated or cheaply sold to another company if they just wanted it off their hands. We know many people wanted to buy or license their collection out. Why just throw it out? That's literally history. 

[blueberrywaffle]

When Royce and Emily were in Italy in 1993 did they really film it in Italy?

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[MarlandFan]

The exteriors, yes.  I believe they also filmed the "Holden-searching-for-Lily" scenes at the same time, but for later airing.  These were the scenes that re-introduced Martha Byrne to the show.

[Soapsuds]

John James recently said he wanted to buy it but they wouldn't sell.

[Chris B]

The guy who runs the Pop network has mentioned trying to buy it too and we know RetroTV tried to license the shows as well, but that didn't happen. Even if it was as simple as wanting to have ownership of the titles to do reboots/remakes, you can't convince me someone would've bought them, which is why this is so frustrating.

[Vee]

I'll just say I have a hard time believing P&G went out of their way to wipe everything. This isn't the '60s or the '70s, and the needs and time expenditure are different. Someone has an archive somewhere, and whatever the actual company doesn't have left there's always more among random affiliates, private collectors, performers, personnel, etc. I just can't buy that in this day and age. Not because I think they care about the soaps - they don't - but it just seems like there's too many ways in this day and age that this stuff could slip through the cracks and survive.

Edited August 9, 2022 by Vee

[Soapsuds]

Allyson Rice who played Connor said she had lots of VHS tapes from her time on the show. I wish someone would get in contact with her again to see if she or someone else can upload them. Allyson said she wanted to upload them.