Summer 1980 HBO Intro

[MartinVillafuerte85]

At the beginning of the video there's the opening logo of Paramount Pictures. What Paramount Pictures release is?

[salchli]

@MartinVillafuerte85 Cheech & Chong's "Up in Smoke."

[cameron20101000]

i like this R bumper better than late 1980 R bumper this must be from betamax tape.

[salchli]

@cameron20101000 Not Betamax, just a very old VHS. Still, it's cool it still works 30 years later!

[beatleman69]

It nothing today so see an R rated movie on a premium movie channel today during the day hours. Even the channel FX lets some crude scenes and language stay in. I remember back in the late 70s and into the 80s they would either censor or overdub a nicer word instead of leaving in the profanity, today, its not as common.

[Jac2Mac]

@beatleman69 But back in the early 80's HBO and Cinemax as well as Showtime would never show R rated movies during the day hours at all and instead only played lame G or PG rated films during the day hours.

[beatleman69]

@Jac2Mac You're right, I remember network television ie: NBC, ABC and CBS would take a movie that had been shown in the theater and overdub any hard or excessive profanity, I don't think it holds true today. Like I said, even FX leaves a lot of the profanity and some adult situatiions in rather than edit them out. I saw "Me, Myself & Irene" with Jim Carrey on FX and they did little to ease up on the profanity. Even Family Guy, which I like, FOX lets most of the profanity in.

[NomadRip]

I think I saw The Rose on HBO back when this was playing live. Ugh! I'm going to go buy a corvette now...

[pugsitterjen]

Is this a Classic Video

[otheozzy]

i was born in the summer of '80, so this is real cool to see. thanks... fuck i'm old

[pksgigi]

Janis Joplin was the inspiration for this movie.

[argentinarama]

The Rose? Looks more like Ronald McDonald on heroin.

[OPENARMS1981]

The R rated bumpers on HBO gave me nightmares.The guy's voice creeped me out.

[Cinemax1980]

Me As well!

[MrJsmoove1984]

me too

[jakestooge34]

I saw intros of SuperChannel and they contained the exact same animations from the HBO and Spotlight intros.

[CrimsonFury006]

It's amazing that in those days, an R rating was a death sentence for a movie. Nowadays it's the industry standard. I hope the MPAA does adopt the Soft R and Hard R ratings and retire the NC-17 rating.

[anubis679]

WOW!! Rated R movies only at night.

Boy how the times have changed.

[shadowseeker629]

what movie is this

[rays130226]

what year HBO was debut?

[salchli]

1972.

[dgendvil]

I thought that was 1975.

[salchli]

Nope, 1972. They were airing 10th anniversary ads in 1982.