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The Video Yearbook
Angela & Elkan Allan (Editors)
Virgin Books Ltd. | 1984 | 160 pages | ISBN 0 86369 020 3 | 20.4 mb | PDF
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ANGELA and ELKAN ALLAN are married and have previously collaborated on The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television (Times Books 1973 and Hamlyn Paperbacks 1980). His grandfather ran the first cinema in East London, the Penny Palace, where his father turned the handle of the projector. He has written about films and television for The Sunday Times and Now!, he was the first editor of Video Viewer and created The Observer Video Club.
She was show-business columnist for Woman's Own and review editor for Video Viewer. They live in a Victorian rectory in Suffolk with their two children and four cats.

"In compiling it, we have concentrated on the most stable aspect of this continually-changing industry, the pre-recorded movies on tape that came out during the year under scrutiny. We have divided up our selected 700.1983 releases into 17 categories. 'Adult' and 'nasty' have been totally ignored: most in these two categories are so repetitive that it's virtually impossible to distinguish one from another If readers insist on sampling one from each, just to say they have seen the best, we would recommend any of the Electric Blue compilations (there are at least 14), for the prettiest girls doing the most outrageous things to themselves and others. From the 'nasties' try The Evil Dead, now a cult film. Some of the critical summaries in these pages have been adapted from longer reviews, which appeared in Video Viewer in the period up to the October issue - when we were compiling that monthly magazine. The Music section is almost wholly taken from John Hazelton s perceptive reviews."

CONTENTS
Introduction 5
Hardware Year 9
Explanatory Note 10
Releases of the Year:
Action/Adventure 11
Family/Children 23
Comedy 34
Documentary 51
Drama: Modern 54
Drama: Revived 72
Drama: Costume 78
Faction 86
Horror 96
Musicals 104
Pop & Rock 109
Opera 122
Science Fiction 123
Thrillers: Recent 128
Thrillers: Revived 137
War 143
Westerns 148
Where Do I Get That Tape? 153
Index 156