First Snow Tape

Authentic 1980s VHS home-video look: heavy analog static and snow, rolling horizontal tracking-distortion bands, visible scanlines, chromatic color-bleed smear, ghosting trails on movement, soft washed-out tape resolution, a glowing camcorder date-and-time stamp burned into the lower-right corner reading 'JAN 15 1984 9:12AM'. Bright winter morning. A snowy front yard. A person bundled in a scarf builds a snowman then turns and throws a snowball at the camera, laughing. Wobbly handheld zoom, a sled, drifting flakes. Cold flat light through tape haze. Tape warble, rewound-memory feel, 24fps.