Home video from 1989 Huntsville, AL

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Eric Fullerton's first video camera was a black-and-white surveillance camera his dad found in a dumpster behind at a shuttering local K-Mart and then gave to him. It didn't have working power or recording, so they built a power supply from parts they picked up at Radio Shack, attached a Nikon zoom lens and wired the camera to the family VCR.

Fullerton was 8 years old at the time. The year was 1986. The city was Huntsville, Ala., where his father Larry Fullerton worked as an electrical engineer and inventor of devices ranging from coin sorters to collision-prevention.

For decades, Fullerton has kept boxes and boxes of VHS and 8mm tapes chronicling his youth. In the summer of 2016, he began uploading some of these videos to a YouTube channel. “It was a place to show my family old videos and just something to laugh at,” he says. But then, random people started commenting on the videos and subscribing to the channel, titled Eric’s Home Movies. “I was a little weirded out, because I didn’t expect anyone to even come across them,” he says. He decided to embrace it and put together a very-’80s-synth-scored video-trailer explaining the channel.

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