Cross-duplicating tapes

This page is dedicated to those tapes with known copies having been duplicated at facilities other than those normally serving their respective releasing companies/labels.

DEJ Productions (normally worked with Technicolor)

• Frankie and Hazel (Network Duplication Services)
• Lush (Vision Wise)

Fotomat Video (normally worked with Bell & Howell)

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)
• Blow-Up (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)
• Breaking Away (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Carnal Knowledge (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Tarzan the Ape Man (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)
• The Wizard of Oz (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)

GoodTimes Home Video (normally worked with GTK)

• Six Hours of Spurs and Saddles (TBD)

Lions Gate Home Entertainment/Anchor Bay Entertainment (normally worked with different duplicators)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Fotomat Video, Time-Life Video, Simon Marketing or the Columbia House Video Club are not listed.

Under the Media Home Entertainment label (normally self-duplicated)

• A Charlie Brown Christmas/You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown (Creative Video Services)
• The Cold Room (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Felix the Cat in Outer Space (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Killer's Moon (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Night of the Juggler (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Tears for Fears: In My Mind's Eye (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)

Under the Artisan Entertainment label (normally worked with Rank and Cinram)

• Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance! (MediaCopy)
• The Substitute (sell-through version) (MediaCopy)
• Total Recall (post-1999 releases) (Premiere Video)

Under the International Video Entertainment label (normally self-duplicated or worked with Rank)

• PGA Tour Golf: Tips from the Tour (Rank Video Services America)
• Rambo III (Technicolor Videocassette)

Under the Family Home Entertainment label (normally worked with Rank)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: April Foolish (Technicolor Videocassette and TBD)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Great Boldini (Technicolor Videocassette and TBD)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Incredible Shrinking Turtles (Premiere Video)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers (Technicolor Videocassette and TBD)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sky Turtles (Technicolor Videocassette and TBD)

Under the Carolco Home Video label (normally worked with Rank)

• Total Recall (Technicolor Videocassette)

MGM Home Entertainment (normally worked with different duplicators)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Fotomat Video, Time-Life Video or the Columbia House Video Club are not listed.

Under the Hemdale Home Video label (normally worked with WCVD)

• The Princess and the Goblin (Central Video)
• The Terminator (part of The Terminator Collection) (Rank Video Services America)

Under the MGM/UA Home Video label (normally worked with VCA and S/T)

• Victor/Victoria (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)

Under the MGM Home Entertainment label (normally worked with MediaCopy)

• Barbershop (Technicolor Video Services, on some early copies)

Paramount Home Entertainment (normally worked with Deluxe)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Fotomat Video, Time-Life Video or the Columbia House Video Club are not listed.

Under the Paramount Home Video label

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Forrest Gump (Technicolor Video Services)
• The Godfather (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• The Godfather Part II (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Grease 2 (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Technicolor Videocassette)
• In Harm's Way (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Rough Cut (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Saturday Night Fever (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Shane (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Sunset Boulevard (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• The Little Prince (TBD)
• Top Gun (TBD)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Wayne's World (Premiere Video)

Royal Sound Video Productions (normally self-duplicated)

• Cartoon Greats series (Rank Video Services America)

Simon Marketing (normally worked with Technicolor)

• The Berenstain Bears (1985 TV series) tapes (EP/SLP mode copies w/ linear audio only) (West Coast Video Duplicating)
• The Star Wars Trilogy Animated Collection tapes (EP/SLP mode copies w/ linear audio only) (West Coast Video Duplicating)
• The Velveteen Rabbit (SP mode copies) (West Coast Video Duplicating)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (normally worked with CPVS and Deluxe)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Fotomat Video, Time-Life Video or the Columbia House Video Club and/or released under the SVS/Triumph Home Video (formerly known as SVS) label are not listed.

Under the Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment label (normally worked with CPVS)

• Alvarez Kelly (1982 release) (unknown duplicator)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• California Suite (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Happy Birthday to Me (The Vidtronics Company)
• The Shout (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• A Special Day (The Vidtronics Company)
• Stir Crazy (The Vidtronics Company)

Under the RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video label (normally worked with Bell & Howell)

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1985 release) (Technicolor Videocassette)

Under the Columbia TriStar Home Video label (normally worked with Rank)

• The Fisher King (Allied Film & Video)

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (normally worked with Rank)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Fotomat Video or the Columbia House Video Club are not listed.

Under the MCA Videocassette Inc. label

• 1941 (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Animal Crackers (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)
• The Blues Brothers (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Coal Miner's Daughter (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Dracula (1931 version) (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Frankenstein (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• It Came from Outer Space (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• The Jerk (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• My Little Chickadee (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Psycho (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (Magnetic Video Corporation)
• Silent Running (S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp.)
• State of the Union (Magnetic Video Corporation)

Under the MCA/Universal Home Video label

• Apollo 13 (Technicolor Video Services)
• Back to the Future (1990 release) (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Back to the Future (1994 release) (West Coast Video Duplicating)
• Back to the Future Part II (Technicolor Videocassette)
• Back to the Future Part III (Technicolor Videocassette)
• The Flintstones (1994 version) (Technicolor Video Services)

Under the MCA Home Video label

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Technicolor Videocassette)

Under the Universal Studios Home Video label

• The Best Man (Allied Digital Technologies)
• End of Days (Allied Digital Technologies)
• For the Love of the Game (Allied Digital Technologies)
• The Hurricane (Allied Digital Technologies)
• Man in the Moon (Allied Digital Technologies)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (Allied Digital Technologies)

VCI Home Video (normally self-duplicated)

• Death Machines (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Getting Wasted (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• The Toolbox Murders (The Vidtronics Company)

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment/Buena Vista Home Entertainment/20th Century Studios Home Entertainment (normally worked with different duplicators)

FUN FACT: Ironically, VCA/Technicolor acquired CBS/Fox's duplication arm in Q3 1987.

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Time-Life Video, Simon Marketing or the Columbia House Video Club and/or released under the Walt Disney Attractions, Disney Educational Productions or ABC Video labels are not listed.

Under the Touchstone Home Video label (normally worked with Technicolor)

• Armageddon (Deluxe Video Services)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Rank Video Services America)

Under the Walt Disney Home Video label (normally worked with CBS/Fox and VCA)

• The Importance of Being Donald (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Mickey Knows Best (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)

Under the FoxVideo label (normally worked with Rank)

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Technicolor Video Services)
• Independence Day (Technicolor Video Services and Premiere Video)
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Technicolor Video Services)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (Technicolor Video Services)
• Speed (Technicolor Video Services, Allied Film & Video, and Premiere Video)

Under the 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment label (normally worked with Deluxe and Cinram)

• Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (Technicolor Video Services)
• X-Men (Technicolor Video Services)

Under the CBS/Fox Video label (normally self-duplicated)

• Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (VCA/Technicolor)

Warner Home Video (normally worked with different duplicators)

NOTICE: Titles sold through Avon Products, Time-Life Video, Simon Marketing or the Columbia House Video Club are not listed.

Under the New Line Home Video label (normally worked with Technicolor and MediaCopy)

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Central Video)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Central Video)
• Blade (Central Video)
• The Wedding Singer (Premiere Video)

Under the Embassy Home Entertainment label (normally worked with Premiere Video)

• Victory at Sea (Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services)

Under the Warner Home Video label (normally worked with Technicolor and WEA)

• The Avengers (Central Video)
• Batman (Rank Video Services America, West Coast Video Duplicating, and Premiere Video)
• Batman Returns (West Coast Video Duplicating)
• City of Angels (Central Video)
• The Shawshank Redemption (Allied Digital Technologies)
• Wrongfully Accused (Central Video)

Under the Thorn EMI Video label (normally worked with Bell & Howell)

• The Bushido Blade (VCA-Teletronics)

Under the A*Vision Entertainment label (normally worked with WEA)

• The Magic School Bus For Lunch (Allied Film & Video Services)
• The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space (Allied Film & Video Services)

York Entertainment (normally worked with TBD)

• Forgotten City (Celebrity Duplicating Services)
• Karate Wars (Scenewise Inc.)