I recorded it off of PBS back in the day. There apparently was an LD release in Japan.
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/28211/SS098-0022/SFX-Special
Interesting. Like a lot of these 80’s VFX documentaries they don’t have very original or even consistent names, so they’re very hard to track down. Plus, there’s apparently a 1984 thriller called “Special Effects” so I only get links to info about that film when I try to google this doc. I also just discovered that there’s a 2011 thread dedicated to the LD you linked to, though they didn’t seem to get much further than that with it.