Unboxing Some Beta Videotapes - July 6, 2013!!

Here is a unique unboxing video - this time I open up a box of 2 Beta tapes that came in the mail! Be sure to watch in HD!

[MusicradioNetwork]

If you've noticed the opening to every Magnetic VHS releases, it has the logo with the elevator music playing and the voiceover mentions every studio and something like that. That opening logo lasted from 1977 until 1981. By 1980, they changed the logo to MVC and added "A 20th Century Fox Company" attached to its name, it was on the packaging and the label and it still uses the 1977-81 logo. Magnetic Video became 20th Century-Fox Video a year later in 1982.

[robatsea]

I've always loved that little Magnetic Video logo that appears at the beginning of their tapes!

[MusicradioNetwork]

I have this movie on DVD. As for the Magnetic Video name, it was one of the first home video distributors to release films from 20th Century-Fox, UA, ITC, Avco/Embassy, ABC Video Enterprises, Viacom and the Estate of Charles Chaplin. It was first released in a Betamax format in 1977, it was also released on VHS a year later.

[MusicradioNetwork]

I hope maybe “Connor’s Movie Corner” would like to get a hold of these two Magnetic VHS tapes soon. As you know, these two films from Magnetic were also on VHS as well.

[MusicradioNetwork]

And speaking of Magnetic Video, a user named “TylerTristar2IsBack” has a whole stack of Magnetic VHS tapes in his collection. He collected every single Magnetic Video releases from 1977 through 1981. You should check this one out.


The most interesting thing about the Magnetic releases is the back which is at 1:34 where it contains the first of over 50 titles were released that year. And then in 1978, they added more titles in the mix including a pair of Elvis movies along with a few Terrytoons were also released as well as a few sports titles, and a number of Charlie Chaplin films from the silent era, except “The Great Dictator” which was also a sound movie. By 1979, they kept adding more titles from other studios like Avco Embassy, ABC Video Enterprises, ITC, and others until 1980 when the dropped the lists of titles and replaced it with the film’s description and still images from the movie, and changed its logo to an MVC logo, and the byline was added as “A 20th Century Fox Company” and then also added many of the titles from United Artists right up until 1981. The font you see on the label has the film’s title which was printed in Times New Roman.

[ryanasaurus]

I too have THE FRENCH CONNECTION with a date of 1977, but on VHS. I don't have THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL yet, though.