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'''Streamline Pictures''' was formed in 1988 by Carl Macek and Jerry Beck to produce and distribute English-dubbed Japanese animation. However, Streamline stopped producing new anime releases but continued to distribute its releases for a while. During the mid-'90s, its releases were variously distributed by [[Best Film & Video Corp.]], [[Family Home Entertainment]], and [[Orion Home Video]]. In 2002, this company went out of business, and all its film and television material are now owned by different anime companies, such as [[Manga Entertainment|Manga]], [[Viz Media|Viz]], and [[Funimation]]. | '''Streamline Pictures''' was formed in 1988 by Carl Macek and Jerry Beck to produce and distribute English-dubbed Japanese animation. However, Streamline stopped producing new anime releases but continued to distribute its releases for a while. During the mid-'90s, its releases were variously distributed by [[Best Film & Video Corp.]], [[Family Home Entertainment]], and [[Orion Home Video]]. In 2002, this company went out of business, and all its film and television material are now owned by different anime companies, such as [[Manga Entertainment|Manga]], [[Viz Media|Viz]], and [[Funimation]]. | ||
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'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' On the trailer for ''Robot Carnival'', a soothing synth piece is heard, which is actually the opening theme to the short ''Cloud'', itself featured on the former. | '''Music/Sounds Variant:''' On the trailer for ''Robot Carnival'', a soothing synth piece is heard, which is actually the opening theme to the short ''Cloud'', itself featured on the former. | ||
'''Availability:''' Until recently, this was hard to find outside of VHS and Laserdisc releases put out by [[Best Film & Video Corp.|Best Film & Video]], [[Lumivision]], and later [[Orion Home Video]], with the Best Film & Video release of ''Robot Carnival'' being an example. Can also be seen on the [[Family Home Entertainment|F.H.E.]] release and [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] DVD of ''Speed Racer: The Movie'' (Note: Not to be confused with the 2008 movie) and a few '90s cassettes of ''Robotech'' from Streamline. 35mm prints of films they distributed in the late '80s and early '90s, such as the aforementioned ''Speed Racer: The Movie'' and 1986's ''Fist of the North Star'', also have this. Though it stopped appearing on new video releases around December 1993, this still appeared | '''Availability:''' Until recently, this was hard to find outside of VHS and Laserdisc releases put out by [[Best Film & Video Corp.|Best Film & Video]], [[Lumivision]], and later [[Orion Home Video]], with the Best Film & Video release of ''Robot Carnival'' being an example. Can also be seen on the [[Family Home Entertainment|F.H.E.]] release and [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] DVD of ''Speed Racer: The Movie'' (Note: Not to be confused with the 2008 movie) and a few '90s cassettes of ''Robotech'' from Streamline. 35mm prints of films they distributed in the late '80s and early '90s, such as the aforementioned ''Speed Racer: The Movie'' and 1986's ''Fist of the North Star'', also have this. Though it stopped appearing on new video releases around December 1993, this still appeared on theatrical releases of Streamline-dubbed product, with the last of such being ''Space Adventure Cobra'', which wouldn't be available on videocassette until [[Urban Vision Entertainment]] picked it and some other Streamline properties up a few years later. The Orion release of ''Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia'' retains this, as do Orion's reissues of the individual episodes of ''3x3 Eyes'' (where the 3rd logo precedes this). It also appears on Streamline's releases of ''Colonel Bleep'' and ''Nadia'', among others. On ''Zillion'', it appears at the end of the videogram. The early variant makes a reappearance in HD on the Blu-ray of ''Robot Carnival'', both on the US trailer and the reconstructed US theatrical and Laserdisc cuts. | ||
Despite the first English-language dub being produced by them, this logo does not appear in all 90s to early 00s prints of ''My Neighbor Totoro''. | Despite the first English-language dub being produced by them, this logo does not appear in all 90s to early 00s prints of ''My Neighbor Totoro''. | ||