VCA-Teletronics
History[edit]
List of Customers[edit]
All had their tapes duplicated here following the VCA/Technicolor split in 1987.
- ABC Video Enterprises
- Children's Television Workshop (1987, 1990) (some Shalom Sesame tapes)
- Crown Video (1987)
- Direct Cinema Limited (1990) (two known tapes)
- 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)
- Home Sweet Home Educational Media Co. (1987-1992)
- L.A. Hero (1990-1993)
- MGM/UA Home Video (1988) (some screeners)
- New Media, Inc. (Inside Country Music video magazine issues)
- North Sea Navigator Co. (1987)
- Regal Video (1988) (one known copy of Castle of the Walking Dead)
- 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[edit]
- 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:
MOONSTRUCK SCREENING
04/26/88 6962-1
12 145 D
- 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[edit]
- Dallas, Texas
- Elk Grove Village, Illinois
- Houston, Texas
- Leonia, New Jersey