Universal Pictures Home Entertainment: Difference between revisions

===1st Logo (1977)===

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'''Logo:''' We start out with glowing {{color|blue}} light in the center of a black background. The glowing light shrinks until it is the size of a small {{color||gold|yellow}} circle embedded in an {{color||orange|orange}} upside down triangle split vertically in the center. The words "MCA DISCO-VISION" appear on top of the triangle, and while the circle turns the same color as the triangle, the copyright symbol appears on the bottom right area.

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, the words "DISCOVISION" crawl across the entire screen in a {{color|red|r}}{{color|orange|a}}{{color|gold|i}}{{color|green|n}}{{color|blue|b}}{{color|purple|o}}{{color|pink|w}} of colors like a kaleidoscope, and rows of vertical {{color||orange|orange}} lines appear on the screen. The center lines open up in a {{color|red|r}}{{color|orange|a}}{{color|gold|i}}{{color|green|n}}{{color|blue|b}}{{color|purple|o}}{{color|pink|w}} of colors to reveal a white "V", with "DISCO" and "ISION" appearing on the left and right sides of the "V", respectively, appearing on a blackish background with a large {{color||deepskyblue|Bondi blue}} streak in the middle. The DiscoVision logo sparkles for a second and then an abrupt cut to black.

===(1981-1983)===

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'''Logo:''' On a black screen, the words "A PRESENTATION OF" zoom-out in the 1972 MCA font in yellow before dissolving in the center. Following that are streaks of {{color|red|r}}{{color|orange|a}}{{color|gold|i}}{{color|green|n}}{{color|blue|b}}{{color|purple|o}}{{color|pink|w}} color that zoom out to the middle of the screen and flash to form...

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, the MCA logo appears in the center of the screen colored in {{color|blue}}. The words "VIDEOCASSETTE INC", in a white segmented font appear in an arc formation, surrounding the MCA logo through an "iris in" effect.

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'''Logo:''' On a CGI starry background, we see the MCA Home Video logo (in Earth yellow color). This logo has the usual MCA logo (with the "C" and "A" connected) and the words "HOME VIDEO" (in a sleek, smaller font that has the same width as "MCA") in a box that resembles a videotape (but "MCA" overlaps this box on the top, making it "cut open"). The logo zooms in slowly, like the Universal globe at the time. The logo fades out to the starry background for a second, and then an entire fade to black.

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'''Logo:''' The MCA Home Video logo appears in chrome (usually zooming in or sliding into the view). There are different variants:

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see the following text all centered:

* The black and white variant can be found on the 1991 VHS of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. It also appears before the Paramount logo on Starz Encore Westerns' current prints of ''The Virginian'' (1929).

* This makes surprise appearances at the end of ''The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy'' documentary on the 2002 DVD release of ''Back to the Future Part III'' (which was part of the ''Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy'' DVD set from 2002) and the beginning of ''The Making of Jurassic Park'' documentary on the 2000 Collector's Edition DVD of ''Jurassic Park''. Both of these were likely sourced from LaserDisc masters (especially since the latter even has the LaserDisc warning screen intact). It was later intact on the Peacock prints of ''The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth'', and more recently on an airing of ''Foreign Student'' on Screenpix (as well as on The Roku Channel's streaming print). It also shows up at the start of a Netflix print of ''Deep Red'' a recent airing of ''Boss of Lonely Valley'' on Starz Encore Westerns, and a TCM airing of ''Secret of the Blue Moon''.

===2nd Logo (1990-1998)===

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'''Logo:''' On a space background, we see the rotating globe in the 1930's style rotating. Coming from behind is an airplane passing over the globe, as usual, which flies through the screen, as the propeller becomes {{color|red|r}}{{color|orange|a}}{{color|gold|i}}{{color|green|n}}{{color|blue|b}}{{color|purple|o}}{{color|pink|w}}. Suddenly, {{color|red|r}}{{color|orange|a}}{{color|gold|i}}{{color|green|n}}{{color|blue|b}}{{color|purple|o}}{{color|pink|w}} filmstrips are seen falling over the logo before the nebula sky forming from filmstrips. Over the globe, while it changes into its 1990s style and in color, we see these words coming from the left and right sides of the screen (respectively) in their same corporate fonts:

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'''Logo:''' Just a still picture of the 1996 [[Universal Pictures]] logo without the copyright info.

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'''Logo:''' Only the 1997 [[Universal Pictures]] logo with no video indicator whatsoever.  

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'''Logo:''' We see the 1997 [[Universal Pictures]] print logo in black on a grayish white background with no video indicator whatsoever.  

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'''Logo:''' A series of clips from various Universal Studios-owned films plays (some were being recorded off a TV screen). Between clips, the animation of the 1997 Universal Studios logo is seen. The logo then finishes as normal, only the globe rises up and the DVD logo fades in underneath.

'''Availability:''' Can be seen on DVD releases by Universal Studios Home Video from April 28, 1998 to January 2, 2002.

* Some examples include ''The Little Rascals'', ''Major Payne'', ''Babe: Pig In The City'', ''Winning'', ''The Hurricane'', and the Collector's Edition DVDs of the ''Jurassic Park'' trilogy, ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' (Collector's Edition), ''1941'', ''Street Fighter'' (Collector's Edition), and other 1998-2001 DVD releases, with the final release with this logo being the 2002 DVD of ''The Fast and the Furious''.

==Universal Studios Home Video Special Editions==

===(1998-1999)===

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'''Logo:''' A scene from an upcoming release of a film is shown and zooms out onto CGI-animation of a filmstrip. Another film strip appears and the text"SPECIAL" (on the left) and "EDITIONS" (on the right) appear with silver bars appear on the top and bottom of the filmstrip and the letters are spaced out. The 1997 [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] logo appears in the center. A copyright for Universal Studios Home Video, Inc. appears underneath.

===(1998)===

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'''Logo:''' The 1997 [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] logo appears and zooms out slightly onto a yellow background that has a flowing effect on it, similar to the 1995 [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]] logo. The words "WIDESCREEN EDITION" are underneath the Universal Studios logo and in white.