From Amvest to Passport.

 Hello, it has been a while, well I thought I would pose an interesting theory,
       According to articles I've read, Passport Video a DVD company who released public domain (and non public domain, more on that later) centered documentaries on celebrities like The Marx Brothers, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, and was based out of North Hollywood, California, started, roughly, in 1989, shortly after the fall of Amvest Video, a fly-by-night organization that was created merely to distribute low-budget and low quality VHS tapes of cartoons, comedies, and documentaries and also at the same time avoid legal troubles as the founders were hot off of a lawsuit from Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. for infringing upon his creations "Alvin and the Chipmunks" as Amvest was founded as Audiofidelity records and they released a rather notorious knockoff of the Chipmunks entitled "The Happy Hamsters Sing Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits", with the main "Happy Hamster" used as the mascot for Amvest's "Kid Pics" VHS line.
       Amvest had a history of legal issues itself as, they released unlicensed and unauthorized sets of Disney cartoons under the aforementioned "Kid Pics" label and to add insult to injury, they had a rather sickening and perverted "Fan Club" that made promises that were not kept and gave out the "Fan's" (in this case a young child) information to a shady beauty pageant and cashed in on exploiting young children for financial gain.
       Amvest's legal troubles caught up with them and they went bankrupt in or around 1989. That same year, Passport Video was formed and  it doesn't help matters that producer and wife beater (lookit up) Dante J. Pugliese whose name appears in several Amvest productions, was also owner and executive producer of Passport, also, many titles originally distributed on VHS by Amvest were released on DVD by Passport (i.e. Grampa's Silly Scaries, Grampa's Monster Movies) and artwork from Amvest releases were later reused for Passport releases (100 Years of Comedy used for its cover art a painting of Laurel & Hardy used for an Amvest Video pack).
       I know it may seem like a coincidence , but as I learn more about Passport, the more its coming full circle that Amvest became Passport as the same heavy handed copyright infringement happened there (Passport was sued by the Elvis Presley estate for their "Definitive Elvis" set).