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Dec 21, 1999 · Here's the 1999 (2004 reprint) VHS opening to The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. 1. Columbia TriStar Home Video logo 1993-2001. 2. FBI Warning screen. 3. Surrond Sound logo 1996-2006.
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Logo (March 24, 2005-) Visuals: Over a set of purple clouds, a bright light with rays shooting outward appears, which start to create some lens flares. A set of white lines of light appear and zoom out to solidify into the 1991 Sony Pictures Entertainment logo, which gives off rays of light.
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- Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
- Sony Video
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
- RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video
- RCA/Columbia Pictures/Hoyts Video Pty. Ltd.
- Gaumont Columbia Pictures RCA Video
- SVS/Triumph
- Gaumont Columbia Tristar Home Video
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the and distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was first established in November 1979 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. as "Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment", to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, and Super 8mm, with Warner Bros....
1st Logo (November 1979-November 1982)
Nickname: "The Sunburst" Logo: The 1975-1981 Columbia Pictures "Sunburst" theatrical logo plays as normal, but there is a video freeze at the end, with "Columbia Pictures" blacked out by the words. COLUMBIA PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS written in white, in Cooper Black font, is chyroned in below. Variants: •There is a black and white version of this logo seen on classic Columbia movies and shorts in B&W. •The closing transition will vary from video to video, with it fading to black in one version while another cuts to black. •The Bridge of River Kwai and Easy Rider have a shortened version that starts with the sunburst, similar to the Columbia Pictures Pay Television logo and has the text more obviously chyroned in, in a white Helvetica font with a gray drop shadow. FX/SFX: Same as the "Sunburst" logo. Music/Sounds: Same as the theatrical version. Availability: Has rare written all over it. •Amazingly, Columbia TriStar Home Video kept this logo on the 1990's VHS issues of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, It's My Turn, Cat Ballou, and The Three Stooges Vol. 3: An Ache in Every Stake (making its appearances on all four after a CTHV logo), and it also made appearances on Eighties reissues of such pre-1983 titles as the aforementioned quartet plus Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Bye Bye Birdie, ...And Justice for All., Midnight Express, The Taming of the Shrew, The Three Stooges Vol. 1: A Bird in the Head, and The Three Stooges Vol. 2: Micro-Phonies, due to them using older tape masters. •You can also find this logo on their original Seventies clamshell releases, such as Born Free, Breakout, The New Centurions, The Deep, You Light Up My Life, Midnight Express, Gilda, The Taming of the Shrew, Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), A Man for All Seasons, and Bye Bye Birdie. •Surprisingly, this logo also appeared on early-to-mid-Eighties video prints of Gerald McBoing Boing and Mr. Magoo cartoons, and even the 1983 laserdisc release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail contains this as well, due to using the 1982 VHS tape master. •Tapes with the black & white version include Gilda, Born Yesterday, and Knock on Any Door. •Starting in late 1981, videocassettes of Columbia Pictures films would go straight to the logo used at the time, a practice that continued throughout the decade. There are also some sports specials and non-Columbia Pictures material that contain this logo, such as the 1982 VHS of The Batty World of Baseball. The last videocassettes to use this logo include Hanover Street (itself a Columbia film), Love and Anarchy, To Forget Venice, and the aforementioned Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
2nd Logo (1981-1983)
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(1980s)
Logo: On a white background is the word "SONY" in its respective font, on the top left of the screen. Below it is the stylized word "Video" outlined with a drop shadow effect with a line below. Variants: Below the word "Video", on the line and in the same stylized font, are: •LP: VHS tapes that play in the LP mode. Generally focused on concerts and video compilations. •EP: VHS tapes that play in the EP mode. •45: VHS tapes of 3 songs per artist. •Variant 45: On a black background, the white Sony logo appears in the top farther left of the screen. In the middle is a white segmented rectangle with a black segmented shooting star in the middle and "VIDEO 45" also in black with a white shadow on the right.
1st Logo (June 1983-October 1987)
Nickname: "RCA/Columbia Box" Logo: On a black background, a white-bordered box appears. In it are two black rounded rectangles, with the first bearing the "RCA" logo in red, and the second having the 1981 Columbia Pictures print logo in a blue arch-shaped border with "Columbia Pictures" below. "HOME VIDEO" is at the bottom of the white border, in black. Variants: •Sometimes the RCA and Columbia logos flip in on a space background, then the white border "swings in" to surround it. •On Beany and Cecil Volume 1, the flipping animation is different and there isn't a space background. •There is a variant on some releases where the border is chrome and "sparkling" effects are layered on. Sometimes at the end of post-credit coming attractions, a copyright stamp would appear below it.
2nd Logo (February 1986-December 18, 1991)
Nicknames: "The Cube", "The Spinning Cube", "RCA/Columbia Box II", "CGI RCA/Columbia Box", "The RCA/Columbia Cube" Logo: On a black background, we see a rotating cube, featuring the same logo as stated above on each side (either 1, 3, or 4 sides). The main difference to the logo, however, is that the border is now silvery, with "HOME VIDEO" etched in silver. A white sparkle appears on the side as it rotates. Variants: •On later releases with this logo, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Toy Soldiers, early prints of City Slickers, Critters 3, and Alligator 2: The Mutation, it fades out earlier than usual. The first release to use this variation was the 1989 VHS of Cover Girl. •An even shorter version appears on the 1989 VHS of Who's Harry Crumb?, where the logo is only seen for two seconds. (This is only seen before a video trailer for Tap.) •On at least one promo tape, there is a variant where the logo is on a marble background FX/SFX: The CGI rotating cube, the white sparkle. Nice effects, but it pales in comparison to its international counterpart. Music/Sounds: None. Music/Sounds Variant: On No Holds Barred, this plasters the New Line Cinema logo, keeping the film's opening title music and sound effects (of a ring announcer and a cheering crowd) while this logo is playing. Strangely, this plaster was retained on a Showtime airing from December 1990 (presumably Showtime used a transfer of a video master in this case). Availability: Uncommon to rare. This logo is slightly easier to come across, seeing that it is more recent. However, this logo was only used in the United States and Canada. •Again, Columbia releases went straight to the movie until 1989 (the last release to do so was Ghostbusters II). Also, from 1986-87, this logo was restricted to the trailer portion of the tapes. •Releases that had this logo include True Believer, Casualties of War, Postcards from the Edge, earlier prints of Glory, Pump Up the Volume, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Far Out Man, Labyrinth (1986), The Blob (1988), the uncut version of 976-EVIL, The Phantom of the Opera (1989), Xtro II: The Second Encounter, Critters 2, Night of the Living Dead (1990), Relentless, Hit List, Out of the Dark, Clownhouse, Hairspray (1988), Fast Getaway, Who's Harry Crumb?, the first two Look Who's Talking films, The Gods Must Be Crazy II, Troop Beverly Hills, Awakenings, Willow (a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release produced by Lucasfilm Ltd.), and many, many more. •In some cases, the logo appears twice, at both ends of whatever promo is on the tape. •Early prints of Another You have the RCA/Columbia print logo, but no logo of any kind is on the tape.
1st Logo (1982-1991?)
Nickname: "RCA/Columbia Box" Logo: On a colored background, the same box from the 1st RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video logo, in 2D, fades in. "HOME VIDEO" is replaced by "INTERNATIONAL VIDEO". Sometimes, the box has a black border, other times, it doesn't have one. Variants: •On PAL tapes in Germany, the logo is against a sky blue background, after its warning screen is finished scrolling. Spanish PAL tapes have the same variant as well, but without the same warning screen. •There is a variation with a dodger blue background, at least on PAL tapes from Italy. •Some UK tapes have a variation with a crimson background, while others (including a tape of Jabberwocky) have this with a white background. •Japanese tapes would use a dark gray background. •Another variant has a redrawn (slightly uglier) box, that has "Pictures" smaller than "Columbia", a larger RCA logo and everything is on a black background. On Argentinian releases from Videomega Entertainment and LK-Tel Video, the logo would usually coast down from the center and cover the screen. •Some tapes use the 5th variant, but with a white background, and everything in the large box (Columbia print logo and text) is red and black rather than blue and white. There is also a blue background version that was seen on some Australian VHS tapes, like The Deep. •A version of the blue background variant exists where it cuts in rather than fading in.
2nd Logo (1987-1992)
Nicknames: "The International Spinning Cube", "RCA/Columbia Box II", "The RCA/Columbia Cube", "The CGI Cube", "The Cube Returns" Logo: On a black background, a 3D cube comes up from the screen. It has the RCA logo in red at the top and "INTERNATIONAL VIDEO" at the bottom. Then the Columbia Pictures print logo in blue and white swoops up from the bottom. The cube spins once and settles down, facing the viewers. Variations: •On some PAL tapes, the animation takes place on a pale marble background. When the logo has finished animating, it "ripples" out and the warning scrolls up, when the ripples ended. •On releases from Contacto Video in Colombia, the RCA/Columbia logo shrinks down to the lower right of the screen. Then the Contacto Video logo animates, then it shrinks and moves to the upper-left of the screen. •At the end of the 1990 PAL tape of Radio Days, this variant plays, then a blue and black gradient background fades in and the RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video logo splits into 3 copies of the logo and shines, then a VHS tape slides in and the logo goes into the VHS tape and flashes. FX/SFX: The 3D cube rising, the Columbia Pictures print logo rising from the bottom. Music/Sounds: A dramatic synthesized fanfare, complete with a whoosh sound effect when the Columbia logo rises from the bottom and a reverse cymbal when the cube settles down. Music/Sounds Variants: •Rarely, it is silent. •The German PAL version uses a completely different theme with a synth sounder similar to a North American police car or ambulance siren at the beginning. •Japanese tapes use a creepier-sounding whispering synth tune, with a bong, a whoosh for the Columbia Pictures logo swooping in, and a drumbeat. •On the Spanish VHS of The Harder They Fall, an announcer speaks Spanish,
1st Logo (1983-1988)
Logo: On a blue/black gradient background, we see the same box from the RCA/Columbia Pictures logo, except with an extra section to accomodate the Hoyts logo (in red), and with "VIDEO PTY. LTD." replacing "HOME VIDEO" or "INTERNATIONAL VIDEO". Variant: A variant used in TV ads from around the time has the text "Just wait till you see the New Video Releases from..." which then fades into the logo box. The background is a dark-to-light blue gradient with a pattern of RCA, Hoyts and Columbia logos. Another variation had the text scrolling up the screen, with the logo box then zooming down from the top. Technique: None. Audio: None. Availability: On Australian PAL tapes of releases from Columbia, TriStar, Cannon, etc between 1983 & 1988. Tapes that have this logo include the 1987 VHS of About Last Night..., the 1985 VHS of Ghostbusters, and a 1984 VHS of Educating Rita.
2nd Logo (1988-1992)
Logo; Same as the 2nd RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video logo of the era, except the two holes are smaller, a third hole is added with the Hoyts logo, and "VIDEO PTY. LTD." replaces "INTERNATIONAL VIDEO". Variants: •When previews of movies are shown, after this logo plays, it fades to the silver 3D text "COMING ATTRACTIONS", which shines. Sometimes, we can see chyroned text in white saying "STAY TUNED FOR MORE" (Coming Attractions text) "AFTER THIS FEATURE". •A still version has been spotted. This is sometimes used in tandem with the animated version. •A silent variant exists, presumably used as a closing variant.
1st Logo (1982-1989)
Logo: On a black background, a white rectangle spins upwards, containing the 1981-1995 Gaumont logo in white and slightly off center. It eventually rests at the top of the screen as the Columbia Pictures print logo at the time (but arranged horizontally) in blue spins up from the bottom left corner and rests below the Gaumont section. The 2 halves of the box then swing in around the logo and encase it. Below them, the text "RCA VIDEO" (with the former being the RCA logo and the latter being just a red outline) zooms in from below the screen and a incomplete rectangle then slides up, enclosing it and finishing the logo. Technique: Simple cel animation. Audio: A fanfare with drums and brass instruments that sounds identical to the 20th Century Fox fanfare and the Superman theme. Availability: Seen on French releases of Gaumont and Columbia Pictures (and TriStar Pictures) and even some Orion Pictures movies from the time. It's unsure but doubtful if it appears on Canadian French releases distributed by ISV, like Alone in the Dark (to name one).
2nd Logo (1989-1993)
Visuals: On a space background, several balls zoom out with trail effects to the back of the screen. A 3D version of the Gaumont logo then drops down with a trail behind it and zooms out to its position, just as the balls stop. A blue wire frame trail then zooms in and reveals itself to be the Columbia Pictures print logo (but with "films" instead), swinging a bit before stopping in the middle. The RCA logo then comes in and moves into position, with the "A" flipping in the process. "VIDEO" zooms in beside it and 2 halves of a 3-tiered rectangle outline then come in, enclosing the logo. The spaces are then wiped with black to block out the stars. The final result is almost exactly the same as the previous logo and the differences being the Columbia logo and the tighter spacing. Technique: CGI. Audio: Same as the previous logo. Availability: Same as the above.
Sony Video Software, Inc. 1st Logo (1983-1987)
Logo: On a black background, we see the Sony logo in white. Below it, in a "modern" font, are the words "VIDEO SOFTWARE OPERATIONS (or COMPANY)". A registered trademark symbol sits next to the Sony logo. FX/SFX: None. Music/Sounds: None. Availability: Ultra rare. Check on older VHS copies of The Snowman, as well as a VHS of Slaughterhouse Rock for this logo. Also seen on Japanese prints of the Sesame Street VHS tapes "Bedtime Stories & Songs" & "Getting Ready to Read". Editor's Note: None.
2nd Logo (1987-1991, 1998)
Nickname: “Blue SVS” Logo: On a black background, a blue “V” zooms away from the viewer and makes a dip to the center while two blue “S”s slide from behind the "V", one going to the left, the other to the right. “Inc” slides from the bottom sideways to the right of the letters. A light blue box surrounds the whole thing. FX/SFX: Simple, but effective CGI animation. Music/Sounds: A synthesized whoosh. Availability: Ultra rare, but can seen on '80s prints of The Snowman, Honeymoon Horror, An Unremarkable Life, The Rejuvinator, Best of the Best, Tiger Warsaw, Out of the Body, Night Wars, Cameron's Closet, Spookies, Escape from Safe Haven, Midnight (Starring Lynn Redgrave), No Dead Heroes, Summer Job, and One Man Out. Also seen on seen on Japanese prints of the Sesame Street VHS tapes: "I'm Glad I'm Me", "Count It Higher", "Getting Ready for School", "Big Bird in China", "Big Bird's Favorite Party Games" and "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street". It also made a surprise appearance on a 1998 reprint of Best of the Best with a SVS/Triumph label and a Columbia TriStar Home Video box. Editor's Note: None.
(1991-1992)
Visuals: Same as the 2nd RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video logo, only the cube now has a blue rectangle, with "SVS" in a Roman font, then a line, then "TRIUMPH" underneath in a condensed font. There is a white border around each side. Variants: •New Line releases (Suburban Commando, Late for Dinner, etc.), as well as the screener copies of Driving Me Crazy and Spirit of '76, have a still logo that has a blue border and contains some ugly "shining effects". •The screener copy of Toy Soldiers has a completely still variant, with a blue outline and grayish-silver rectangle, and the text a blue-white gradient.
Logo (1993-Early 2000s)
Visuals: Against a black background, we see a portrait of the Columbia Pictures torch lady spin in from the top left corner of the screen. The TriStar pegasus portrait does the same from the opposing direction. The words "TRISTAR" and "COLUMBIA" slide in from opposing sides of the screen, only to slightly zoom back and position themselves on their respective portraits. Then, a gradient lilac version of the Gaumont daisy zooms out and spins, situating itself on the top of the logo. The Gaumont text fades in while "HOME VIDEO" in red slides down from the two portraits and zooms back slightly. A box outline fades in, encasing the logo. Variants: •Since later releases have the warning screen play the theme first, the logo is shortened to the boxes moving in, the box being drawn in and the text appearing from it. •At the end of the VHS TV spot for Universal Soldier, the still version of the logo is zoomed out further than usual.
Oct 20, 2024 · 2nd Logo (2001-2002) Visuals: Same as the 2nd Columbia Tristar Home Video logo, but the background is black and the text is thinner, with "ENTERTAINMENT" replacing "VIDEO". Variant: On a 2002 promo for DVD releases of TV shows in Sony's library, the background is white and the text is black.
This logo is simply a television-shaped tube with stripes and a white, simplistically stylized/abstract Torch Lady inside. However, it is unknown whether this showed up on covers for early Super 8mm, U-Matic, Cartrivision, Betamax or VHS releases of Columbia Pictures product or not, or whether...
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