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The Bones Brigade Video Show

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7719117 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bones Brigade Video Show is a 1984 skateboarding video, produced by Stacy Peralta and Craig Stecyk.

It was the first of several videos produced by the Powell Peralta company, and showcased members of the Bones Brigade skateboarding team, including Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta, and Per Welinder.

It was expected to sell just 300 copies on VHS, but it sold 30,000.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Bones Brigade Video Show” as film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bones, Brigade and Video.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bones, Brigade and Video providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Bones Brigade Video Show”, the useful work is to connect “film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7719117. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Bones Brigade Video Show”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Bones Brigade Video Show primary sources, The Bones Brigade Video Show archive and Bones research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Bones Brigade Video Show” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.