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The Adventures of Robin Hood
4540-80
The Boys From Brazil
9002-80
Brubaker
1098-80
Capricorn One
9007-80
Casablanca
4514-80
Charly
8020-80
Coming Home
4516-80
Death Hunt
1125-80
Dr. No
4525-80
Fiddler on the Roof
4524-80
For Your Eyes Only
4568-80
The French Lieutenant's Woman
4586-80
From Russia With Love
4566-80
Goldfinger
4595-80
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
4545-80
The Great Muppet Caper
9035-80
The Great Train Robbery
4531-80
History of the World Part I
1114-80
Last Tango in Paris
4507-80
M*A*S*H
1038-80
On Golden Pond
9037-80
The Pink Panther
4509-80
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
4564-80
Quest For Fire
1148-80
Raging Bull
4523-80
Rocky
4546-80
Rocky II
4565-80
Semi-Tough
4517-80
Some Like It Hot
4577-80
Star Wars
1130-80
Straw Dogs
8005-80
Young Frankenstein
1103-80
The 20th Century-Fox Video Disc Selector is a 1982 full-color 20 page catalog presenting the titles available
from 20th Century-Fox Video. Included are the Magnetic Video label titles that began arriving on LD in late 1981.
The 20th Century-Fox Video label was the second incarnation for the Fox name on LaserVision, following MVC (Magnetic Video
Corporation). The label debuted with Star Wars and On Golden Pond in late 1982.
There are 80 titles presented, making it rival the original MCA DiscoVision Silver Book that launched the format in late 1978.
Only 17 of the titles presented are 20th Century-Fox properties, the remaining 63 selections are all licensed programs.
Of the 80 presented in this publication, 17 titles never see the light of a laser during this time.
The deal with United Artists had only recently been sealed between Fox and UA for home video at the time
of this catalog's publication. MGM/UA was just happening at the time too. The combination of events meant the
five year contract providing Fox with access to certain UA titles would expire and not be renewed. This put pressure
on Fox's LD label to get as many of the short-term UA licensed movies out on disc. This answers the question of why
did such second and even third rate UA movies end up on LaserVision, when films like The Towering Inferno
and Planet of the Apes were not yet released in North America on the format. The situation didn't
present issue on videocassette, nor even CED videodisc for Fox. Production on tape was of no issue. Fox was
partnered with CBS on a CED pressing plant in Carrollton Georgia, making production of this format disc a non-issue.
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