Pacific Arts Corporation

Pacific Arts Corporation

Pacific Arts is a company formed by Michael Nesmith circa 1974 to coordinate his multimedia projects, including music and video releases. The company is associated with a "drawing" dove logo. The first album released under the Pacific Arts record label was in September, 1974 of Nesmith's own concept album, "The Prison".

In 1981, Pacific Arts Video released the home video, "Elephant Parts", which featured Nesmith performing various comedy skits and music videos. "Elephant Parts" was an early home video available to consumers and would win the first Grammy award for a Music Video.

In 1990, Pacific Arts secured a contract with PBS to distribute their video cataloge. However, PBS violated the contract and failed to live up to the agreement and Nesmith and Pacific Arts sued PBS for in 1993 for lost royalities. [ [http://www.current.org/pbs/pbs503v.html Current.org | PBS and producers sue video distributor, 1995 ] ] In 1999, Nesmith was awarded $47 million (which would be later settled between PBS and Pacific Arts for an undisclosed amount).

Pacific Arts Audio released the first independent record, Nesmith's "Tropical Campfires" in 1992. The company also released albums from the band, Hellecasters.

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