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MPI also owns the stock footage archive WPA Film Library, which offers one of the industry's largest collections of music performances, newsreels, political coverage and pop culture footage and the British Pathe Newsreel Archive. The company was originally started in 1976 as Maljack Productions, Inc.
The company branched out into video distribution in 1983. One of the first titles, The Beatles' movie ''A Hard Day's Night'', which honored the movie's 20th anniversary was an instant best seller on the Billboard Videocassette Top 40. Maljack had branched out into the vintage TV show genre with ''The Prisoner'' serving as one of the first titles to come out of the MPI Home Video label. They eventually became a leader in the vintage television show industry, along with Paramount Home Video.
In 1984, Maljack introduced the Gorgon Video line. In 1985, Maljack released a series of videocassettes featuring the lost episodes of the vintage Jackie Gleason TV show ''The Honeymooners''. Maljack also released shows via licensing agreements with such distributors like ITC Entertainment, as well as ''Captain Kangaroo''. In 1986, Maljack Productions, Inc. (MPI) released the David Selznick-produced Ronald Reagan documentary ''Reagan's Way'', which was originally commissioned for French TV.
Also, in 1986, Doc Projects Inc. had signed a deal with Maljack Productions in order to release its first documentary, ''Great Crimes of the Century''. In 1987, Maljack Productions, Inc. was officially shortened to MPI. In 1987, Frank Zappa's Honker Home Video had signed a distribution deal with MPI in order to release their titles on videocassette.
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Parade on Horseback ca. 1900s by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : April 3, 1860 - Pony Express Starts by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : April 6, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh Begins by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : February 5, 1900 - Adlai Stevenson Born by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : November 19, 1863 - Gettysburg Address by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : October 11, 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt Is Born by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : October 16, 1886 - Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion Is Born by WPA Film Library
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Emmeline Pankhurst Speaks at a Women's Suffrage Rally ca. 1903 by WPA Film Library
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Immigrants Arrive at Ellis Island ca. 1903 by WPA Film Library
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People Travel in Streetcars in New York and San Francisco ca. 1905 by WPA Film Library
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Mark Twain Drinks Tea with Two Women ca. 1909 by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : August 4, 1914 - WWI Begins - Britain Declares War on Germany by WPA Film Library
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Women Work in Factories During World War I ca. 1914 by WPA Film Library
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World War I Begins ca. 1914 by WPA Film Library
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Newsreel Highlighting the History of Pancho Villa ca. 1916 by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : August 30, 1918 - Athlete Ted Williams Is Born by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : June 15, 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown Complete the First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight by WPA Film Library
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Howard Carter Discovers Tut'ankhamun's Tomb ca. 1922 by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : February 13, 1923 - Test Pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager (Shown Here in 1949) Is Born by WPA Film Library
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This Day In History : August 23, 1926 - Rudolph Valentino Dies by WPA Film Library
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