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Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. [1]

94 relations: A Star Is Burns, Adam Scott (actor), Barbra Streisand, Baron Vaughn, Behind the Camera: The Cinematographer's Art, Billy Gray (actor), CBS, Chris Evans (actor), Clare Kramer, Classic Images, Defamation, DirecTV, Doug Benson, DownBeat, Dusty and Sweets McGee, DVD, E!, Entertainment Tonight, Fanzine, Father Knows Best, Film criticism, Freakazoid!, Genius Products, George Lucas, Glenn Miller, Godzilla, Gorgo (film), Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Guinness World Records, History of film, Hot Ticket, Independent Spirit Awards, IndieWire, Isn't It Romantic? (1948 film), Jews, Jimmy Pardo, John Davidson (entertainer), Joyce Kulhawik, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, Laserblast, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Lisa Simpson, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Mad (magazine), Maiden and married names, Marge Simpson, Mecha-Streisand, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mike Nelson (character), ..., Mystery Science Theater 3000, National Film Board of Canada, National Student Film Institute, New American Library, New York City, New York University, Our Gang, Password Plus and Super Password, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Scheer, Pearl Forrester, Peter Segal, Podcast, Pyramid (game show), Reelz, Robert Smith (musician), Roger Ebert, Samm Levine, Settlement (litigation), Short film, Sidney Poitier, Sonar Entertainment, South Park, Star Wars, Starz, Teaneck High School, Teaneck, New Jersey, The New School for Social Research, The Record (Bergen County), The Simpsons, The Three Stooges, The Time Machine (1960 film), The Walt Disney Company, Todd Newton, Transylvania 6-5000 (1985 film), TV Guide, Ultraman, University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Variety (magazine), VHS, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Treasures, Warner Archive Collection. Expand index (44 more) »

A Star Is Burns

"A Star Is Burns" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season.

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Adam Scott (actor)

Adam Paul Scott (born April 3, 1973) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and podcaster.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

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Baron Vaughn

Baron Vaughn (born December 18, 1980) is an American comedian and actor, known for his portrayal of Nwabudike "Bud" Bergstein on the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie and Tom Servo on the 2017 revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Behind the Camera: The Cinematographer's Art

Behind the Camera: The Cinematographer's Art is the fifth book by Leonard Maltin regarding movies.

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Billy Gray (actor)

William Thomas "Billy" Gray (born January 13, 1938) is an American former actor known primarily for his role as James "Bud" Anderson, Jr., in 193 episodes of the situation comedy Father Knows Best, which aired between 1954 and 1960 on both NBC and CBS.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Chris Evans (actor)

Christopher Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor.

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Clare Kramer

Clare Elizabeth Kramer (born September 3, 1974) is an American actress best known for her starring role of Glory on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for her role as Courtney in Bring It On.

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Classic Images

Classic Images is a monthly American mail-subscription newspaper in tabloid format, founded in 1962 by film collector Sam Rubin, dedicated to film and television of the "Golden Age." Its offices are located in Muscatine, Iowa and it is published by the Muscatine Journal division of Lee Enterprises, Inc.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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DirecTV

DirecTV (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T.

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Doug Benson

Douglas Steven Benson (born July 2, 1960) is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host, actor and judge who has appeared on Getting Doug With High, Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever, Trailer Park Boys, and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Dusty and Sweets McGee

Dusty and Sweets McGee is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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E!

E! (originally an initialism of Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.

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Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight (or simply ET) is an American first-run syndicated entertainment television newsmagazine that is distributed by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best is an American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Freakazoid!

Freakazoid! is an American animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB.

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Genius Products

Genius Products (also known as Genius Entertainment) was an entertainment company based in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Godzilla

() is a monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan.

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Gorgo (film)

Gorgo is a 1961 British-American science fiction monster film directed by Eugène Lourié.

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American comedy horror film, and the sequel to the 1984 film Gremlins.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Hot Ticket

Hot Ticket is a syndicated movie review and entertainment television program from 2001 to 2004.

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Independent Spirit Awards

The Film Independent Spirit Awards (abbreviated "Spirit Awards" and originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers.

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IndieWire

IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996.

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Isn't It Romantic? (1948 film)

Isn't It Romantic? is a 1948 American musical film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jimmy Pardo

James Ronald Pardo, Jr. (born July 28, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host of the long-running comedy podcast Never Not Funny.

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John Davidson (entertainer)

John Hamilton Davidson (born December 13, 1941) is an American actor, singer, and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991.

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Joyce Kulhawik

Joyce Kulhawik (born 1952) was the arts and entertainment anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV News in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Kevin Pollak's Chat Show

Kevin Pollak's Chat Show is a weekly interview program hosted by comedian and impressionist Kevin Pollak and streamed over the web on YouTube.

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Laserblast

Laserblast is a 1978 American science fiction film about an unhappy teenage loner who discovers an alien laser cannon and goes on a murderous rampage, seeking revenge against those who he feels have wronged him.

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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide was a book-format collection of movie capsule reviews that began in 1969, was updated biennially after 1978, and then annually after 1986.

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Lisa Simpson

Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Marge Simpson

Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson (Bouvier) is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family.

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Mecha-Streisand

"Mecha-Streisand" is the twelfth episode in the first season of the American animated television series South Park.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mike Nelson (character)

Michael John "Mike" Nelson is a fictional character in the comedy science fiction television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (or simply National Film Board or NFB) (French: Office national du film du Canada, or ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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National Student Film Institute

The National Student Film Institute (NSFI), formerly the Los Angeles Student Film Institute (LASFI), was founded in 1978 by Brenda Norman, Dave Master, Jutti Marsh and Ralph Rogers as a festival for films made by children from kindergarten through ninth grade.

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New American Library

The New American Library (NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Our Gang

Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) are a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures.

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Password Plus and Super Password

Password Plus and Super Password are American TV game shows that aired separately between 1979 and 1989.

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Paul F. Tompkins

Paul Francis Tompkins (born September 12, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer.

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Paul Scheer

Paul Christian Scheer (born January 31, 1976) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, and podcaster.

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Pearl Forrester

Pearl Forrester is a character on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series, played by Mary Jo Pehl.

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Peter Segal

Peter Segal (born 1962) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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Pyramid (game show)

Pyramid is an American television game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally.

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Reelz

Reelz (also known as REELZCHANNEL) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.

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Robert Smith (musician)

Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Samm Levine

Samuel Franklin "Samm" Levine (born March 12, 1982) is an American actor and comedian.

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Settlement (litigation)

In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

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Sonar Entertainment

Sonar Entertainment, Inc., formerly known as RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment, Qintex Entertainment, HRI Group and Robert Halmi Inc., is an American entertainment company specializing in television miniseries and movies and owned by Catalyst Capital Group.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Starz

Starz (stylized as STARZ; pronounced "stars") is an American premium cable and satellite television network which serves as Starz Inc.'s flagship service.

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Teaneck High School

Teaneck High School (known as The Castle on the Hill) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Teaneck Public Schools.

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Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area.

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The New School for Social Research

The New School for Social Research (NSSR) is an educational institution that is part of The New School in New York City, USA.

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The Record (Bergen County)

The Record (colloquially called The Bergen Record or The Record of Hackensack) is a newspaper in North Jersey, United States.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958.

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The Time Machine (1960 film)

The Time Machine (also known promotionally as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Todd Newton

James Todd Newton (born May 5, 1970) is an American entertainment personality, a Daytime Emmy winning game show host, and author/speaker.

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Transylvania 6-5000 (1985 film)

Transylvania 6-5000 is a 1985 American/Yugoslav horror comedy film about two tabloid reporters who travel to modern-day Transylvania to uncover the truth behind Frankenstein sightings.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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Ultraman

is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction television series created by Eiji Tsuburaya.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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USC School of Cinematic Arts

The USC School of Cinematic Arts (commonly referred to as SCA)—formerly the USC School of Cinema-Television, otherwise known as CNTV—is a private media school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walt Disney Treasures

Walt Disney Treasures is a series of two-disc DVD collections of Disney cartoons, television episodes and other material.

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Warner Archive Collection

The Warner Archive Collection is a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD series started by Warner Home Video on March 23, 2009, with the intention of putting previously unreleased catalog films on DVD for the first time.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Maltin

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