VCA-Teletronics

History

TBD

List of Customers

All had their tapes duplicated here following the VCA/Technicolor split in 1987.

• ABC Video Enterprises
• Caputo Publishing (1992) (one known copy of Speed Racer: Challenge of the Masked Racer)
• CBS/Fox Video (1989) (one known copy of The Day the Earth Stood Still)
• Children's Television Workshop (1987, 1990) (some Shalom Sesame tapes)
• Crown Video (1987)
• Direct Cinema Limited (1990-1992)
• Disney Educational Productions (1987-1993)
• East Texas Distributors (except for Paramount releases) (19??-1993)
• Eye Films and Video (1991)
• Gateway Films/Vision Video (1989-1993)
• HBO Video (1987)
• Home Sweet Home Educational Media Co. (1987-1992)
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• L.A. Hero (1990-1993)
• Live Entertainment (1992) (Spanish subtitled copy of Shooting Elizabeth)
• MGM/UA Home Video (1987-1988) (some screeners)
• New Media, Inc. (Inside Country Music video magazine issues)
• North Sea Navigator Co. (1987)
• Public Media Video (1991-1992)
• Regal Video (1988) (one known copy of Castle of the Walking Dead)
• Shadow Play Video (1989-1992)
• Simitar Entertainment (1987-1989)
• Spinnaker Video (1988) (one known copy of VCR Baseball)
• Sponsor Plus
• The Sterling Group (1990)
• Time Life Video (1990)
• Vestron Video
• VidAmerica, Inc. (1987-1992)
• VideoTours (1990) (one known copy of San Diego Zoo)
• Warner Home Video
• WCSC Television (1989)

How to Tell

• Tapes from this duplicator had a white sticker on the tape guard which had a print date, and the information on it was formatted like this for example:

Example 1 (from the Screening Copy ofMoonstruck):

MOONSTRUCK SCREENING

04/26/88 6962-1

12 145 D

Example 2 (from The Day the Earth Stood Still):

TECHNI"THE EARTH STOOD STILL"

035848 01A005

9/29/89 10- 26

• Some tapes from VidAmerica had a blue sticker on the bottom spine, which had information on it like this for example:

STANLEY

P.O. 1521

• Later tapes usually had dark printings on the spine like the following examples:

Example 1 (from Giant Robo):

T60 EG25P05311G 02 : 21

Example 2 (from an issue of Inside Country Music):

T105 EG23A09002D 08 : 44 #53972

Example 3 (from Unseen Journey):

T70 EG64D07115D 12 : 13 #58871

• One known tape also had a white stamping on the left side of the tape, like the example in the picture below next to a picture of the example of the dark printings.
• Some tapes with the dark printings, namely those duplicated in Dallas, did not have the five digit number that normally followed the time stamp.
• Tapes duplicated here did not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
• One known tape of Outlanders had a silent white screen test pattern at the end.

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  An example of what the blue sticker on tapes by this duplicator looked like.
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  An example of what the dark printings on tapes by this duplicator looked like.
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  An example of what the white stamping on one known tape by this duplicator looked like.

Locations

• Dallas, Texas
• Elk Grove Village, Illinois
• Houston, Texas
• Leonia, New Jersey