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Line 1: == Events == * MGM and CBS split their home video ties, with CBS Video Enterprises going alone, and MGM forming its own home video division, MGM/UA Home Video. * '''January''': Andre Blay formed his own home video corporation, Andre Blay Corporation. Magnetic Video Corporation was renamed to 20th Century-Fox Video. * '''June''': CBS Video Enterprises merges with 20th Century-Fox Video, forming CBS/Fox Video. RCA Records joins forces with Columbia Pictures, renames the existing Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment division to RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, after the prior international joint venture it started a year earlier. * '''August''': Andre Blay Corporation was sold to Embassy Communications, becoming '''Embassy Home Entertainment'''. * '''November 26''': RCA SelectaVision announces an agreement with MCA Videodisc for 20 Universal titles, to be released on the CED format beginning next year. * '''December''': MGM/UA Home Video enters into a trial arrangement with Polygram Records for distribution of its catalog in select territories across the United States late in the month. Line 791 ⟶ 795: \|- ! Title !! Label !! Distributor !! Released !! class="unsortable" \| Note(s) \|- \| ''Abbott and Costello Cartoon Carnival #1'' \|\| Video Communications, Inc. \|\| United Entertainment \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''Beyond the Fringe'' \|\| Wizard Video \|\| Family Home Entertainment \|\| July 8, 1982 \|\| Line 849 ⟶ 855: \|- \| ''Master Mind'' \|\| Unicorn Video \|\| Unicorn Video \|\| July 29, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''Music Box'' \|\| Vanguard Video \|\| United Entertainment \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''The Music of Melissa Manchester'' \|\| Warner Home Video \|\| Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| Line 887 ⟶ 895: \| ''Shoot the Moon'' \|\| MGM/UA Home Video \|\| MGM/UA Home Video \|\| July 1, 1982 \|\| * For rental only. \|- \| ''Sisters of Death'' \|\| Video Communications, Inc. \|\| United Entertainment \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''Starvengers'' \|\| Family Home Entertainment \|\| Family Home Entertainment \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''A Stranger Is Watching'' \|\| MGM/UA Home Video \|\| MGM/UA Home Video \|\| July 1, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''Superchick'' \|\| Video Communications, Inc. \|\| United Entertainment \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\| \|- \| ''They All Laughed'' \|\| Vestron Video \|\| Vestron Video \|\| July 22, 1982 \|\|