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Audio: A harsh, droning synth sound, similar to the U.S.A. Home Video logo theme (done on a Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer and a Moog Taurus bass pedalboard). Availability: This logo can be seen on reprints of some RKO Home Video tapes and the original home video release of Laser Mission.
On-screen logo. Example of an MGM/UA-style sticker label on early THE releases, due to the fact that MGM/UA distributed them during and after Turner's short-lived ownership of MGM. Alternative, Betamax label-sized version.
Logo: On a dark red/black gradient background, the words "TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT", in a fancy blue font, fly from the top of the screen, stopping in the middle. FX/SFX: Cheap all around. Music/Sounds: A harsh, droning synth. It sounds identical to the music of the U.S.A. Home Video logo.
- Background
- 1st Logo (1986)
- 2nd Logo (1987-1991)
- 3rd Logo (1991-1993)
- 4th Logo (1993-1999)
Turner Home Entertainment, Inc. was founded on July 29, 1986 by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System to distribute the RKO Radio Pictures library on videocassette and, from 1987 to 1999, license the pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries to MGM/UA Home Video. In 1994, when Turner bought out the New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertain...
Visuals: On a black background, we see the Turner logo zooming in with the part of the "T" longer. Below "urner" we see the text "HOME ENTERTAINMENT".
echnique: Basic computer animation.
Audio: None.
Availability: Seen on the 1986 VHS release of The Great American Bash.
Visuals: On a dark red/black gradient background, the words "TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT", in a serif font, fly from the top of the screen, stopping in the middle. The logo has a blue/white gradient effect inside it, as well as a large fancy line curving around itself and forming the bridge in the "A". "NTERTAINMEN" are also underlined.
Technique: Basic computer animation.
Audio: A harsh droning synth sound, similar to the U.S.A. Home Video logo theme.
Availability:
•This logo can be seen on reprints of some RKO Home Video tapes and the original home video release of Laser Mission.
•Surprisingly, this logo also recently appeared without music during the documentary portion of Starrcade: The Essential Collection, a DVD set from World Wrestling Entertainment.
Visuals: On a space background is a blue filmstrip flying which becomes a blue light. Then the words "TURNER", "HOME" and "ENTERTAINMENT" in the same font used in the previous logo, but in sky blue and in CGI, fly out one by one from the centre of the screen and stop in the middle as a rocky background appears.
Variants:
•The logo plays normally, but it is half-superimposed to a background with two men riding on horses during the evening time.
•An international version exists, which has the logo start halfway in, forming on a black background before a purple reflective sphere appears below it. "INTERNATIONAL" in spaced out plain white letters fades in, also having a reflection.
Technique: CGI animation.
Audio: A chorus tune and a drumbeat, followed by four chorus notes when the words fly out one-by-one.
Visuals: Same as the movie logo, only "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PICTURES" and the text does not change colours.
Variants:
•There is a still version of the logo that appeared on some early releases. A different font is used as well.
•Some promos would have the mansion in an oval, just like the print logo.
•Another promo variant exists where it has the mansion in the oval but after the animation ends, the Turner Home Entertainment text turns brown just like the Turner Pictures logo. This can be found on the 1996 VHS of Jonny Quest Vs The Cyber Insects.
•There is another promo variant where it has the regular logo but it's still and has has "Also from" above it. It can be found on the 1996 VHS of Classic Jonny Quest.
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From early 1995 to early 1997, THE also distributed home video releases from New Line Home Video, taking over from Columbia TriStar Home Video as well as distributing PBS programs on home video the year before (taking over from the defunct Pacific Arts).
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