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==UA films on video== UA originally leased the home video rights to its films to [[Magnetic Video]], the first home video company. Fox purchased Magnetic in 1981 and renamed it [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century-Fox Video]] that year. In 1982, 20th Century-Fox Video merged with [[CBS Home Entertainment|CBS Video Enterprises]] (which earlier split from [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM/CBS Home Video]] after MGM merged with UA) giving birth to [[CBS/Fox Video]]. Although MGM owned UA around this time, UA's licensing deal with CBS/Fox (which also included sublabels Key Video and Playhouse Video) was still in effect. However, the newly renamed [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM/UA Home Video]] started releasing some UA product, including UA films originally released in the mid-80s. Prior to MGM's purchase, UA licensed foreign video rights to Warner Bros. through [[Warner Home Video]], in a deal that was set to expire in 1991.<ref>{{cite news| last=Fabrikant| first=Geraldine| title=For MGM/UA, Bidders Are Scarce| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/31/business/for-mgm-ua-bidders-are-scarce.html?src=pm| newspaper=The New York Times| date=May 31, 1988| access-date=February 20, 2017| archive-date=October 2, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002171522/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/31/business/for-mgm-ua-bidders-are-scarce.html?src=pm| url-status=live}}</ref> In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after his short-lived ownership of MGM/UA, and as a result CBS/Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM/UA Home Video, which licensed them from Turner. When the deal with CBS/Fox (inherited from Magnetic Video) expired in 1989, the UA released films were released through MGM/UA Home Video. Before the Magnetic Video and Warner Home Video deals in 1980, United Artists had exclusive rental contracts with a small video label called [[VidAmerica]] in the US, and another small label called Intervision Video in the UK.<ref name=ncn>{{cite news |last=Bins |first=Chuck |date=December 23, 1980 |title=VCR revolution to provide wide selection for TV viewers |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-dec-23-1980-4683796/ |newspaper=[[New Castle News]] |page=8}}{{open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-Panorama-TV-IDX/IDX/Panorama-TV-1980-02-OCR-Page-0101.pdf#search=%22allied%22 |title=This Month |magazine=Panorama |date=October 8, 2013 |format=pdf |access-date=October 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| title=Europe Moves Forward in Copyright Levy Push| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| date=October 4, 1980| page=87| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87| access-date=October 1, 2017| language=en| issn=0006-2510| first=George| last=Kopp| archive-date=March 7, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307172241/https://books.google.com/books?id=DCUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87| url-status=live}}</ref> for the home video release of 20 titles from the UA library (e.g. ''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]'', ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', and ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]'', along with a few pre-1950 WB titles).
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