Worldvision Home Video

Credits

Descriptions by
Jason Jones, Sean Beard, and indycar

Captures by
thehugetvfan, V of Doom, Mr.Logo, indycar, and Pygmalion X

Editions by
V of Doom, CNViewer2006, Michael Kenchington and indycar

Video captures courtesy of
czar7474, Eric S., V of Doom and VHSBetaOpeningPreviewLover1991

Background

Worldvision Home Video Inc. was the home media division of television production company and syndicator Worldvision Enterprises that primarily released television programs (Worldvision's own material, along with material from ABC Films that Worldvision controlled the distribution rights to the former, QM Productions, and other content owned by the Taft Entertainment Company), Hanna-Barbera Productions (owned by Taft Broadcasting, Worldvision's owner at the time) material and special-interest releases (such as the golf legend Jack Nicklaus' Golf My Way series). Worldvision was later sold to Spelling Inc. (later Spelling Entertainment Group) and began releasing Spelling Entertainment programs. In 1994, Spelling purchased Republic Pictures and Worldvision Home Video was folded into Republic Pictures Home Video (now Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment).

1st Logo (1983-1995)

Visuals: On a white screen, the Worldvision Enterprises globe with a red "W" zooms-out from the center. As the camera zooms out, the word "WORLDVISION" emerges from the front, and both plaster themselves into place. The text "HOME VIDEO INC." in red slides in from the Worldvision name, as the background fades to black. Afterwards, the radar globe shines and the "World Vision International" print stamp (in very small type here) fades onto the bottom of the screen. The finished logo then cuts or fades to black.

Trivia: This logo would become the basis of the television counterpart's 1988 logo.

Bylines:

• 1983-1987: "A TAFT COMPANY" and the "World Vision International" print stamp replacing the byline a second later.
• 1987-1989: (Bylineless; just the "World Vision International" print stamp appearing in)
• 1989-1994: "A UNIT OF SPELLING ENTERTAINMENT INC." (with the "World Vision International" print stamp below the byline) Trademark symbol appears by the "Radar W" logo in 1991.
• 1994-1995: "A UNIT OF SPELLING ENTERTAINMENT INC., A BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"

Variants:

• A filmed version of this logo also exists.
• On the 1991 release of the 1987 television movie Hands of a Stranger, as soon as the text "HOME VIDEO INC." stops sliding in, it cuts to the finished 1988 television logo (which also cuts out after it finishes). That last second of the globe zooming in on the television version is also seen for a split second.
• One trailer variant featured the phrase "COMING SOON FROM" in a red/black gradient on a white background before the logo begins. the words "COMING SOON" and "FROM" are divided by a black line.

Technique: Computer animation effects.

Audio: It starts with a loud, long "whoosh". After the "whoosh" dies down, an eight-note synthesized tune with "air" in the background plays, which is actually a slowed-down version of Andy Clarke's "Moog Statement 14".

Audio Variant: A quiet (but not silent) version of the music exists.

Availability: Seen on most releases of material from the Hanna-Barbera Productions and Spelling Entertainment libraries.

• Other notable releases were Sam's Son, The Goodbye Bird, Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter and Get Smart…Again!
• Much of the back catalog (mainly the feature films, television films and some mini-series) were reissued by Republic Pictures Home Video in the mid-1990s (much of it in EP mode with Worldvision packaging and even recycling the original tape masters.)
• It is also seen on EP mode reissues of films from AIP Home Video.
• It is also seen on the first releases of Beverly Hills, 90210 and any other Spelling Television show that had the Worldvision Enterprises logo on it.
• The quiet version is only seen after the 1986 Taft Video logo on Australian VHS tapes like Oliver and the Artful Dodger.
• This logo is also intact on the original VHS release of Happily Ever After.
• It is also seen on a Canadian VHS release of The Stand from Malofilm Video, as well as Netflix's print of The Stand episode "The Plague".
• The filmed version of the logo can be found on the 1983 UK pre-cert VHS releases of both the Atom Ant and The Banana Splits Adventure Show: Cassette 2 from Guild Home Video, respectively.
• This logo was also seen at the start of an HBO broadcast of the 1994 film Crackerjack.
• It is also preserved on a few early 1990s GoodTimes Home Video reissued VHS releases that were under license from the company.
• The 1994 U.S. VHS release of Cujo does not have this logo; instead, it uses the 1988 Worldvision Enterprises logo, both at the beginning and end.
• It also makes appearances on the CBS Home Entertainment MOD DVD-R release of The Stepford Children, a UK TalkingPictures TV airing of Breakthrough (Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil, 1979), and Bunnicula the Vampire Rabbit (1982) on the Boomerang streaming service.
• It can also be found on UK VHS releases of Hanna-Barbera shows from both Guild Home Video and The Video Collection in the 1980s, respectively.
• It is also seen on the 1987 UK VHS release of Jack Nicklaus: Golf My Way: Volume 1 from The Video Collection.

2nd Logo (1983-1985)

Visuals: A still version of the 1974 Worldvision Enterprises logo, albeit with the text from the 1st logo.

Variants:

• A variant where the logo zooms in exists.
• Another variant has clips from the company's material being shown in the globe's area.

Technique: A still, computerized graphic usually. 2D animation in the variants.

Audio: None for the standard variant. The second variant has the "whoosh" noise from the first logo.

Availability: Most Worldvision tapes released between 1983 and 1985 carry the "We're Comin' At 'Cha" promo in which this logo is used, located after the end of the program material.