What if video was just a commodity, a piece of scenery like any other, that could be forgotten, reused, or re-recorded over and over? This is the question raised by this text, which traces the thread of a multi-site ethnography, observing both the situations in which vernacular videos are shot in Romania and the human and material circulation of video technologies. At the intersection of visual anthropology and media archaeology, this research offers both an initial chronology and mapping of the video medium in Romania and a perspective on the methods and objects of film history, which is closely linked to film archives and their preservation.