Syme Home Video (Warning Screen)

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum

Screen (Early-Mid 1980s)

Visuals: On a blue background is the yellow text "WARNING" with a line below, and below it is the following text:

THIS VIDEO TAPE AND WORKS
EMBODIED IN IT ARE PROTECTED
BY COPYRIGHT LAW. THESE LAWS
PROVIDE CRIMINAL PENALTIES
AND CIVIL REMEDIES AGAINST
THE UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION,
EXHIBITION OR TRANSMISSION OF
VIDEO TAPES AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC
FILMS.

It then fades to another screen with the following text:

Licensed for private home
exhibition only. Any public
performance, copying,
or other use strictly
prohibited.
All other rights reserved.

Variant: On rental tapes, all of the above is preceded by the following text:

FOR RENTAL
ONLY
NOT FOR
SALE

Technique: Digital graphics with cross-dissolve transitions.

Audio: None.

Availability: Seen on all Syme Home Video releases in Australia, as well as early (pre-Roadshow distribution) Aussie releases from Walt Disney Home Video, such as Night Crossing.

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