The “home video era” kicked off in 1977 when Magnetic Video Corporation pioneered the release of VHS tapes, introducing iconic “Video Cassettes” for home entertainment. As a dedicated collector, I focus on vintage VHS tapes from 1977 to 1982, prioritizing Magnetic Video’s groundbreaking releases, with select exceptions from 1982 to 1989. This era saw VHS and Betamax formats compete, with early adopters embracing films like The Panic in Needle Park (1971) and Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974) in their living rooms. Below is my curated collection of retro VHS tapes, ready to be refined by distributor for a nostalgic journey through home video history.
20th Century Fox Video
CBS/FOX Video
Catalina Home Video
Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
Diamond Productions
Embassy Home Entertainment
International Historic Films
Key Video
Lightning Video
Magnetic Video
Magnetic Video – South Pacific
Magnetic Video – U.K.
MCA Videocassette, Inc.
MGM/UA Home Video
MCA Videocassette, Inc.
MGM/CBS Home Video
MCA Videocassette, Inc.
Neon Video
Paramount (Home Video)
Andy Warhol Presents (Paramount Series)
Playhouse Video
RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video
THORN EMI Video Limited
Time Life Video
Warner Home Video
WCI Home Video
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and...
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter and goes to...
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has...
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
Even the most devout Star Wars fan might not know that filmmaker and journalist Michel Parbot was once given unprecedented access to the set, stars, and filmmakers behind The Empire Strikes Back. The resulting work, The Making of The Empire Strikes Back, has apparently never been commercially released. Most...
Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.
German newsreel
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
A typically Beatlesque film originally produced for television, this short film was intended to be an off-the-wall road movie with the Beatles and three dozen or so friends on a psychedelic bus.
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