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Today, over 60,000,000 videocassettes will be shipped in less than 60 days, and somehow, over 100,000 retail stores and millions of direct mail catalogs can somehow sell all of it.” - Ben M. Tenn, Best Film & Video Corp. (1990)

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

by | May 16, 2022 | Distributors | 0 Comments

Background 20th Century Fox was born in 1935 as the result of a merger between two other studios, Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corp. During this time, the studio mainly made biopics and musicals, with stars such as Betty Grable, Shirley Temple and Alice...
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Display Box (Packaging)

by | May 12, 2022 | Home Video | 0 Comments

Introduction Display boxes (more commonly referred to as big boxes) were first introduced to the home video market in 1981 by either Caballero Control, TVX or Family Home Entertainment.  Although most of the releases which used this...
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