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'''Audio:''' An ascending synth-choir note, ending with four synth notes that rise in pitch (sounding like "doo-doo-doo-doo") and a loud hit containing two more notes.
'''Availability:''' The best place to check
* Examples include the original UK issues of ''The Naked Gun'' and ''Back to the Future Part II''.
* One VHS release that has the blue background variation is ''Police Squad: Volume One''.
* This logo may also come after a home video logo from that country (such as [[Argentina Video Home|AVH]] in Argentina, [[Home Video Hellas|HVH]] in Greece, and [[ITI Home Video|ITI]] in Poland).
* The blue background variant with the marquee can be found on some VHS releases from the era, such as the original UK retail releases of ''Saturday Night Fever'' and ''Back to the Future'', among others.
** It can also be found on the Japanese LaserDisc
* Other releases to have this include ''Back to the Future Part III'', ''Ghost'', ''Kindergarten Cop'', ''Top Gun'', ''Twins'', ''The Naked Gun 2 1/2'', ''Coming To America'', ''The Godfather Part III'', ''Beverly Hills Cop II'', ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''The Hunt for Red October'', and ''Stepping Out'', among others.
* It was also spotted at the end on a late 1990s TNT airing of ''American Graffiti'' with the movie's end theme playing over.
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'''Visuals:'''
'''Technique:''' CGI.
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CIC Video was a home video distributor owned by Cinema International Corporation (CIC) and its successor United International Pictures (UIP), and operated in some countries by local operators. Outside of the United States and Canada, it distributed films by Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, UIP's partners. DreamWorks films were added to the company output in 1998 (which were distributed under DreamWorks' home video branch), as the fledgling studio had a worldwide video distribution deal with Universal.
In 1999, CIC Video was dissolved when Universal purchased PolyGram and reorganized its video division under the Universal name. Paramount Home Entertainment became CIC Video's successor after acquiring full ownership and merging it into Paramount's video division. That same year, Columbia TriStar Home Video signed an international video distribution deal with Universal to release movies and TV shows on DVD internationally.
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1st Logo (January 1981-1986) | 2nd Logo (1983) | 3rd Logo (1986-1994, 1999 in Malaysia) | 4th Logo (1986-1992) | 5th Logo (1990's) | 6th Logo (1991-1998) | 7th Logo (1997-1999) |
Visuals: The text "CIC" is seen in a fat abstract font, with the "S"-patterned chain link from the film logo cote-out on the bottom of the "I", and the word "VIDEO" shown below in an Aero Extended font. The logo is entirely white and fades in over a cloudy blue (or purple) background.
Variants:
Technique: Fading effects.
Audio: None.
Availability:
Visuals:
Technique: A mix of camera-controlled cel animation and computer effects.
Audio: The main theme of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, albeit with the pitch raised slightly. A male announcer can also be heard talking over it.
Availability: This logo is only known to have been used at the begin and end of a trailer tape.
Visuals: On a black-blue gradient background with stars dotted around it, the three pieces of the chain (the outer two in light blue and the center one in white) fly from the edges of the screen and form at the bottom center of the screen. A silver bar then flies in from the top of the screen, stopping were the chain is, and the two "C"s draw themselves in, starting from the bottom up to the top. All three letters are made of metal. "VIDEO" then flies in below, stopping under the CIC logo.
Variants:
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: An ascending synth-choir note, ending with four synth notes that rise in pitch (sounding like "doo-doo-doo-doo") and a loud hit containing two more notes.
Availability: The best place to check are places like Europe, Australia, Japan, or South America. VHS releases in Asia and Africa may also have this logo, too.
Visuals:
Technique: CGI.
Audio:
Availability: Seen on rental VHS releases (mainly in the UK) from CIC Video, used in tandem with the third.
Visuals: On a blue/white gradient background, a lavender filmstrip with blinking sprocket holes scrolls across the screen at an angle. In the final 2 cells are the "'CIC" and "VIDEO" portions of the logo, both in dark blue, and they fly off of the filmstrip once they pass by the camera, rising up and settling at the upper center of the screen. The chain, which is shiny and more realistic, flies forth and wipes in the Portuguese words "qualidade de quem é original", before rolling into the "I" of ""CIC".
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The opening variant of the previous logo.
Availability: Seen on Brazilian NTSC-formatted VHS releases from the time. [Examples?]
Visuals: On a black-blue gradient background, cyan lights form up the "CIC" text, with the "C"s formed by wrapping in a spiral 4 times, while the "I" is formed by 4 lights dropping down one by one. Once the text is finished, "VIDEO" flips in via each letter individually flipping in and then a ping brings forth a white chain link, followed by a light blue one fading in, it splitting and arranging itself into the CIC chain link, and finally 2 pings quickly turning it into a proper link. Then one of the following things happens:
Variants:
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: A peaceful synth-orchestra tune.
Audio Variant: On some VHS releases including Star Trek: The Next Generation: Volume 22, the tune is higher in tone.
Availability: Seen on many PAL VHS releases in the UK and Australia.
Visuals: On a blue-purple aurora background, the CIC logo, now colored in light blue and lacking the chain, flips in and zooms towards the camera. The logo also starts off transparent, but glows more opaque and then shines once, revealing the chain engraved onto it. As it straightens out, the chain flashes and 2 beams of light wipe in "WELCOME" below, starting off white before fading to blue. The logo zooms in slightly before the "I" glows white and the entire thing rotates 90 degrees towards the camera, engulfing the screen with white.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A peaceful chord-like tune, followed by a whoosh sound.
Availability: Seen on Paramount, Universal and DreamWorks releases at the time, mainly in both the UK and Australia from 1997 until 1999.