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About the 1991 copy of "The Jungle Book" you bought today...

You said you bought a 1991 copy of "The Jungle Book" that was printed on the 344th day of December, so I deduce there's a dark ink printing on the bottom spine that follows this code: "x 344 90 xxxx" The first digit is random (I think) and the last four indicate the time your copy was pressed. Does your copy have that sort of code?

Also, I have 1991 Canadian copy of "Peter and the Wolf" duplicated by AstralTech but with the same kind of printing; it reads, "5 354 90 0538" - that means it was printed on December 20, 1990 at 05:38 AM. I'm assuming this kind of printing was from a tape manufacturer and not a duplicator. Your copy was duplicated at Technicolor, right?

--MrServoRetro (talk), April 18, 2022, 09:00 PM (EST)

My copy indeed has a dark ink printing.

The first digit on my copy, which I believe might be the digit of the spine label, reads 4. Since the day-year code part on my copy means my copy was printed on December 10, 1990. The time part of the code reads 0641, meaning my copy was printed at 06:41 AM. My copy appears to be on a Memorex cassette with “MADE IN U.S.A.” moulded on the back right of it, although I don’t think Memorex was the one that printed out this type of code information. I’m pretty sure those types of codes were done by the duplicator (Technicolor and/or Astral), not to mention a user on YouTube named Amanda Shippey owns the 2000 demo VHS release of “It’s the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown”, duplicated by Deluxe Video Services. Her copy of that one has the Technicolor code info on the bottom spine with the conventional date/24-hour time code part reading 051700-1935 (meaning her copy was printed by Technicolor on May 17, 2000 at 07:35 PM) and the Deluxe code on the guard reading 024 (meaning her copy was printed by Deluxe on 24th week of 2000 (June 12-18, 2000)).

The dark ink print code on my copy of the “The Jungle Book” video looks like this:

4 344 90 0641

The regular print code information, in grayish-white ink, on my copy reads this:

032291-A 000000-1-0 T-83

SPRING LEAD X18 53055

The conventional date code part means my copy was also printed on March 22, 1991. What the letter A stands for — I’m thinking it’s some sort of shift digit or something. I’m also thinking 000000-1-0 is the serial number, while X18 53055 is the initial number. I do know T-83 is the nominal length of the cassette, although the running length according to both the back cover of the clamshell, and the front tape label, which on my copy is the regular horizontal ink-label variation, is 78 minutes.

My copy was duplicated at Technicolor and before you ask, mine has the DTMF phone dial-up tone sounds at the beginning of the tape.

74.187.193.126 03:57, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Btw, does your Canadian copy of the “Peter and the Wolf” video tape have the “BVHV” engraved on the left or right side of the tape? Also, are you able to scan what the code information on your copy looks like? 74.187.193.126 01:17, 21 April 2022 (UTC)