Seattle is home to one of the largest publicly-available movie collections in the world. Scarecrow Video has been renting and selling films in the city for 36 years. But now, they’re in trouble. The ...

It’s hard out there for a video store when it’s trying to get money for the rent. Look no further than our old friends at Scarecrow Video in Seattle, Washington. We last wrote about them in 2014, when ...

From the rise of streaming video to the Covid pandemic, Seattle's cherished Scarecrow Video has survived challenge after challenge. Now, it admits it needs help — $1.8 million in help, to be exact.

A lot has changed since film lovers "saved" Scarecrow Video. This time last year, Seattle's flagship video store - home to the world's largest collection of physical media accessible to the public - ...

Want to help keep physical media alive? Help Scarecrow Video save their store. Scarecrow Video began in the late ‘80s under the stewardship of George and Rebecca Latsios, but opened its current ...

In the beginning there was a few hundred tapes in the back of a record store. Thirty years later, it's an institution with more than 131,000 titles. That's the magic of Scarecrow. It's a journey that ...

When Scarecrow Video began its pilot rent-by-mail program back in fall 2019, things were decidedly low-tech. Executive director Kate Barr, describing the system as held together by “bubble gum and ...

Did you know that Saturday is International Independent Video Store Day? Scarecrow Video will celebrate with a VHS art show; a special rental section of movies and TV shows shot in and around Seattle; ...

Happy Juneteenth! On this day in 1865, Union soldiers marched on Galveston Bay, Texas to announce that the more than 250,000 enslaved people in the state were free. It’s a nice day ahead for those ...

A year since its fundraising campaign, Scarecrow Video shared next steps with IndieWire. “If indeed Scarecrow shuttered and went out of business, I would feel guilty forever,” said executive director ...