Magnetic Video

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Magnetic Video Corporation was a home video/home audio duplication service that operated between 1968 and 1982.

History

Magnetic Video Corporation was established by the co-founder

These 50 titles were:[1]

• Hello, Dolly! (1969)

• Fantastic Voyage (1966)

• Von Ryan's Express (1965)

• The King And I (1956)

• Patton (1970)

• The Hustler (1961)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

• Cleopatra (1963)

• The French Connection (1971)

• Hombre (1967)

• The Only Game in Town (1970)

• Can-Can (1960)

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

• The Desert Fox (1951)

• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

• The Bible (1966)

• The Boston Strangler (1968)

• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

• The Detective (1968)

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

• The Longest Day (1962)

• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

• The Robe (1953)

• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

• Dr. Dolittle (1967)

• The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

• The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)

• Vanishing Point (1971)

• The Sand Pebbles (1966)

• State Fair (1962)

• Bus Stop (1956)

• Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

• From the Terrace (1960)

• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

• The Song of Bernadette (1943)

• How to Steal a Million (1966)

• How Green Was My Valley (1941)

• M*A*S*H (1970)

• Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

• Anastasia (1956)

• Boy on a Dolphin (1957)

• The Hot Rock (1972)

• The Seven Year Itch (1955)

• Valley of the Dolls (1967)

• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

• The Paper Chase (1973)

• Carmen Jones (1954)

• The Razor's Edge (1946)

• A Farewell to Arms (1957)

This and similar video stores were a success, and Magnetic Video took off, adding titles from the following companies in the next four years, in addition to continuing to release original titles from Fox:

• 1978:
  Charles Chaplin estate, and AVCO Embassy Pictures
• 1979: Brut Productions, Bill Burrud Productions, and Pathé newsreels
• 1980: ABC Pictures, ITC (Magnetic's first release from ITC was The Muppet Movie), and American Film Theatre
• 1981: United Artists (UA; including pre-1950 Warner Bros. films which were owned by UA at that time), in addition to establishing short-lived sports and laserdisc divisions.

The Magnetic Video project was such a success that it soon came over to the United Kingdom as "Magnetic Video UK" in 1978. Not long after, Magnetic Video branched into Australia, trading under "Magnetic Video Australia".^{[citation needed]}

In March 1979, Fox purchased Magnetic Video, which was a small OTC traded public company (Blay was a major shareholder and Chairman). In January 1982, shortly after Blay's departure from the company, Fox reorganized Magnetic Video into