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
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
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book is given the full treatment in this lavish retelling filled with huge sets, exotic animals, a large cast and the incomparable Sabu, starring as Mowgli, the young orphan boy raised by wolves. Curious to reconnect with his human village, Mowgli returns only to find disappointment...
Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
Chevy Chase makes his film debut in this riotous collection of live skits. Directed by Ken Shapiro and featuring Chase, Richard Belzer and others, The Groove Tube mocks TV Land and its trappings by spoofing kids' shows -- from a marijuana-smoking Koko the Clown who resides in Make Believe...
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town...
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
In 1975, The Charlie Daniels Band performed the second of their legendary Volunteer Jams at Middle Tennessee Statue University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This annual event featured a number of special guests, including The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts and Chuck Leavell from the Allman Brothers band, Jimmy Hall, Dru...
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him...
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