Vintage Hockey Cards in Video Form

The 'Virtual Hockey Card Collection' has been a massive undertaking at Vintage Hockey Cards
Report and completion is still off in the distance. In fact, completion may never happen. Oh, we do plan to have every card from 1951-52 Parkhurst to 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee posted in the collection (maybe by the end of 2016). But then, it's onward to pre-Parkhurst sets, minor league sets, European sets, etc., etc., etc.

A fun thing we've added to the site and we're doing for every completed set are slideshow videos. The set videos feature all cards in numeric order, blended with some nice background music.

The videos are hosted on YouTube and can be accessed by the links below. If you want to play them all, click on the playlist below the links. Some would find it mind-numbing and boring but, if you're visiting this site, chances are this would be something that would make a great time-waster while trying to push your way through the long work day!

The title image 'art' you see with each video (like the one shown in this article) is getting more and more elaborate as we move forward. If any of the images interest you, throw a comment on this article or email tom@vintagehockeycardsreport.com and we'll send you the full size file - free of charge. For the image above, featuring the highlights of the 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee set, you should be able to just click on the image to get the full size file - then just right click and 'save image as'...


Montreal Canadiens Vintage Hockey Cards
Toronto Maple Leafs Vintage Hockey Cards
Chicago Blackhawks Vintage Hockey Cards
Detroit Red Wings Vintage Hockey Cards
New York Rangers Vintage Hockey Cards
Boston Bruins Vintage Hockey Cards
Parkhurst Hockey Cards
1958-59 Topps Complete Set
1959-60 Parkhurst Complete Set
1959-60 Topps Complete Set
1960-61 Parkhurst Complete Set
1962-63 Parkhurst Complete Set
1971-72 O-Pee-Chee Complete Set

Vintage Hockey Card Video Series

As I write this, I'm fighting with some sort of glitch that is freezing up the upload for the final of six videos featuring vintage hockey cards from the NHL's Original 6 teams. This is just a shout out to anyone reading 'Hockey History Hub' that these videos are nearly 100% online at YouTube. If you're reading something here and enjoying this site, then chances are you'll want to kill some time looking at some of the greatest in the game's history on some classic cardboard.

Each of the Original 6 team videos has at least 100 different vintage hockey cards and each video lasts between three and five minutes. Each is produced with what I think is some pretty great background music. So, if you're at work, yes - there is audio so turn it down...

Mostly, the cards are from the 1951-52 to 1979-80 range and come from sets produced by Parkhurst, Topps and O-Pee-Chee. There are cards from before and after the range in some of the videos but not a whole lot. Because it just didn't look right to have 'landscape' card fronts mixed with the usual 'portrait' fronts, some years have been left out. These would be your 1963-64 Topps, 1968-69 O-Pee-Chee and sets like that. Also, we didn't put in any of the 1964-65 Topps tallboys because they just wouldn't fit the format (yep, I'm a little anal about that stuff...).

All the cards are included in the Virtual Hockey Card Collection at Vintage Hockey Cards Report. This is what is becoming a fairly complete online collection of hockey cards (front and back). This is a project that I hope will expand beyond the NHL and the range of years given above. I plan to move into minor league, junior and even European sets in the relatively near future. It's pretty time consuming, though. The images have to be collected, straightened, cropped then added to a template and uploaded. I'm not the most technical so my method is pretty labour intensive (aka slow).

I've embedded one of the videos below to give you a taste. Hopefully you'll head over to the YouTube channel to check out the others. Links to each video are found in the index of the Virtual Collection. I've also grouped them into a clean and tidy YouTube playlist so they can be watched consecutively without having to keep hitting play...

The video below features the Chicago Blackhawks. Of course, there's a fair share of Bobby Hull, Glenn Hall and Stan Mikita cards but there's a lot more there, as well. Be sure to hit the Thumb's Up if you like it!