In 1987, Fisher-Price introduced a lightweight plastic camcorder that recorded video footage to an audio cassette. Fisher-Price marketed the PXL 2000, quickly dubbed “Pixelvision,” as the children’s ...

It was Christmas 1987 when Fisher-Price dropped its hot new high-tech gadget for kids: the PXL-2000. Weighing only two pounds and packaged with a 4.5–inch TV set for playback, this kiddie camcorder ...

The Fisher Price PXL-2000 Pixelvision camera runs on six AA batteries and records video and audio onto a cassette tape. It's very easy to use -- its only settings are "on" and "off" -- and it produces ...

There’s no other film festival quite like Gerry Fialka’s PXL This. Any film submitted is guaranteed to be shown. There are no fees, no awards. All Fialka asks of filmmakers is that they make at least ...

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Children may have hated it, but low-budget filmmakers loved it. The PXL 2000 camera, a toy originally targeted unsuccessfully at 10- to 16-year-olds, has inspired an art-house film movement called ...

Back in the late ’80s, the Fisher-Price company put out a toy video camera designed especially for children. The PXL 2000, or Pixelvision, recorded both video and sound on a standard audio cassette, ...

We have featured quite a few of Love Hultén’s cool creations here at Geeky Gadgets from his amazing Sputnik 0667 PC to the cool R-Kaid-6 retro video games console. His latest creation is called the ...

Compared to the audio quality of digital files and CDs, analog cassette tape was kind of awful. And as YouTube’s Kris Slyka discovered, it’s an even worse medium for recording and playing back video, ...

The hazy images of Kyle Cassidys Toy Soldiers (1996) evoke faint childhood memories. This short film expresses the hopes and anxieties of a small boy as he awaits the next news from his father who is ...

Following writer-director Michael Almereyda's remarkable "Hamlet" two years ago, "Happy Here and Now" is an affirmation of something Almereyda has been slowly building toward -- a cinematic ...