Vestron Video [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Vestron Video
Vestron Video was the main subsidiary of Vestron, Inc., a home video company based in Stamford, Connecticut that was active from 1981 to 1992, and was considered to have been a pioneer in the home video market.
History.
Vestron was founded in 1981 by Austin Owen Furst, Jr. (born 1943), an executive at HBO, who was hired to dismantle the assets of Time-Life Films. Furst bought the video rights of the film library for himself and decided to form a home
Vestron Pictures
Vestron Pictures was an American film studio and distributor, and a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of "Dirty Dancing".
The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video. Vestron also had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video.
Vestron Pictures' parent company Vestron, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy went out of business in 1991, with their