Paramount Home Entertainment Warning Screen

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1st Warning
(1976-1979)

Paramount Home Video Warning (1976-1979)

Warning: We see on a dark blue background the warning text in white. The 1976 Paramount Home Video logo precedes this.

FX: The fade-in transformation from the logo to the Warning.

Music: None.

Availability: Seen on Betamax releases and a few VHS releases with the 1976 Paramount Home Video logo.

Scare Factor: None

2nd Warning
(1979-1989)
Paramount Warning (1982)Paramount Home Video Warning (1984-1988)


Warning: On a background of changing colors (Green, Yellow, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, and green again) appears the warning text in white in large lettering.

Early Variant: There is an early variation where the text is smaller and in a different font (notably Bauhaus 93), and in yellow instead of white. This was used until 1984.

FX: The changing colors.

Music: None.

Availability: Seen on all releases from this era.

Scare Factor: Low.

3rd Warning
(1987-2005)

Paramount Home Video Warning (1988-1989)Paramount Home Video Warning (1989-1995)Paramount Home Video Warning (1995-2002, 2003-2006)

Warning: Transforming from the zooming-in of "FEATURE PRESENTATION" from the then-current Paramount Home Video logo of the era, we see a wallpaper with the Paramount logo all over it. We see the standard Warning in a different font than the previous ones; in 1995, the font became somewhat more modern looking.

Color Backgrounds:
  • 1987-1989: Bright purple/white gradient.
  • 1989-2002: Dark blue gradient.

Bylines:
  • 1987-1989: A Gulf+Western Company
  • 1989-1995: A Paramount Communications Company
  • 1995-2005: A Viacom Company (in the Viacom Wigga-Wigga font)

FX: The transformation from the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" zoom-in to the Warning.

Music: None.

Availability: Seen on all videos from this period.

Scare Factor: None, unless you want to count the transformation from the "Feature Presentation" to the Warning.

4th Warning
(2002-)

Warning: On a dark blue background, we see the Warning text, in English on the first screen, and Espanol on the second screen.

FX: None, unless you want to count the tranformation from English to Spanish.

Music: None.

Availability: Current on all Paramount releases from 2002-present and DreamWorks releases from 2005-present.

Scare Factor: None.


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