Festival Records



Festival Records  (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian  music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney  in 1952 and operated until 2005. Festival was a wholly owned subsidiary of News Limited  from 1961 to 2005, and the company was very successful for most of its fifty-year life, despite the fact that as much as 90% of its annual profit was regularly siphoned off by Rupert Murdoch  to subsidise his other media ventures

Festival Records released the first 6 Thomas and Friends VHS in 1987 and 1988. All 6 were rereleased by ABC for Kids in 1991.

VHS

 * 1) Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
 * 2) Troublesome Trucks and other stories
 * 3) Coal and other stories
 * 4) Thomas, Percy and the Coal and other stories
 * 5) Percy and Harold and other stories
 * 6) The Deputation and other stories