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Nickname: "The Color Bars" | Nickname: "The Color Bars" | ||
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FX/SFX: The bars spinning and the shining, which are all CGI (and looks rather similar to the CGI in the 4th Embassy Home Entertainment logo). | FX/SFX: The bars spinning and the shining, which are all CGI (and looks rather similar to the CGI in the 4th Embassy Home Entertainment logo). | ||
Music/Sounds: A warm synthesized six note piece, ending with a synth strumming sound when "ENTERTAINMENT" appears | Music/Sounds: A warm synthesized six note piece, ending with a synth strumming sound when "ENTERTAINMENT" appears. This is actually a piece of stock music called "Music, Billboard #2" from Sound Ideas Series 1000 sound library. | ||
Music/Sounds Variants: Sometimes, on some tapes, the music | Music/Sounds Variants: Sometimes, on some tapes, the music fades out early. | ||
Availability: Seen on tapes by this company from the era, such as ''The Terrornauts, The Quest'' (1986)'', Kiss of the Spider Woman, Crimewave, Bombs Away, Keeping Track, God Told Me To, Ghost Fever, Cross Country, Came a Hot Friday, I Was a Teenage Zombie, Slaughterhouse, Rolling Vengeance, Fair Game, Toby McTeague, Hot Rod, The 2nd Best Secret Agent'', among others. You can recognize them by a huge Charter logo at the top of most of their tape covers. It was also seen on the 1985 U.S. re-cut of ''The Plague Dogs'', however, the DVD releases of the film from Trinity Home Entertainment and Phase 4 Films delete this logo. It makes a unexpected | Availability: Seen on tapes by this company from the era, such as ''The Terrornauts, The Quest'' (1986)'', Kiss of the Spider Woman, Crimewave, Bombs Away, Keeping Track, God Told Me To, Ghost Fever, Cross Country, Came a Hot Friday, I Was a Teenage Zombie, Slaughterhouse, Rolling Vengeance, Fair Game, Toby McTeague, Hot Rod, The 2nd Best Secret Agent'', among others. You can recognize them by a huge Charter logo at the top of most of their tape covers (though 1988 reprints of certain tapes only have a small print logo on the bottom of the cover). It was also seen on the 1985 U.S. re-cut of ''The Plague Dogs'', however, the DVD releases of the film from Trinity Home Entertainment and Phase 4 Films delete this logo. It makes a unexpected appearance on a recent TCM broadcast of ''Git!'' (1965), before the 1996 Columbia TriStar Television Distribution logo. More recently, it was spotted on an airing of ''J.C.'' (1972) on the same network, where it appeared before the SPT logo. | ||
Editor's Note: None. | Editor's Note: None. | ||
[[Category:Home Entertainment Logos]] | [[Category:Home Entertainment Logos]] |