Magnetic Videography - 20th Century-Fox

"As you know, Magnetic Video was started by Andre Blay and Fox was the first studio he was able to license movies from. Movie studios weren't sure if there'd be much of a market for movies on tape, but when Magnetic Video was a success Fox ended up buying the company." - Jesse Skeen

FUN FACT: Fox, when they bought Magnetic, viewed it as a chance to recapture audiences that no longer go to the movies; Fox had market strategies which were supposed to help eliminate video pirates, and intended to launch new productions aimed specifically at the video market.

This chronicles all the Magnetic Video releases that were of 20th Century-Fox movies. Only seven catalogue numbers from the Fox series (which started at 1001) are known to have been blank. The years are those that the movie came out in, and the descriptions of those are best left to the TV Tropes article. There are notable quirks around some of the tapes that TVTropes doesn't mention, such as that early printings of CL-1037 (1h58m) had "Part 1" printed on both sides of the cardboard slipcover case.

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In lieu of a product description, early Magnetic Video releases had a list of the company's other titles on the back. As Magnetic's release inventory grew, they shortened a growing list from an increasingly overstuffed one to a more readable one, capped off with the inevitable "and many more". The font and background for the list eventually changed.

Early Magnetic releases had a brown bar and a black band reading "Magnetic Video Corporation" at the bottom:

Later ones had the text "MAGNETIC VIDEO - A TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX COMPANY" in between two red bars at the bottom:

There is also a variation of that label where the "MAGNETIC VIDEO" font is significantly larger; I will post that variation to DeviantArt as that hasn't been scanned yet.

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CL-1001 Hello, Dolly! (1969)
CL-1002 Fantastic Voyage (1966)
CL-1003 Von Ryan's Express (1965)
CL-1004 The King and I (1956)
CL-1005 Patton (1969)
CL-1006 The Hustler (1961)
CL-1007 The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
CL-1008 Cleopatra (1963)
CL-1009 The French Connection (1971)
CL-1010 The Only Game In Town (1969)
CL-1011 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
CL-1012 Hombre (1966)
CL-1013 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969)
CL-1014 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
CL-1015 The Boston Strangler (1968)
CL-1016 Can Can (1960)
CL-1017 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
CL-1018 The Detective (1968)
CL-1019 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
CL-1020 The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
CL-1021 The Longest Day (1962)
CL-1022 The Robe (1953)
CL-1023 How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
CL-1024 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
CL-1025 Doctor Dolittle (1967)
CL-1026 The Panic In Needle Park (1971)
CL-1027 The Marriage Of A Young Stockbroker (1971)
CL-1028 Vanishing Point (1971)
CL-1029 The Sand Pebbles (1966)
CL-1030 State Fair (1962)
CL-1031 Bus Stop (1956)
CL-1032 Three Coins In The Fountain (1954)
CL-1033 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
CL-1034 The Song of Bernadette (1943)
CL-1035 How to Steal a Million (1966)
CL-1036 From The Terrace (1960)
CL-1037 How Green Was My Valley (1941)
CL-1038 M*A*S*H (1969)
CL-1039 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (1955)
CL-1040 Anastasia (1956)
CL-1041 Boy On A Dolphin (1957)
CL-1042 The Hot Rock (1972)
CL-1043 The Seven Year Itch (1955)
CL-1044 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
CL-1045 The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
CL-1046 The Paper Chase (1973)
CL-1047 Valley of the Dolls (1967)
CL-1048 Carmen Jones (1954)
CL-1049 The Razors Edge (1946)
CL-1050 A Farewell to Arms (1957)
CL-1051 The Sound of Music (1965)
CL-1052 The Making of Star Wars (1977)
CL-1053 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
CL-1054 Planet of the Apes (1968)
CL-1055 Sky Riders (1976)
CL-1056 The Undefeated (1969)
CL-1057 The Young Lions (1958)
CL-1058 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
CL-1059 The Duchess And The Dirtwater Fox (1976)
CL-1060 100 Rifles (1968)
CL-1061 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
CL-1062 The Blue Max (1966)
CL-1063 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
CL-1064 The Strange Case of Alice Cooper (1979)
CL-1065 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
CL-1066 Heidi (1937)
CL-1067 Curly Top (1935)
CL-1068
CL-1069
CL-1070
CL-1071 The Towering Inferno (1974)
CL-1072 Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
CL-1073 Blood And Sand (1941)
CL-1074 The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
CL-1075 Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
CL-1076 All About Eve (1950)
CL-1077 Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
CL-1078 David Copperfield (1969)
CL-1079 The Omen (1976)
CL-1080 Silver Streak (1976)
CL-1081 Breaking Away (1979)
CL-1082 Norma Rae (1979)
CL-1083 The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
CL-1084 Two for the Road (1966)
CL-1085 Sleuth (1972)
CL-1086 Theres No Business Like Show Business (1954)
CL-1087 Damien: Omen II (1978)
CL-1088 An Unmarried Woman (1978)
CL-1089 The Turning Point (1977)
CL-1090 Alien (1979)
CL-1091 Julia (1977)
CL-1092 The Rose (1979)
CL-1093 A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
CL-1094 Laura (1944)
CL-1095 All That Jazz (1979)
CL-1096 Dreamer (1979)
CL-1097 The Fury (1978)
CL-1098 Brubaker (1980)
CL-1099 9 to 5 (1980)
CL-1100 At Long Last Love (1975)
CL-1101 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
CL-1102 Myra Breckinridge (1970)
CL-1103 Young Frankenstein (1974)
CL-1104 A Change Of Seasons (1980)
CL-1105 The Worlds Greatest Lover (1977)
CL-1106 Zorba the Greek (1964)
CL-1107 High Anxiety (1977)
CL-1108
CL-1109 Kagemusha (1980)
CL-1110 The Stunt Man (1980)
CL-1111 My Bodyguard (1980)
CL-1112
CL-1113
[Here, the company morphs into 20th Century-Fox Video; the tapes below suspiciously had the Magnetic Video logo to open select printings. Tapes made available for rental, including History of the World: Part 1 below, were later reissued for sale with all references to Magnetic replaced by references to 20th Century-Fox Video. Their oversized packaging was very similar to early CBS/Fox Video releases from 1982-1983, and have been nicknamed by some as "Fox Drawer Box" or simply "Fox Box". These were the final releases produced by Magnetic Video Corporation.]
CL-1114 History of the World Part I (1981)
CL-1115
CL-1116 Eyewitness (1981)
CL-1117
CL-1118
CL-1119 Chu Chu And The Philly Flash (1981)
CL-1120 Bedazzled (1967)