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Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment was established in November 1979 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS, Beta, LaserDisc, and Super 8mm, with Warner Bros. titles being released by them on the latter format. It was later renamed as "RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video" (or "RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video" for international distribution, "RCA/Columbia Pictures/Hoyts Video" (in conjunction with Hoyts) in Australia and "Gaumont Columbia RCA Video" (in conjunction with Gaumont) in France) in 1981 as a joint venture with RCA.
All are written in a white Cooper Black font.
Variants:
Technique: Motion-controlled cel animation by Robert Abel & Associates, with the Torch Lady and backdrop being a matte painting, and the text chyroned over the Columbia Pictures name.
Audio: The 1976 Columbia Pictures theme by Suzanne Ciani, though some releases have it distorted.
Availability:
Visuals: It's the standard 1981 Columbia Pictures logo with no video indicator.
Technique: Motion-controlled cel animation, with the Torch Lady and backdrop being a matte painting.
Audio: None.
Availability: It's one of the first de-facto video logos, alongside the 20th Century-Fox Video logo. It was seen on several CPHE and early RCA/Columbia releases from the era, like The Black Bird and Hard Times (themselves Columbia films), Love and Anarchy, The French Detective and One Sings, the Other Doesn't. Columbia releases by itself, as well as the VHS of Diana Ross in Concert skipped the logo and went straight to the Columbia logo used by the film.
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