Turner Home Entertainment/Closed Captioned Bumpers

1st ID (1987-1996)

Turner Closed Captioned 1987Turner Home Entertainment Closed Captioning Bumper (1996)

ID: On a blue/black gradient background, we see a large white Closed Captioned logo with a gray drop shadow set in the middle. It then zooms out to the left and then to the lower right of the screen and the following white words (also with gray drop shadow) fade in on the left:

CLOSED CAPTIONED FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED

FX/SFX: The zooming and fading.

Variant: On some tapes, the background is green/black gradient, the Closed Captioned logo zooms out to the lower left, and the text fades in on the right. Sometimes however, its a blue/black gradient with a blue line pattern instead for the background.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Turner Home Entertainment releases from 1987 to 1996, such as Ken Burns' Baseball.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd ID (1996-1997)

Turner Closed Captioned 1994

ID: On a black background we see the secondary Closed Captioned logo (the letters CC inside a box) in white. Below the logo is the following white words:

Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired. FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Turner Home Entertainment releases from 1996 to 1997.

Editor's Note: None.