My vcr won't play tapes

My vcr won't play tapes I bought a Emerson vcr to clean my moldy tapes and when I got home to try and see if it worked it would not play the tape (I tried multiple tapes) it won't fast forward nor rewind and when I tired to see if the motor worked manually it did but it won't work when I put tapes in it also shuts off after seconds of putting a tape in ANSWERS:
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