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Embassy Home Entertainment
Compiled by James Fabiano, Sean Beard, Matt Williams, Matthew Anscher, and Mark Edward Heuek
Logo captures by V of Doom
Editions by V of Doom and Bob Fish
Video captures courtesy of PalaceRoadshow, MachineryNoise, ThatLogoDude and Osdatabase
1st Logo
(Mid-Late 1982)
Nicknames: "Chyron", "Chyron Text"
Logo: Just a black screen with "EMBASSY HOME ENTERTAINMENT" in EXTREMELY CHEAP computer graphics, colored white. The words all have a "shadow" effect.
FX: None.
Cheesy Factor: The logo is too plain, and the text is very primitive chyron with a "shadow" effect.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen at the beginning of the Raccoons on Ice/The Christmas Raccoons video.
Scare Factor: Low.
2nd Logo
(Late 1982-1987)
Nicknames: "Rotating ☆E" (USA), "Still (Rotating) ☆E" (Worldwide)
Logo: Same as the EMBASSY TELEVISION ID, but Embassy Home Entertainment appears for the text.
Variants:
FX: Again, same as the Television logo. The international version is still.
Music/Sounds: An extended version of the synth instrument jingle heard in the TV version. In worldwide releases, it is silent or contains a jazzy '80s-like synth tune in Germany.
Availability: Rare; can be found on various Nelson video releases as well as Embassy Home Entertainment releases. Could be in worldwide releases.
Scare Factor: Minimal; the dated synthesizer sounds and simple animation may take a few off, but at least the long music is relatively tamer. None for the worldwide variant.
3rd Logo
(1985-1986)
Nicknames: "Neon ☆E Sign", "The Big E in Video", "Flashing ☆E"
Logo: On a black background, a yellow, neon outline version of the Embassy logo zooms out. Flashes then add color to the logo, making the "E" dark blue and the star dark red. "THE BIG" and "IN VIDEO" also flash in, above and below the logo, respectively, and the logo shines over, and the logo zooms out.
FX: All the animation in the logo.
Cheesy Factor: The animation reeks of '80s computer animation and early CGI effects, but at least it's a much better effort than the previous 2 logos!
Music/Sounds: A four-note synthesizer tune, followed by two drumbeats, and then another set of five synth notes.
Availability: The best place to find it is on old PBV tapes in Australia.
Scare Factor: Minimal for the music.
4th Logo
(1986-1988)
Nicknames: "Golden ☆E", "CGI ☆E"
Logo: A three-dimensional, gold version of the starred "E" logo comes in from the left of the screen turned diagonally. As it turns face forward, a similarly colored star outline floats as if coming down an invisible slope and comes through the star-shaped hole in the "E" and becomes its border. Below the "E" appear, also in gold, the words
FX: The moving "E", the words appearing in sync with the music.
Music/Sounds: A fast paced, dramatic synth tune.
Availability: Can be found on a video release of The Producers. Oddly, MGM Home Entertainment preserved this logo when they released Eddie and the Cruisers in 1998.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
Logo captures by V of Doom
Editions by V of Doom and Bob Fish
Video captures courtesy of PalaceRoadshow, MachineryNoise, ThatLogoDude and Osdatabase
1st Logo
(Mid-Late 1982)
Nicknames: "Chyron", "Chyron Text"
Logo: Just a black screen with "EMBASSY HOME ENTERTAINMENT" in EXTREMELY CHEAP computer graphics, colored white. The words all have a "shadow" effect.
FX: None.
Cheesy Factor: The logo is too plain, and the text is very primitive chyron with a "shadow" effect.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen at the beginning of the Raccoons on Ice/The Christmas Raccoons video.
Scare Factor: Low.
2nd Logo
(Late 1982-1987)
Nicknames: "Rotating ☆E" (USA), "Still (Rotating) ☆E" (Worldwide)
Logo: Same as the EMBASSY TELEVISION ID, but Embassy Home Entertainment appears for the text.
Variants:
- There may or may not have have a registered trademark symbol (R) chyroned in.
- A still version of this was used for international videos in 1985. The logo appears to have a lighter blue BG, the words "EMBASSY" are in a much larger font, and "Home Entertainment" is written below in a Helvetica font. This variant was only seen at the end of Australian releases (the next logo below would be at the beginning).
FX: Again, same as the Television logo. The international version is still.
Music/Sounds: An extended version of the synth instrument jingle heard in the TV version. In worldwide releases, it is silent or contains a jazzy '80s-like synth tune in Germany.
Availability: Rare; can be found on various Nelson video releases as well as Embassy Home Entertainment releases. Could be in worldwide releases.
Scare Factor: Minimal; the dated synthesizer sounds and simple animation may take a few off, but at least the long music is relatively tamer. None for the worldwide variant.
3rd Logo
(1985-1986)
Nicknames: "Neon ☆E Sign", "The Big E in Video", "Flashing ☆E"
Logo: On a black background, a yellow, neon outline version of the Embassy logo zooms out. Flashes then add color to the logo, making the "E" dark blue and the star dark red. "THE BIG" and "IN VIDEO" also flash in, above and below the logo, respectively, and the logo shines over, and the logo zooms out.
FX: All the animation in the logo.
Cheesy Factor: The animation reeks of '80s computer animation and early CGI effects, but at least it's a much better effort than the previous 2 logos!
Music/Sounds: A four-note synthesizer tune, followed by two drumbeats, and then another set of five synth notes.
Availability: The best place to find it is on old PBV tapes in Australia.
Scare Factor: Minimal for the music.
4th Logo
(1986-1988)
Nicknames: "Golden ☆E", "CGI ☆E"
Logo: A three-dimensional, gold version of the starred "E" logo comes in from the left of the screen turned diagonally. As it turns face forward, a similarly colored star outline floats as if coming down an invisible slope and comes through the star-shaped hole in the "E" and becomes its border. Below the "E" appear, also in gold, the words
EMBASSY-(in bolder font)
HOME ENTERTAINMENT
(which just appear instead of quickly "fade" like the Embassy Pictures logo)
HOME ENTERTAINMENT
(which just appear instead of quickly "fade" like the Embassy Pictures logo)
FX: The moving "E", the words appearing in sync with the music.
Music/Sounds: A fast paced, dramatic synth tune.
Availability: Can be found on a video release of The Producers. Oddly, MGM Home Entertainment preserved this logo when they released Eddie and the Cruisers in 1998.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
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