1979-1981 Paramount Home Video Logo (Higher Quality)

[chip64c]

Mount Irradiatum

[SpottedleafCCRVMK]

LOOK GUYS A MOUNTAIN

oh god

oh god

LIGHTS

OMG

PARAMOUNT

[MattTheSaiyan]

The flaws this logo has merely add to its charm.

[avickers1992]

@GameShowFan94 Would that info be from Closing Logo's website, I suppose?

[AceTygra82]

I remember this logo on the old video disk for "Urban Cowboy"

[Jigglypufflove33]

Taken from "Race For Your Life,Charlie Brown".

[TheBuilderman123]

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[Copper20]

Found on True Grit.

[moogyboy6]

I wonder how much the "composer" was paid to come up with this logo's "jingle". Nice example of late '70s analog synth tone, but come ON...hit a preset button on that Prophet 5, hold a key, twirl the filter knob a bit, and BAM! Probably brought in enough for a week's supply of blow.

[keosskillz]

LMAO

[Jac2Mac]

I got a flip-top box video version of Paternity and this rare logo is NOT at the start of the tape. What a shame!

[Copper20]

@Jac2Mac

Yep, I think most of 'em, like the 1982 logo only went to tv releases. Some paramount movies might have it, but not many. Other than True Grit (1969) and Death Wish, I've got no clue. Some of my paramount tapes are from 1980-1982 and they don't even have it!

[OPENARMS1981]

This was on Friday the 13th,Urban Cowboy,Bon Voyage Charlie Brown, Charlotte's Web,and Marathon Man.

[WareWolf1962]

It Sounds Like The Rugrats Opening Credits Theme!

[jameshetfield25]

the "paramount television service" part is 0:05-0:09

[stewierulez256]

how the hell is this scary this is one of my favorite logos including the mandate pictures logo

[bubbaali021]

it scared me too

[videolover648]

This logo scares the hell out of children.

[TheAdmiester]

For some reason i always thought this logo was from 1992? lol.

[deathtoall903]

Wow, this one used to scare me when I was little.

[DeanBurrito25]

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this logo is CREEPY!! it also has "shoot me i'm cheesy" written all over it.

first of all, why is the mountain MOVING? second, why is everything so dark?. third, whats up with that pulsing synth music??? this thing is messed up in every way.

[retroman1990]

They should update this with CG, and use it for a horror movie.

[Watcher3223]

It's cheesy because you aren't thinking about how this may be perceived back in the late 1970s. Back then, this may actually have been very impressive!

It's just not very classy, but since when did most things popular in the 1970s had any kind of class?

[DeanBurrito25]

mmm, you raise a very good point. was this made w/ computers? it looks like early crappy computer animation

[Watcher3223]

It could have been made with computers as animation did exist back in the late 1970s but was VERY expensive to do.

However, it may have also been done with more conventional means. Also, this jingle was not made originally for Paramount Home Video. For instance, the words "Home Video" are actually chyroned in place over the words "Paramount Television Service."

In fact, there is the original version of this jingle on YouTube. Just search "Paramount Television Service."

[Marbles471]

Well, the mountain is definitely not computer animation, just a model shot in the dark. But the font and the stars look like they were done with Scanimate. Scanimation was an analogue computer process (yes, there actually was such a thing!) that was used to create hundreds of special effects and logos during the '70s. They of course were bumped aside when digital comptuer animation became big. They may have been more primitive, but they had a unique look that CG has never duplicated.

[Watcher3223]

True enough.

There is footage where people confused computer animation with slit scanning techniques.

And, yeah, I know of analogue computing; an example of one is a mechanical adding machine.

[Watcher3223]

I probably should've said "slide rule" as an example of an analogue computer.

[TheAdmiester]

is it just me, or can you see a letter behind the e on home video? Cheap chyron, if you ask me.

[TheAdmiester]

I have a very high quality version of the music if you want it.

[SweetLemon2008]

That was so cool!

[hotman499]

cool

[MaxRebo120]

Scary!

[segasonic623]

DAMN!

[eyeh8cbs]

I recently got a pre-recorded Beta tape of "Charlotte's Web" dated 1979 (I have that damn movie on almost EVERY format!) and it opens with a still "Paramount Home Video" logo in white on a blue background- I'll put that up soon.

Some of the earlier Paramount and Magnetic Video laserdiscs say "Manufactured by Discovision Associates" on the back cover, rather than Pioneer, but guess this intro isn't on any or very few LDs. I'll have to settle for a VHS I guess.

[Intersonus903]

It depends.

MCA DiscoVision opened in 1978, but the start was VERY rocky, to say the least. In 1979-1980, MCA ended up being partnered with IBM, resulting in DiscoVision Associates, to try and fix the quality problems at the Carson, CA. plant, but to no avail. In late 1981, Pioneer ends up buying the plant and they completely retool the factory and fix the problems. At that point, it would be known as Pioneer Video.

[Intersonus903]

Pioneer got involved with DiscoVision in an attempt to market LD in Japan, which also ended up with a percentage of Pioneer being owned by MCA, resulting in Universal Pioneer. Pioneer would make an LD factory in Japan, which put USA-made DiscoVision LDs to shame.

Since Pioneer had already invested a bit in the format, it was in their best interest to support LD when it was being dropped, so they bought their share back from MCA and assumed control of LaserDisc.

[Intersonus903]

As for Paramount and Magnetic Video, in the middle of 1981, DiscoVision Associates were still making their own discs but dropping the DiscoVision branding (check out BLAMLD . com to see the DiscoVision cover art).

They also ended up distributing discs that were made in Japan.

[Intersonus903]

But all that happened months after Paramount's likely retirement of this ident.

As for where the tags (DiscoVision or Pioneer) would be, they would be on the disc label. The jacket doesn't always provide the information.  If it's made in USA and says DiscoVision, it's DiscoVision. But, if it's made in Japan and says DiscoVision, it's Pioneer.

[Intersonus903]

As for the white on navy blue Paramount Home Video logo, I've got that on my Betamax copy of "Play it again, Sam." The interesting part of this is that my copy had to have been made after 1983 since it has a Beta hi-fi track and Beta hi-fi debuted in 1983.

And, for you putting it up, definitely get the whole thing up. There's another YouTube clip of it up, but it omits the warning.

[Intersonus903]

And, many apologies for the rather LONG reply.

Force of habit.

[WhatsAYak]

Didn't know this was originally the 2nd half of the logo for Paramount's Operation Primetime...after the OPT logo, they ran a truncated and sped-up version of what you see here, just w/the words "Paramount Television Service" @ the bottom instead of "Home Video" (the latter had the appearance of being put there to cover something up, when you take a close look @ it).

[TheAdmiester]

The television service logo was slowed own and chyroned over to make this. The television service logo was older, as it came out in 1977.

[ClassicTVMan81]

For the TV Service variation, it was actually faster to comply as a TV logo, and its music was either the 1977 variation of Jerry Goldsmith's jingle, or the 1979 variation of Lalo Schifrin's jingle.

[JamminLightning]

I love this logo,they should bring it back,for their classic films,and redub it Paramount Classics video

[Urvy1A]

That Paramount logo reminds me of Popeye cartoons...

[ClassicTVFan82]

Not many VHS tapes derived from movies used this logo. Most times it would go straight from the warning screen to whatever Paramount movie logo was in use at the time of the movie's release.

[ChristianWithNES]

Cool logo.

[vfreeck]

Actually, that's incorrect. In th elate 90s, they would tell you tha tthe movie is available on VIDEO and DVD. So the lserdisc bumpers would either just have a regular bumper, a Home Disc bumper, or a DVD bumper.

[Morality124]

Not true! The MCA Home Video logo was used for both laserdiscs and videocasettes.

[vfreeck]

If anything, they would have the Paramount Bumper with the Gulf-Western Byline on the laser Disc from this time that was used on "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown" (1977).

[Intersonus903]

Are you talking about the Paramount Home Video release of "Race for your life, Charlie Brown" on LaserDisc through Pioneer or the RCA VideoDiscs release of the same title on CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc, a.k.a. RCA SelectaVision)?

[vfreeck]

Oh wow, what dolts are we. Why would a "Paramount Home VIDEO" bumper appear on a disc?

[Morality124]

because it's still video

[TPZPaqo]

@vfreeck What's a dolt?

[Morality124]

@vfreeck Been known to happen; one division in charge of all home entertainment (Columbia-TriStar Home Video for ex.)

[GizmoRox94]

this was on the "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown" VHS. Not sure about laserdisk.

[vfreeck]

I'm guessing since Paramount owns PBS Home Entertainment rights, this logo may appear on earlier laserdisc isuances of the Elctric Company, Sesame Street, mabye even Mister Rogers, Captain Kangaroo and Reading Rainbow (first season).

[vfreeck]

This one MAY appear on some Charlie Brown episodes from it's time. They don't really replaster Schultz's property like they do everything else.

[eyeh8cbs]

Did this intro ever appear on any laserdiscs? The oldest Paramount laserdisc I have is Charlotte's Web from 1981 (Discovision pressing) and it just has the copyright warning with the color-changing background.

[Morality124]

hard to say.  Maybe in the laserdisc copies of TV episodes.

[Intersonus903]

It's doubtful we'll ever see this ident on LD.

Paramount releases on LaserDisc from 1978-early 1981 were all under the DiscoVision label and not Paramount Home Video. For those releases, we'd see DiscoVision bumpers and idents instead of Paramount ones. And, this particular Paramount Home Video ident was discontinued by that time.

[Intersonus903]

The 1981 release of "Charlotte's Web" was likely from mid 1981 when DiscoVision Associates stopped with the DiscoVision idents and was about to be divested to Pioneer from MCA and IBM.

And, it is scarce for your title to have been made by DiscoVision Associates as Pioneer would repress every single Paramount Home Video title of that era back then in Japan since the DiscoVision Associates pressings were terrible, especially extended play copies.

[Intersonus903]

That is, if the wording says "Made in USA by DiscoVision Associates" as opposed to "Made in Japan by Universal Pioneer for DiscoVision Associates."