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Background: Video Box Office was a subsidiary of RCA/Columbia Pictures-Hoyts Video.

 

 

1st Logo

(1988-1996)

Nickname: "Clapperboards and Filmstrips"

Logo: On a black background, several filmstrips roll in from all different sides of the screen, all of them in different colors. When they all interlock with each other, a black clapperboard zooms up. It has black and yellow stripes along the clapper section, along with a chrome outline and the stacked chrome text "VIDEO BOX OFFICE", which has a few still pings. The filmstrips continue to roll until they fade out, where the clapper claps. "THE POWER TO ENTERTAIN" then flips in below in white.

Variant: At the beginning of tapes, the clapper claps a 2nd time, causing the text to change to "COMING SOON".

FX/SFX: Everything. Not bad for 1988.

Music/Sounds: The sound of the filmstrips rolling can be heard when they're onscreen, in which a whoosh and a cymbal crash can be heard when the logo zooms in. A synth drone then plays throughout the rest of the logo, with the sound of a clapper, another whoosh for the text flipping in, and a louder drone at the end. Another clapper sound is heard at the beginning.

Availability: On old Aussie tapes of the era. Ebay.com.au would be a safe bet. The company mainly distributed B-Movies as well as HBO fare. One tape that had this was RoboCop 3.

Editor's Note: None.