This was a company that primarily sold their stuff through mail-order starting in 1990, and in the pre-internet days that meant requesting an order form, filling it out and sending it back in, THEN getting your tapes!
They sold a number of movies in field-sequential 3-D, which means one field showed the left image and the other showed the right, while you looked through glasses synced to the VCR that rapidly flashed to block out the view each eye wasn't supposed to see. It wasn't perfect but it was miles ahead of the awful red-and-blue glasses 3-D that had been tried a few times on home video. This format originally was used on the Japanese VHD Videodisc format, and the original Sega Master System had a few games that used this format also. Unfortunately this system does not work on any current TVs because they no longer display images as separate fields the way old CRTs did. I have tried watching these on my LCD and basically there is still some image separation when things are moving, but anything that is standing still is going to have the left and right images combined. There probably isn't any way to see this clip in 3-D on a computer- interestingly it looks like one of the fields has been dropped entirely by YouTube after being uploaded. At least that makes it easier to see in 2-D.
They were a rather low-budget operation and their tapes were not always of the highest quality, in fact I had to send back a few tapes because they had no Hi-Fi audio tracks on them! They have simple laser-printed labels on the edge of the tape with just the title printed on them, and the tape covers were cut-and-paste jobs. They did offer Super VHS but I didn't have a VCR that could play those back then. My main complaint was that they re-titled a lot of their movies, replacing the original title cards with character-generated ones. One tape I got was called "The Zoo", which was really from a print of "The Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth" which was a reissue of a movie originally called "The Bubble". Long story short was that the guy who ran this company thought "The Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth" wasn't an accurate title for the movie, so he changed it. I avoided buying other titles that had this done to them. This particular clip was taken from "The Stewardesses", which prior to "Avatar" was the highest-grossing 3-D movie released.
Other notable titles I bought from them included Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Comin' At Ya, and Sexcalibur (an 80s hardcore porn movie with Lee Carroll!) Their 2nd wave of titles did not include this intro, and some didn't even have a printed tape cover.
Doing some research I see this company may still be in business- I found a website for them but it hasn't been updated in years. I hope the movies they put out will be released on the 3-D Blu-Ray system, which is much higher quality though I don't compatible equipment for it.
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