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Golden Books Family Entertainment was established by children's book publisher Golden Books as its home video unit. Its earliest releases in the 1985-1986 timeframe were probably the most well-remembered, featuring adaptions of popular Golden Books using illustrations shot out of the books with very limited animation effects added. They also released many other children's entertainment videos, often under the "GoldenVision" and "Golden Step Ahead" names. In 1997, the newly formed Golden Books Family Entertainment acquired the family programming from Broadway Video and began releasing videos through Sony Wonder. On August 16, 2001, the assets of Golden Books were sold to Classic Media, L.L.C. (since acquired by Entertainment Rights plc, now Boomerang Media, L.L.C.) and Random House (which now continues Golden Books as a standalone imprint) in a bankruptcy court auction, with Classic Media acquiring the libraries and Random House acquiring the publishing division. Classic Media continued releasing the Golden Books Family Entertainment catalog through Sony Wonder until 2007, when it changed distributors to Genius Products after Sony BMG Music Entertainment shut down Sony Wonder, but was moved to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on June 21. The catalog was later transferred to Vivendi Entertainment (now "Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment") after Genius Products announced to exit the home entertainment business in 2009, and is now in the hands of Cinedigm after they merged Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment into Newvideo.

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*At the end of ''Three She-Ra: Princess of Power Stories'', the logo fades in from a distance, slowly zooming up to the camera, and the color is bronze gold. Once it has practically overtaken the entire screen, it fades to the ''She-Ra'' logo zooming up, which stops and "shines" once it has come to a huge size. After that, it fades to the "Princess of Power" logo zooming in and shining, and then it fades to black. This was also seen on ''Three Hugga Bunch Stories'', but only the Golden Book Video portion was shown.

'''Music/Sounds:''' There were 2 majestic synth fanfares used on this logo. The first is a modified stock music track from the KPM music library entitled "Prestige Logo (a)" by Paddy Kingsland, with extra looped synthesizer effects added to the final note to fit the duration of the logo. The second fanfare is similar but an original composition with a different key, sounding somewhat more elaborately-produced. "Prestige Logo (a)" was used up until mid-1986 (most likely due to music rights issues) and often featured the second logo at the end of the video; the second fanfare was used from late-1986 to 1996.

'''Availability:''' Uncommon. Seen on Golden Book Video releases from the era. It's still saved on copies with a print version of the logo which uses a different yet similar font for the words. Some early 1990s releases had the trademark Golden Books Spine which was used on all later releases. One video with this logo on it is the animated HBO special ''Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day''. It can also be seen on some DiC video releases, including earlier releases of ''Madeline'' and the 1989 video ''Little Golden Book Land: The Great Harbor Rescue''. It also appeared on video releases of the rare anthology series ''A Bunch of Munsch''. All videos with this logo are now out of print, but can be sometimes found wherever used videos are sold. This was also oddly found on the Scholastic DVD release of ''Commander Toad in Space''.

'''Editor's Note:''' This logo has some pretty cool animation effects and is rather good for its time, and is sure to be memorable to children growing up with Golden's VHS releases of the 1980s and 1990s.

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'''Nicknames:''' "(Outer) Space", "The Final Frontier", "Space from Hell/of Doom", "A Golden Book in Space", "The Neon Golden Book Video of Space"

'''Logo:''' We start out zooming in space, with an orange planet at the right of the screen and a blue planet at the left. Suddenly a comet appears and flies towards the center of the screen. When it reaches the center it "blows up"--i.e., there is a flash and the screen turns a yellowish tint, and a few yellow streaks emerge from the center and fly toward the screen, slightly moving left as they do so. A large Golden Book Video logo glowing blue zooms-out as the yellowish tint fades. The logo shines and zooms out with a yellow shadow effect.

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see the text "Golden Books" in its familiar color and font sliding in from the left at the same time the text "FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT" below in a plainer font slide in from the opposite direction. When they both meet in the center, the whole logo "flashes" (a la the Cartoon Classics variant of the Walt Disney Home Video Neon Mickey logo).

'''Variant:''' An in-credit version, beneath an in-credit reference to Cinar (or Cookie Jar on later prints) appeared on the 1997-99 TV revival of ''Lassie''.

'''Availability:''' Appears on the Golden Books Family Entertainment VHS of ''Frosty Returns''. It was also seen on Cartoon Network reruns of ''Underdog'' in the late 90s/early 2000s (when the show resurfaced on the Kabillion On Demand service in the late 2000s, the Program Exchange logo was present instead). The variant was seen on the late 1990s revival of ''Lassie'', followed by the Cinar logo (or Cookie Jar logo in recent years).

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'''Logo:''' On a white background we see a {{Font color|red|red}} book turned on its side and rotated at a 45 degree angle. We see the top of a lowercase "g" in Times font peeking over the top of the book), then jumps up from below, picks up the book, opens it, and hops up a few spaces to make way for "Golden Books" written in golden and in the same font from above (the "g" watches as the text is written). "FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT" appears below that as the "g" looks back into the book. The end result is what is the current Golden Books logo.

*On the DVD release of ''Frosty the Snowman'', the logo disappears to make room for "Presents" in its italic Times font.

*On ''The Charlie Horse Music Pizza'', it also had "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" above it in a yellow Funhouse font.

*On some Christmas specials, the "g" is still once again, but wearing a Santa hat.

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