Pickwick Video Group
Pickwick Video Group Ltd was a home video division based in London, England and United States. It was first established in 1982. The company was divided into eight video labels:-
- Pickwick Video - published children's, sports and drama videos
- Screen Legends - published classic films and sometimes children's videos
- Ladybird Video - published children's videos
- Longman Video - published documentary and sometimes sports and children's videos.
- Fairtrade Video - published children's, sports, documentary, drama and classic films videos
- Children's Choice - published children's videos
- Mr Pickwick - published children's videos
- Hallmark - published children's videos, they still continued when Pickwick was bought by Carlton
- Rank Classic Collection - published mostly Rank films
In the 1980s, before the formation of Video Collection International, ITV regional company Central released videos under the group, usually in a collaboration with either the Screen Legends or Longman labels.
Throughout the years from 1982 to 1986, Longman Video was just a separate video company owned by Longman Group Ltd in 1982, before it got part of the Pickwick Video Group's list of video companies in 1986.
The division was dissolved in 1993 and was merged into just the Pickwick name. In 1995, it was bought by Carlton Communications and renamed as Carlton Video.
In Australia, it associated children's videos from Tempo Video, The Video Collection and Thames Video. When Pickwick closed down, the Tempo Video library was sold to ABC Video but only for the programmes that are suitable for the under fives.