Celebrity Duplicating Services, Inc.

This company was an affiliate of Celebrity Home Entertainment.

History

TBD

Amazing Fantasy Entertainment
Aurora Home Entertainment (1999)
California Video Distributors (198?)
Celebrity Home Entertainment (1987-2001)
- Just for Kids Home Video (1987-2001)
- Unicon Communications (1989-1992)
The Criterion Collection (later videotape printings)
Frame Work Entertainment Group, LLC (2002)
Films of the Nations (one known copy of Visitors from Space)
Imperial Entertainment Group
Maverick Entertainment (2000)
Meta Video (19??) (All Star Cartoons Video line)
MVP Home Entertainment (1997-2000)
Pacific Arts Video (1991) (one known copy of State of the Art of Computer Animation)
Republic Pictures Home Video (1990) (one known copy of a screening cassette of In the Cold of Night)
Rhino Home Video
RTD (1990) (Operation Blue Line Starring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Simitar Entertainment (1989-1996)
Ventura Distribution Inc. (2000) (one known copy of Killing the Badge)
Vidmark Entertainment (1989)
York Entertainment (2000)

Tapes from this duplicator had a yellow or orange sticker with a print date in MM-DD-YY (with the first digit of the year being incorrect on some tapes) and a four or five-digit number, possibly the batch or SKU code, like this for example:

12-11-16

3238

This is an example of what the sticker on tapes by this duplicator looked like. The tape used for this example was printed on December 11, 1996.

There is no form of printing anywhere on the cassette aside from the sticker mentioned above.
Some tapes may have the static roll of death at the end.
Tapes by this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
Some Just for Kids and Unicon Communications tapes duplicated here said "JFK" on the tape guard and have a multicolored cassette design, consisting of a red cassette shell, a blue tape guard, a magenta supply reel and a yellow take-up reel.

This duplicator experienced a controversy in late 1989 when it was discovered that some copies of the VHS Filmation's Ghostbusters: Spirits, Spooks, and Spectres from Just for Kids featured a low-quality sequence of footage from an adult film titled Squeal of Fortune following the main program. In response, Celebrity announced a recall of all offending copies of the tape and gave those who purchased the tape a free copy of the tape without the offending content in exchange. It is likely that the incident happened due to Celebrity using unsold tape stock without fully erasing the previously duplicated content.