Alpha Video

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.

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). 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. Alpha Video is one of a group of companies, including Collectables Records, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES.com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.

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.

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. 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". 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.

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". 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. 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. 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

*"The Chase (1946)"
*"High Voltage"
*"Hercules Unchained"
*"The Kennel Murder Case"
*"Last Woman on Earth"
*""Manos" The Hands of Fate"
*"The Moonstone"
*"Scarlet Street"
*"Second Chance"
*"A Walk in the Sun"

Exploitation films

*"Assassin of Youth"
*"Chained for Life"
*"Child Bride"
*"The Cocaine Fiends"
*"Marihuana"
*"Reefer Madness"
*"Sex Madness"

Movie serials

*"Ace Drummond"
*"The Devil Horse
*"Fighting with Kit Carson"
*"The Fighting Marines"
*"Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe"
*"Holt of the Secret Service"
*"Junior G-Men"
*"King of the Wild"
*"The Phantom Empire"
*"Radar Men from the Moon"
*"Sky Raiders"
*"Undersea Kingdom"
*"Zorro's Fighting Legion"

ilent films

*"Broken Blossoms"
*"Intolerance (film)"
*"Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens"
*"Orphans of the Storm"
*"The Bat (1926 film)"
*"The Birth of a Nation"
*"The General (1927 film)"
*"The Golem (1920 film)"
*"The Lost World (1925 film)"
*"The Mechanical Man"
*"The Squaw Man"
*"The Thief of Baghdad (1924)"

Television shows

*"The Adventures of Champion"
*"The Adventures of Jim Bowie"
*"The Adventures of Long John Silver
*"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
*"The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)"
*"The Adventures of Sir Lancelot"
*"Annie Oakley (TV series)"
*"The Betty Hutton Show"
*"Captain Video and His Video Rangers"
*"Diver Dan"
*"Dusty's Trail"
*"Dragnet (series)"
*"Fury (TV series)"
*"I Married Joan"
*"The Lone Ranger"
*"Mack and Myer for Hire"
*"Martin Kane, Private Eye "
*"Meet Corliss Archer"
*"Mr. and Mrs. North"
*"One Step Beyond (TV series)"
*"Rocky King, Inside Detective"
*"Sky King"
*"The Veil"
*"Wagon Train"
*"What's My Line?"
*"You Asked For It"
*"You Bet Your Life"

External links

* [http://www.oldies.com Alpha Video's website]
* [http://www.oldies.com/series-view/alpha.html Alpha New Cinema series official site]
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* [http://alphavideo.blogspot.com Official Blog of Alpha Video]