Hollywood Video Group

(Mid 1980s?-Early 1990s?)


Logo: On a space background, we see various exploding orange particles happening. A lavender lightning-like appears from the top-left portion, then two magenta gradient rings with a small magenta circle in the middle, which appears to be zooming in off-screen. The space background fades out, as it then leads to flaming footage that goes under the bottom-left corner, in which there are two sphere-likes in both corners. After that, the flames then go thin, in which stays in the middle, diagonally rotating. We then fade back to the space background, where a pink-like planet is seen in the bottom which spins away. We then fade to a moon-like surface with various hills and structures. At the distance, there is a gold glowing shooting star in the top-right portion, in which crashes away from the surface, as it then moves forward, following a curvy road-like surface. The shooting star then zooms towards it, as it leads to a dark place in which there is a large gate, where a person opens it. It then cuts to various live-action clips, by the following:


 * A man holding an auto meter, inside of a shop.
 * An old tape recorder(?).
 * Various shots of a video camera
 * Two persons in a camera monitoring system
 * Various shots of persons, including a person's leg in which later grabs a video equipment(?).
 * Various persons climbing upstairs
 * Two persons running forward with the video camera(?).
 * And finally, two blue spotlights rotating and facing on-screen, in which zooms in.

The bright flashes from the spotlights lead to a perspective animated shooting lasers background, one blue and one gold. The text "HOLLYWOOD " fades in from the distance, and the footage stops. A footage of a movie clip then zooms in, in which later slides out, leading to a black background with said text from before. As it goes on, it then leads to three more movie clip footages. At the last clip, said text is positioned above, and below there's "PRESENTA", in which both zoom towards the screen.

Technique: Motion-controlled animation.

Music/Sounds: The opening sequence to "The Final Countdown" by Europe.

Availability: Very rare. It might appear on their western releases.