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'''Visuals:''' The screen zooms in to a starfield, until the screen fades in into a zooming galaxy. Then suddenly is lightning strike, revealing dark clouds, as the Merlin Video logo zooms in, which is a steel blue-colored shield with 6 lightning bolts protruding from the top and the bottom, with "Merlin" in a very "Shakespearean" font, and "VIDEO" in a sans-serif font. Then the background turns white. |
'''Visuals:''' The screen zooms in to a starfield, until the screen fades in into a zooming galaxy. Then suddenly is lightning strike, revealing dark clouds, as the Merlin Video logo zooms in, which is a steel blue-colored shield with 6 lightning bolts protruding from the top and the bottom, with "Merlin" in a very "Shakespearean" font, and "VIDEO" in a sans-serif font. Then the background turns white. |
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'''Technique:''' |
'''Technique:''' Traditional animation and chyron effects. |
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'''Audio:''' The sounds of thunder. |
'''Audio:''' The sounds of thunder. |
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'''Availability:''' Seen on VCL and |
'''Availability:''' Seen on VCL and CBS/Fox pre-cert releases in the UK. It was seen on their infamous video nasties such as ''Zombie Creeping Flesh'', ''The Mad Foxes'', and ''Massacre at Central High''. |
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Latest revision as of 05:36, 3 November 2024
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Background
Merlin Video was a UK pre-cert label and a subsidiary of (at the time) West German distributor VCL around the early 80s.
Logo (May 1982-March 1984)
Visuals: The screen zooms in to a starfield, until the screen fades in into a zooming galaxy. Then suddenly is lightning strike, revealing dark clouds, as the Merlin Video logo zooms in, which is a steel blue-colored shield with 6 lightning bolts protruding from the top and the bottom, with "Merlin" in a very "Shakespearean" font, and "VIDEO" in a sans-serif font. Then the background turns white.
Technique: Traditional animation and chyron effects.
Audio: The sounds of thunder.
Availability: Seen on VCL and CBS/Fox pre-cert releases in the UK. It was seen on their infamous video nasties such as Zombie Creeping Flesh, The Mad Foxes, and Massacre at Central High.