3-2-1 Contact Home Video

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum

Background

3-2-1 Contact Home Video was another home video label owned by Sesame Workshop (then known as Children's Television Workshop), operated in 1989 as a joint venture with Golden Book Video.

Logo (October 16, 1989)

Visuals: It's an abridged version of the 1987-1988 3-2-1 Contact opening sequence, but the logo flips and zooms out to reveal the glowing words "H O M E V I D E O" with a glow that dims over the logo.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: An edited version of the last part of the 1987-1988 3-2-1 Contact theme song, but with an additional laser zap as the logo zooms out.

Availability: Seen on old 3-2-1 Contact videos from the period distributed by Golden Book Video such as 3-2-1 Contact Greatest Hits: Animal Tracks, Flying!, and the Bloodhound Gang tapes The Case of Mr. Quickfingers and The Case of the Girl From Outer Space.