Cinehollywood

Background: Cinehollywood is an Italian video company that distributed videos in Italy. It was also one of the sister labels of the UK video/pre-cert company label Video Programme Distributors only for a short time around November 1981. It then became an Australian video subsidiary of Thorn EMI Video around the mid-80s. The company is also known to still be currently operated to this day in Italy.

1st Logo (1979-November 1981)
Logo: On a background consisting of red/blue diamonds with white and black splotches on them arranged in an uneven pattern, we see the word"cinehollywood" (in a white retro font with the dot on the "i" replaced with a star) zoom in and stop in the middle.

FX/SFX: The zooming.

Music/Sounds: A retro rock theme. This is actually called "Dipnoi" by Blue Phantom.

Availability: Seen on many VHS releases from Italy, the UK and Australia.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (November 1981-Mid 80s)
The background changes, and a white planet which is a chroma-keyed disco ball flies toward the middle of the screen, which makes the "cinehollywood" boxes disappear from largest to smallest. The planet morphs into another 8-pointed star before the logo fades out.

FX/SFX: Everything in the logo is animated, but this is yet another contender for cheesiest logo ever. It appears all the animation was done with Scanimate, an Apple II, or both! The chyron blocks look like glass, and the optical illusions are flashy but cheesy. Many of the computer graphics behind the logo is clearly stolen from the one time television orchestra program performed by Michel Legrand called Astonishing Odyssey which performed various music and themes from classic science-fiction films. Also, the tunnel was stolen from a slit-scan demo animation used by Robert Abel & Associates in 1973 that can be seen here.

Music/Sounds: An excerpt of "Sting of the Serpent" by Ray Davies.

Availability: Seen on many later VHS releases from Italy, the UK and Australia such as their infamous video nasty The Devil Hunter.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd logo (1995-1999)
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4th logo (1999-????)
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5th logo (1999-????)
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