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Is there a print date anywhere on the tape? And what does the printing itself look like?

I find it funny how some tapes would have a print date on the vertical-blanking interval (if that's really what that was in the picture - 09-18-95?).

Also, what does the copyright date on the packaging and/or tape label say and what company distributed this tape?

69.85.235.48 16:06, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

The printings on the tape looks a little something like this:

1002570 0033 00:50 264 95

0116351-00002-000 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE/MR. BILL

And the tape is from 1993, distributed by Starmaker. --Videolover1999 (talk) 02:55, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe it's got an Anchor Bay Entertainment-era label on the front of the tape itself -- the Anchor Bay-era tape labels, whether it be inked or a sticker, have no distributor logo on the label. That tape was obviously printed sometime after Anchor Bay Entertainment switched their usual duplicator from Technicolor to Allied Digital; I only own two Anchor Bay-era tapes and one pre-Anchor Bay tape that were duplicated at the latter (the two Anchor Bay-era tapes are the 1997 releases of 50 Classic Cartoons Vol. 1 and 2, both with the same kind of printing, and the one pre-Anchor Bay tape is the 1993 VHS of "Christmas Classics" from Burbank Video, with no printing). The remainder of the pre-Anchor Bay tapes I own were duplicated at Video Cassette Duplicating and Technicolor; the former acquired by the latter in fall 1992. 69.85.235.48 12:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

It does have an Anchor Bay style label. --Videolover1999 (talk) 03:11, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Is yours an inked label or sticker label? 69.85.235.48 12:41, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Ink label. --Videolover1999 (talk) 05:18, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Does it have the notation, "FOR CLEARER PICTURE, ADJUST TRACKING ON YOUR VCR." on the bottom of the label? My copy of 50 Classic All-Star Cartoons Vol. 1 doesn't have that (in which my copy was printed on the 237th day of 1999 and it has the inked label). 69.85.235.48 18:57, 6 February 2023 (UTC)