Harmony Gold USA

Type	Private company
Founded	Los Angeles, California (1983)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, USA
Key people	Frank Agrama, Chairman & CEO Alan Letz, Executive VP Melissa Wohl, VP Tommy Yune, Creative Director
Industry	Television programs
Products	Motion pictures, Television programs, Mini-series, Animation
Website	harmonygold.com

Harmony Gold is a television production and distribution company established in 1983. It is best known as the “creator” and main distributor of the anime series Robotech. It also partially dubbed the Dragon Ball series in the late 1980s.

Harmony Gold also partly funded the controversial 1986 Shaka Zulu TV series in South Africa in spite of economic sanctions. After the cancellation of Robotech II: The Sentinels, a number of the staff were recruited to work at Saban Entertainment. The company’s public profile then fell into a near-dormant state for much of the 1990s, and its flagship Robotech franchise also fell into a state of neglect. In recent years, Harmony Gold appears to have rebounded on the DVD medium with the success of its Robotech series, released in partnership with ADV Films.

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[edit] Films

• Abe & Bruno (2005)
• American Strays (1996)
• Ball & Chain (2003)
• Crazy Jones (2001)
• Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
• Death to the Supermodels (2004)
• Dirt (2001)
• Faster (2003)
• Going Down (2003)
• The Lost World (1992)
• Return to the Lost World (1993)
• Queen Kong (1976)
• Siblings (2004)
• Welcome to the Neighborhood (2002)

[edit] Mini-Series

• Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
• Heidi (1993)
• King of the Olympics (1988)
• The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988)
• Shaka Zulu (1986)
• Sherlock Holmes & The Leading Lady (1990)
• Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)

[edit] Animation

• The Brave Frog (1985)
• Captain Future (1987)
• Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985) (an amalgamation of two different anime series from Toei Animation)
  • Captain Harlock (1978-1982)
  • Queen Millennia (1981-1982)
• Casshan: Robot Hunter (1994)
• Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1983)
• Dragon Ball (1989?) (the first five episodes and movies 1 and 3)
• Dr.Slump (1984?) (pilot of the first episode)
• Flower Angel (1986)
• Frankenstein (1983)
• Gatchaman (1994)
• Goldwing (1980)
• Lensman: Power of the Lens (1987)
• Lensman: Secret of the Lens (1988)
• Little Women's Christmas Story (1986)
• Lococomotion (200?) (aka. Tangoo & Ullashong)
• Magical Princess Gigi (1986) (aka. Gigi and the Fountain of Youth)
• Once Upon a Time (AKA Windaria) (1986)
• Robotech (1985) (an amalgamation of three different anime series from Tatsunoko Productions)
  • The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)
  • The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (1984)
  • Genesis Climber Mospeada (1983)
• Codename: Robotech (1985) (an extended pilot of the 1985 series)
• Robotech: The Movie (1986)
• Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987)
• Robotech 3000 (2000)
• Robotech: Remastered (2003-2004) (remastered and extended version of the 1985 series)
• Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006)
• Seven Seas: The Legend of Blue (200?)
• Thumbelina (Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Oyayubi Hime) (the 1978 Toei Animation feature film, not the 1992 Enoki Films TV series)
• The World of the Talisman (aka. Planetbusters, Birth) (1987)
• The Call of the WildToei Animation(dubbed 1982 Japanese production)
• Timefighters In the Land of Fantasy (1987)

[edit] Documentary Series & Specials

• Animals of Africa (1987)
• Faster (2003)
• The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (1988)
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2004)
• Walking After Midnight (1999)

[edit] Series

• Cobra (1993–1994)
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954, remastered 1999)

[edit] Mechwarrior 5 Copyright Dispute

Harmony Gold is currently issuing cease and desist orders against sites displaying images and trailers from the upcoming MechWarrior (reboot) video game.^[1] They claim that the images portray ’mechs that they own the rights to, according to a legal settlement from 1996.^[2] The video game developers claim that the machines portrayed are significantly different from the Macross originals to not violate the 1996 agreement.^{[citation needed]} In addition, Harmony Gold’s license for Macross came from Tatsunoko, but Japanese courts ruled that it was Studio Nue (who made the show) that controlled the Macross intellectual property. The license Tatsunoko was given was for distribution only, and did not allow Tatsunoko to control the intellectual property.

[edit] External links

• HarmonyGold.com—official website.
• Harmony Gold USA at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] References

1. ^ Luke Plunkett (2009). "Mechwarrior 5 Runs Into Legal Trouble". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5352295/mechwarrior-5-runs-into-legal-trouble. Retrieved 2009-09-05. 
2. ^ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION (1996). "Harmony Gold USA vs FASA". Legal Filing. http://alex.kaempen.org/harmony_gold_v._fasa.html. Retrieved 2009-09-05.