Agincourt Productions

From Home Video

List of Customers[edit]

  • 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [Canadian] (1982-1996)
    • Key Video [Canadian]
    • Magnetic Video [Canadian] (1981)
    • Playhouse Video [Canadian]
  • Barney Home Video [Canadian] (1990s)
  • Carolco Home Video [Canadian] (1990) (some copies of Total Recall)
  • CBC Home Video (1995)
  • Cineplex Odeon Home Video [Canadian] (1986-199?)
  • Goldstar Video [Canadian] (1992) (Random House Home Video tapes)
    • Pan-Canadian Video Presentations [Canadian] (1981-1985)
  • MCA Home Video Canada (some 1980s tapes)
  • MGM/UA Home Video (Canadian, early to late 1990s)
  • Nelson Entertainment [Canadian]
  • Orion Home Video [Canadian] (some copies of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
  • Paramount Home Video [Canadian] (1995) (some copies of The Brady Bunch Movie)
  • United Home Video [Canadian] (1980's)
  • Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company [Canadian] (1981-1985)
    • Buena Vista Home Video [Canadian] (1983-1985)
    • Touchstone Home Video [Canadian] (1984-1985)
    • Walt Disney Home Video [Canadian] (1981-1985)
  • Warner Home Video [Canadian] (1984-1996)
    • WarnerVision Entertainment [Canadian]
    • HBO Home Entertainment [Canadian] (1990s)

How to Tell[edit]

  • Most tapes duplicated by Agincourt Productions may have an abbreviation of the duplicator and/or the distributor engraved on the right side of the tape.
    • Tapes duplicated after 1990 use the AP logo in gold. A few tapes may have the AP logo in black inside a golden circle.
    • On tapes distributed by CBS/Fox Video and its subsidiaries, there may also be a month-year code engraved next to it (e.g. MAG2 11 84 = November 1984).
  • Tapes duplicated by Agincourt Productions prior to the 1990's may have a coloured sticker, usually white, on the bottom spine. These stickers always have the distributor's name on top and random numbers on the bottom.
  • In the 1990s, tapes distributed by this company will usually have printings above the record tab. Sometimes the font used will resemble the printings used by VTR Video, another Canadian duplicator. This is not always the case.
    • Some Barney tapes duplicated by this company had black printings next to the recording tab spot (e.g. B310-5).
  • Tapes duplicated by this company rarely ever have static at the end. Rather, there is usually black screen all the way up until the tape rewinds. This is the case even if there is over 10 or 20 minutes of leftover film at the end.
    • Only one known tape duplicated by this company had something at the end (Jenny Craig: Let’s Get Started). There was a 3 second silent white screen test pattern at the end, with black screen following for the rest of the tape.

Known abbreviation letter codes[edit]

  • A.P. - unknown
  • MAG2 - tapes released by CBS/Fox Video and its subsidiaries
  • MCA/A.P. - tapes released by MCA Home Video Canada and Cineplex Odeon Home Video
  • WHV/A.P. - tapes released by Warner Home Video

Locations[edit]

  • Toronto, Ontario

Gallery[edit]