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'''Video Collection International''' (formerly '''[[The Video Collection]]''') was a UK-based video company formed in 1984 and established in 1985. Originally part of the Prestwich Group, based in New Southgate, London, it was subject to a management buyout headed by Steve Ayres as CEO and Paddy Toomey (ex-Woolworths) as MD. The vision of "Sell Through Video" was born with the strong Woolworths association driving the retail sales. The Video Collection was allied with [[ITV1 IDs|ITV]] and [[Channel 4]], and distributed many of their titles from their franchises; they also operated the [[Cinema Club]] budget label, as well as an American division, [[Strand Home Video]]. The company was renamed to '''VCI''' in 1995 due to financial difficulties, and in 1999 the company was sold to the Kingfisher group. In 2004, the company merged with [[BBC Video]] to form [[2 Entertain]].

'''Logo:''' In front of a black background, there is a {{color|grey}} wire frame globe, a bright light emitting godrays in the top left of the screen and some {{color|grey}} mist below, and in front of those, a metal object flips in, along with a {{color|red}} sphere. This is later revealed to be the "'''{{color|silver|C}}'''" in "VCI" in a modified Futura font, which flips around as it zooms out (with the sphere in the centre). The letters "'''{{color|silver|V}}'''" and "'''{{color|silver|I}}'''" would later spin in and arrange themselves vertically.

'''Variants:'''

* There are two DVD variants:  

**The VCI text fades out, the light glows and the DVD logo fades in. This variant appears in a 4:3 ratio and appears mainly on fullscreen DVDs (some widescreen DVDs, though, use this variant despite the logo remaining in fullscreen).

**The DVD logo, which is also metallic, forms in the top right of the screen. This variant appears in a 16:9 ratio and mainly appears on widescreen DVDs. However, the VCI logo itself is cheaply made, as the logo starts in stretched 4:3, and then it stretches out into 16:9 as the logo finishes.

*On ''Sindy the Fairy Princess'', the VCI DVD logo (widescreen variant) plays as normal and after the logo ends, everything except the VCI text fades to black and the text moves to the left on the screen. The Optical Image logo fades into the right side and the word "Presents" appears.

*A still variant also surprisingly appears before the ''Rosie and Jim'' episode "Locks" on the 2016 UK DVD release of ''Rosie and Jim: Bumper Pack''.

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