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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 the 1997 "50 Classic 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)