United Home Video

Logo (1984-1989)
oBuEkLYP94s Visuals: After the warning screen finishes, the background starts to slowly zoom towards the screen. A blue, multi-lined pentagon shape with a five-pointed star emerges from a star in the top right and zooms toward the middle left of the screen. The text:

UNITED HOME VIDEO

in a white Microgramma font, emerges from behind the pentagon and moves in a circular path to the right of it. "PRESENTS," also in white, fades in below the text.

Technique: Likely Scanimate.

Audio: A deep synth bass sounder, with a faint whoosh sound when the text flies out.

Availability: Seen on old tapes from the era, such as Crypt of the Living Dead and Dark Star. Later reprints of these tapes plaster this logo with the VCI logo of the period.