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===8th Opening (September 20, 1982-October 31, 1997)===
===8th Opening (September 20, 1982-October 31, 1997)===
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'''Notes:'''  
'''Notes:'''
*The theme heard above, ripped off a cassette tape sent to various radio stations, can be heard [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjOSIUygLA here].
*The theme heard above, ripped off a cassette tape sent to various radio stations, can be heard [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjOSIUygLA here].
*The fifth video, a partial recording of the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival variant, starts at 0:16, where it plasters the 20th Century Fox logo in a screening of ''The Poseidon Adventure'' (1972).
*The fifth video, a partial recording of the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival variant, starts at 0:16, where it plasters the 20th Century Fox logo on a screening of ''The Poseidon Adventure'' (1972).
*The tenth video is a partial recording of the "Screen on the Green" variant.
*The tenth video is a partial recording of the "Screen on the Green" variant.


'''Opening:''' As we start with a man tuning the cable on a TV set for a channel (to HBO) in his apartment as he settles down on the couch with his wife with several food items (i.e. a tub of popcorn, a pizza cut into slices etc.) in front of them. The camera pans backwards and outside the window to show a somewhat busy city intersection with figurines of vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk at twilight. The music starts, and the camera "flies" forward down the street, through several intersections. At one point you can even see a movie theater with "HBO THEATRE" on the marquee. We fly over some buildings before going into the suburbs, with lots of trees. We fly over several houses and a clock tower. Then the camera pans up into the sky, which briefly takes sunset hues before becoming {{color|blue}} and black with a starfield. We go up into space, eventually panning up to reveal the source of the light; a star (positioned near the top center of the screen) that gets brighter and brighter, and eventually explodes in a {{color|orangered|scarlet}} and {{color|blue}} gemstone-shaped flash, leaving behind a shiny chrome model monolith. The monolith moves down and across the screen and rotates clockwise, revealing that it is the HBO logo, then turns around one more time as the camera then zooms in on the side of the "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}". The side of the "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}" disappears in a flash of light, revealing a stream of {{color|red}}, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} and {{color|blue}} rays streaking counterclockwise around a {{color|silver|silver}} axis, and "{{color|violet|'''HBO FEATURE PRESENTATION'''}}", in a heavy, {{color|violet|lavender}} 3D "gaspipe" font and with each word stacked on top of the other (as well as a line under "{{color|violet|'''<u>PRESENTATION</u>'''}}"), appears against an array of {{color|darkviolet|purple}} lines. Some more rays sweep across the words and shine, then the background fades to black with more flashes from the surrounding rays.
'''Opening:''' As we start with a man tuning the cable on a TV set for a channel (to HBO) in his apartment as he settles down on the couch with his wife. The camera pans backwards and outside the window to show a somewhat busy city intersection with figurines of vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk at twilight. The music starts, and the camera "flies" forward down the street, through several intersections. At one point, you can even see a movie theater with "HBO THEATRE" on the marquee. We fly over some buildings before going into the suburbs, with lots of trees. We fly over several houses and a clock tower. Then the camera pans up into the sky, which briefly takes sunset hues before becoming {{color|blue}} and black with a starfield. We go up into space, eventually panning up to reveal the source of the light; a star (positioned near the top center of the screen) that gets brighter and brighter, and eventually explodes in a {{color|orangered|scarlet}} and {{color|blue}} gemstone-shaped flash, leaving behind a shiny chrome model monolith. The monolith moves down and across the screen and rotates clockwise, revealing that it is the HBO logo, then turns around one more time as the camera then zooms in on the side of the "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}". The side of the "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}" disappears in a flash of light, revealing a stream of {{color|red}}, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} and {{color|blue}} rays streaking counterclockwise around a {{color|silver|silver}} axis, and "{{color|violet|'''HBO FEATURE PRESENTATION'''}}", in a heavy, {{color|violet|lavender}} 3D "gaspipe" font and with each word stacked on top of the other (as well as a line under "{{color|violet|'''<u>PRESENTATION</u>'''}}"), appears against an array of {{color|darkviolet|purple}} lines. Some more rays sweep across the words and shine, then the background fades to black with more flashes from the surrounding rays.


'''Trivia:'''
'''Trivia:'''
*This logo was parodied in the music video for "DVNO" by the electro house group Justice.
*In 2008, this logo was parodied in the music video for Justice's "DVNO".
*The HBO short-form interstitial series ''Behind the Scenes'', which aired between features from the early 1980s to about the early 1990s, had one episode titled "A Closer Look: Inside HBO's City" devoted to showing virtually all the work behind this logo and how the ideas of the bumper came up. It should be worth noting that the "HBO" letters were originally designed with a variant of the 1975-1980 logo in mind, with the "O" being not as deep in the "B", before being redesigned to the 1980 logo. The episode can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng here].
*The HBO short-form interstitial series ''Behind the Scenes'', which aired between features from the early 1980s to about the early 1990s, had one episode titled "A Closer Look: Inside HBO's City" devoted to showing virtually all the work behind this logo and how the ideas of the bumper came up. It should be worth noting that the "HBO" letters were originally designed with a variant of the 1975-1980 logo in mind, with the "O" being not as deep in the "B", before being redesigned to the 1980 logo. The episode can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng here].
*The Nostalgia Critic (Doug Walker) took a look at this bumper in his "Rise of the Commercials" video, in which he praised it.
*From 1993 to 2018, HBO sponsored Bryant Park Movie Nights (one block away from HBO's headquarters in New York City), where movies are projected on a massive screen to an audience every summer. The long version starting from the fog was played before each feature. The intro begins with "Bryant Park Summer Film Festival" in an old fashioned red and yellow font. Then the intro continues as normal. Some organizers and moviegoers in the park have been known to dance to the music.
*From 1993 to 2018, HBO sponsored Bryant Park Movie Nights (one block away from HBO's headquarters in New York City), where movies are projected on a massive screen to an audience every summer. The long version starting from the fog was played before each feature. The intro begins with "Bryant Park Summer Film Festival" in an old fashioned red and yellow font. Then the intro continues as normal. Some organizers and moviegoers in the park have been known to dance to the music.
*A similar thing happened in Washington, D.C., where HBO co-sponsored a film festival known as "Screen on the Green" along with Comcast from 2005-2015. Numerous accounts say that people used to get up and wave their arms left and right above their head when the bumper came on.
*A similar thing happened in Washington, D.C., where HBO co-sponsored a film festival known as "Screen on the Green" along with Comcast from 2005-2015. Numerous accounts say that people used to get up and wave their arms left and right above their head when the bumper came on.
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