They do, but they didn’t rewind as fast as rewinders. Those old Betamax/VHS/cassette tapes had a specific device called a rewinder used to literally rewind them.
@Miestwin. Who said it needed to follow one perspective? We can have the perspective switch after dealing with one character; that would be enough for a 20 min episode if we have 5 mins per character, or, we could have them be 3 - 5 min shorts following just one character each episode.