European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Movies on video billboard s lop 10 videocassette rentals 1 lethal weapon 3 Warner Home video 2 Patriot games Paramount Home video 3 sister act Touchstone Home video 4 House Slater Mca Universal Home video 5 Allen Fox video a 6 far and away Mca Universal Home video 7 Universal Soldier live Home video 8 Basic instinct live Home video 9 my Cousin Vinny Fox video 10 the cutting Edge Mem a Home video music on video billboard s top 10 music videocassette sales 1 a year and a half in the Lite of Metallica Metallica 2 Achung baby u2 3 a year and a half vol. 1 Metallica 4 this is Garth Brooks Garth Brooks 5 this is Michael Bolton Michae Bolton 6 use your illusion parts i amp ii guns no roses 7 live from radio City music Hall Iliza Minnelli 8 a Treme close up kiss 9 unplugged Eric clapton10 building empires Queen Ryche television the top 15 stateside to shows Tor dec 29-Jan. 3, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 1 60 minutes lbs 2 5 murder she wrote lbs 3 x movie the Amy Fisher Story abc4 x movie Amy Fisher my Story i 4 6 monday night football Detroit at san Francisco 6 x movie or Quinn Medicine woman lbs 6 x sugar bowl Alabama is. Miami 8 7 Home improvement 9 2 Roseann a 10 9 or. Quinn Medicine woman lbs 11 x movie casualties of love lbs 11 x movie to heart 13 4 coach Quot 13 43 dateline 15 17 unsolved mysteries Sharon tale plays Jennifer North going South in Valley of the dolls a much requested video Spotti Century Fox Fox hitting with old films by Peter Nichols tie new York times rare tapes command rare prices but new releases of old films will Cut into the profits. Videocassettes of Many old movies sell for $ 15, which makes them a popular gift. But for a few tapes of older films the Price can be Steep. In new York City for example a used copy of Disney a sleeping Beauty May bring about $130. For a new copy make that $300. Prices quoted in some stores for the Little Mermaid which sold by the millions for less than $25 in 1990 and 1991. Run from $100 to $150, new or used. The problem is that Disney withdrew the film from distribution in 1991 and the Supply has since dried up As it has for other Disney titles similarly withdrawn like lady and the tramp and Cinderella both about $150 used. A people feel they should still be Able to get Little Mermaid and so do their kids especially at Holiday time Quot said Norman Scherer a leading rare tape dealer and the owner of the video Oyster store in studios have often withheld old titles. But this year for instance Fox plans to release 13 of its prominent old movies of which some have been off the Market for years and others have never been on tape. The series begins in february with Frank Lloyd a cavalcade 1933john Fords How Green was my Valley 1941 and Elia Kazan a gentleman s agreement. The rest of the series to be released one film a month include Otto Preminger a Laura 1944stanley Donn a a two for the Road 1967robert Stevenson a Jane Eyre 1944nunnally Johnson a three faces of eve 1957joseph l. Mankiewicz a letter to three wives 1949henry Kings love is a Many spin bored thing 1955 and Rouben Mamoulian a Mark of Zorro 1940. The Price is $19.98 each. A Fox promotional release describes the series As the a most requested Uncle Asch but Scherer said that while the movies were indeed among those most requested by his customers Many had been released years ago by magnetic video now defunct. The company once had rights to Many Fox films. Some of these tapes can still be found at video Oyster and other stores to lat carry rare titles Scherer said that the Fox announcement wipes out rare tape pricing for the films in the series a take 7v6 for the Road Quot he said. A that one hurts because in be sold five of those for $300 at video Oyster he said gentleman s agreement and love is a Many spin bored thing also brought $300. A a in a be Happy to get $100 now Quot he said adding that he would inform customers of the Fox series that still leaves plenty of rare old tapes Scherer said that video Oyster has 7,000 titles among the most requested Are Anastasia and Valley of the dolls which have sold for $750 and $300, respect Lively he said. Other old magnetic titles include three corns m the Fountain $250panic in Nee. Die Park $200 and they shoot horses Don t they $150. Page 18 sunday january 10. 1993 t
