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Alpha Video (also known as Alpha Home Entertainment) is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is

Alpha Video releases over 25 new DVD titles monthly and has over 1,700 DVDs in their active catalog, including hundreds of rare films and TV shows from Hollywood's past.

With 244+ DVDs worth of TV shows in active distribution, industry publication DVD Release Report (Number 524, 3/28/2007) ranked Alpha Video #3 in the "Top 25 Sources for TV Series on DVD Through the Period Ending March 31, 2007", behind Warner Home Video (471 releases) and Paramount Home Entertainment (376 releases). Warner Home Video is the Home video unit of Warner Bros Entertainment Inc Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. With over 1,044 releases available, the same publication ranked Alpha Video #1 in the "Top 25 Sources for Theatrical Catalog on DVD. "

The company is privately-held, and owned by Collectables Records founder Jerry Greene. Collectables recording artists The following artists have had at least one Recording re-issued on the Collectables label Alpha Video is one of a group of companies, including Collectables Records, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES. Collectables recording artists The following artists have had at least one Recording re-issued on the Collectables label com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.

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Alpha New Cinema

In 2004, Alpha Video introduced Alpha New Cinema, an imprint "whose goal is to present eclectic, interesting and unusual contemporary motion pictures and television productions. " Notables releases from Alpha New Cinema include the Charlie Gracie documentary, Fabulous! An Intimate Portrait of a Rock Pioneer, Mark Redfield's The Death of Poe, Terror in the Tropics with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and several films by Ed Wood veteran, Conrad Brooks. Charlie Gracie (born Charles Anthony Graci on May 14, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rock The Death of Poe is a 2006 Independent film that tells the tragic story of the mysterious disappearance and death of the American author Béla Lugosi (October 20 1882 &ndash August 16 1956 was an iconic Hungarian stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Boris Karloff ( 23 November, &ndash 2 February,) was an English actor who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s Ed Wood redirects here For the film see Ed Wood (film, and for the former British Foreign Secretary see E Conrad Brooks (born Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3, 1931 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American actor

Release of Ted V. Mikels' Catalog on DVD

In 2007, Alpha Video released the catalog of filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, many titles of which had previously been available from Image Entertainment, under the Alpha New Cinema imprint. Ted V Mikels (born 29 April 1929) is an American Filmmaker of independent cult films Image Entertainment Inc. is a leading independent licensee producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America with approximately 3000 exclusive DVD Titles released include 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She Devils. Girl in Gold Boots is a 1969 crime / Drama film about the seedy underworld of Go-Go dancing, directed by Ted V Later that year, Alpha released the Ted V. Mikel's Signature Collection, a 6-DVD boxset which contains those six titles and is autographed by Mikels. In 2008, the company released Mark of the Astro-Zombies, the sequel to Mikels' The Astro-Zombies, on DVD. The Astro-Zombies, aka Space Zombies aka The Space Vampires, is a 1969 science fiction Horror film

Notable releases

The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time

In 2006, Alpha Video partnered with Merv Griffin to release a 3-DVD box set of interviews from The Merv Griffin Show entitled The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of The Most Interesting People of Our Time. Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin Jr ( July 6, 1925 &ndash August 12, 2007) was an American Television host and The Merv Griffin Show was a long-running American Television talk show, starring singer Merv Griffin. This set contained one DVD of "Hollywood Legend" interviews, including Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Roy Rogers, Grace Kelly and John Wayne. George Orson Welles (May 6 1915 – October 10 1985 was an Academy Award -winning director, writer actor and producer for film stage radio and television (ˈbærjman in Swedish but usually ˈbɝgmən in English (August 29 1915 &ndash August 29 1982 was a Swedish three-time Academy Award -winning and two-time Emmy Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 &ndash 5 August 1984 was a Welsh multiple award-winning Actor. Sophia Loren (born September 20 1934 is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress born Sofia Villani Scicolone Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5 1911 &ndash July 6 1998 was a singer and Cowboy Actor. Grace Patricia Kelly (later Grace Princess of Monaco; November 12 1929 &ndash September 14 1982 was an Academy Award -winning American film and John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American The second DVD contained interviews with comedians, including Jack Benny, Don Rickles, Jerry Seinfeld, Carl Reiner, Richard Pryor, George Burns, Jay Leno and George Carlin. Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American Comedian, vaudevillian For the radio and television announcer see Donald Rickles (announcer. Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born on April 29 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian actor and writer Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American Actor, Film director, producer, Writer and Comedian Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III ( December 1, 1940 &ndash December 10, 2005) was an American Comedian, Actor George Burns ( January 20 1896 &ndash March 9 1996; born Nathan Birnbaum) was an American comedian, Actor James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28 1950 is an Emmy Award -winning American Stand-up comedian and Television host George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12 1937 – June 22 2008 was an American stand-up comedian, often considered one of the best of all time The final DVD in the set contained interviews with "Extraordinary Guests" such as Walter Cronkite, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Feature films

Exploitation films

Movie serials

Silent films

Television shows

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