Back from Bookman's: A VHS Update · 11:17pm Jan 26th, 2017
Three of the openings are being done already. Would have done the openings to GALAXY QUEST and QUICK CHANGE but they are copy protected tapes and as such I will film them off the TV.
Three of the openings are being done already. Would have done the openings to GALAXY QUEST and QUICK CHANGE but they are copy protected tapes and as such I will film them off the TV.
By 1984, Media was on a roll, hitting home runs with titles that appealed in many categories. It now had home video rights to titles from Cannon (everything from Mannequin to the Cannon Fairy Tales series) and New Line Cinema (most notably the first five Nightmare on Elm Street films). The company also released certain films of New World Pictures before it launched its own label (the C.H.U.D. movies), United Film Distribution Company (Choke Canyon, Day of the Dead) and an uncredited TriStar
I have decided to re-film all my MGMvideo collections to reflect new changes to the structure of this collection. Here, I introduce you to it:
Media's early releases, with unknown stock numbers, were Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Fantasy, Superman, Flash Gordon: Mars Attacks the World, Fairy Tales, Ribald Tales of Robin Hood, The Beatles Live in Tokyo, Swinging Ski Girls, Swinging Sorority Girls, Slaves of Love, Reefer Madness, Sex and the Office Girl, The Stones in the Park, Flesh Gordon, Nine Ages of Nakedness, Fantasy in Blue, The Beatles at Shea Stadium, Auditions, Hey, There's Naked Bodies on My TV!, March of the Wooden
Danny DeVito's fascinating 1996 effort is about a young genius named Matilda, who uses telekinesis to deal with her parents, who do not value education, and the confrontation she and her teacher Miss Honey have with Agatha Trunchbull, the oppressive principal of Crunchem Hall Elementary School. The film was a huge hit outside the United States and was highly appraised worldwide. DeVito got his big break via the TV series Taxi and began his career as a
Bootleg VHS tapes in the collection of Buger Sirmon; their openings. Companion blog: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/698117/the-bootleg-dvd-extravaganza
Tapes:
- DOWN TO EARTH
- DRUMLINE
I went to the Assistance League (where I haven't been since February 2015) after spending an hour in the Botanical Gardens. This is what I've acquired there; I will also show the LPs that I got off eBay for Chanukah so far.
EDIT: Forgot to put the video there!
SUBJECT OF THE DAY:
Argentinean VHS Tapes!
AVH: Argentina's home for all your favourite things that come from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and even Paramount (via CIC of course!)
*Video available in 720p quality.
A look at a French-Canadian VHS of The Sword in the Stone, and a Spanish-language VHS of Alice in Wonderland.
As you may have noticed from the update I did on YouTube today, I got 3 Venezuelan VHS tapes.
I'll give you a list of what's on these, and then I may or may not post the openings to YouTube at the beginning of the year. Anyways . . .
In 2010, I got myself a DVD of the Powerpuff Girls Movie off Amazon.com. But, 5 years earlier, it was at a Bric-a-Brac shop that I found the VHS version of the film. (This was released on Nov. 5, 2002 alongside the DVD, since they still made VHS copies of movies back in 2002.) But that had no case.
Until now.