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Anchor Bay Entertainment dates its origins back to two separate home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985, and Starmaker Entertainment, founded in 1988. Both companies sold budget items, including reissues of previously released home video programming, at discount prices.
Video Treasures started with public domain titles, and later made licensing deals with Color Systems Technology, Vestron Video, Heron Communications (including Media Home Entertainment and Hi-Tops Video), Britt Allcroft (specifically the Thomas the Tank Engine series, which was inherited from Strand Home Video when Video Treasures’ parent company Handleman purchased that label from Video Collection International in December 1993), Trans World Entertainment, Regal Video, Virgin Vision, Hal Roach Studios, Video Communications Inc., Jerry Lewis, and Orion Pictures, among others.
