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International Video Entertainment was formed, with FHE and U.S.A. Home Video becoming part of it. Then, in February 1987, a year after Carolco Pictures’ acquisition of IVE from Noel C. Bloom Sr., and upon U.S.A. Home Video being folded into IVE, IVE secured an agreement with MCA Inc. (formerly known as the Music Corporation of America) under which MCA Distributing Corporation would distribute IVE and FHE releases in the U.S., with MCA Home Video Canada handling distribution in Canada. Both MCA Distributing and MCA Home Video Canada also distributed releases from the MCA Home Video label (which later traded as MCA/Universal Home Video beginning in 1990). Obviously, around 1988, LIVE Entertainment was formed, with IVE and FHE becoming part of it, though by 1990, IVE itself became LIVE Home Video. That same year, LIVE also formed a budget label called Avid Home Entertainment (
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I know this is an old thread, but here is some history of Family Home
Entertainment regarding their distribution. Family Home Entertainment was originally self-distributed from its establishment in 1980, all the way up to 1983. By 1983, FHE formed a non-family friendly label called U.S.A. Home Video,
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While I liked the titles FHE released, I was very critical of their frequent use of EP mode VHS tapes for the more common releases. I could be mistaken, but I think that most of all those TMNT tapes they distributed were EP. I believe SP mode tapes were available, but required special ordering.
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Entertainment was the name of the KIDS AND FAMILY SUBSIDIARY of Artisan, not just one of the parent company's former names. It's just that FHE became a LABEL of the parent company after the latter was incorporated as International Video Entertainment in 1986. So can someone
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I am an owner of large collection of FHE tapes, TMNT in particular. With the exception of my oldest versions of Heroes in a Half Shell and the Hot
Rodding Teenagers, the other tapes I own are all in EP and don't play anymore, sans one tape about Leonardo being chased by space aliens. That tape is
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Goodtimes and Gold Key. But no, MGM nor Universal had never had anything to do with FHE.
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