- 3-G Home Video
- 3rd Sector Entertainment
- 10th Ave. Video
- 4 Play Video
- Academy Entertainment
- Action International Pictures
- Active Home Video
- AdultX
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- Allied Artists Video
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- Amvest Video
- Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks Video
- Arman Julian Productions
- Astronics Tele-Cine Ltd.
- Axon Video
- Barr Entertainment
- BC Video
- Best Film & Video Corp.
- Big Top Video
- Bingo Video, Inc.
- Blue Underground
- Brentwood Communications
- Bullfrog Films
- BWE Video
- Caballero Home Video
- Caesar's Video
- Cal Vista Video (Some countries)
- Camp Video
- Children's Learning Video
- ChoiceMark Corp.
- Cinema Home Video
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- Classic Family Entertainment
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- Crown Movie Classics
- Diamond Entertainment Corporation
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- Digiview Entertainment
- Disc Plaza Entertainment
- Dollar Entertainment
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- E Realbiz
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- Essex Video
- Evil Angel Video
- Fat Dog Productions
- Films Incorporated
- Film Threat Video
- First Look Home Entertainment
- First Run Video
- Fotomat Video
- Front Row Entertainment, Inc.
- Genesis Home Video
- Golden Dragon Cambodian Video (Some countries)
- Gospel Films Video
- Gourmet Video Collection
- GRB Studios
- Guthy-Renker
- Happy Face Home Video
- Harmony Vision
- Hart Sharp Video
- HIS Video
- Hollywood Video Library
- Hosca Home Video Productions
- International Creative Exchange
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- J2 Communications
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- Jane Fonda Workout
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- Kaiju Productions
- King of Video
- Kodak Video
- Kultur
- L.A. Hero
- LatinAmerica Films & Video
- Lumivision
- MPI Home Video
- MTI Home Video
- Maier Communications, Inc.
- Malibu Video
- Mark V International
- Master Arts Video
- Metropolis DVD
- Minolta Audio-Visual (Some countries)
- Monarch Home Video
- Morgan Creek DVD
- Morris Video
- Muther Video
- National Geographic Video
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- NFL Films Video Library
- North American Releasing
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- NuTech Digital
- Omega Entertainment
- Pacific Arts
- Palisades Home Video
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- Paragon Video Productions
- Parents Approved Video
- Passion Productions
- Passport International Productions, Inc.
- PC Treasures
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- Pentrex
- Pioneer Special Interests
- Planet Video
- Playboy Home Video
- Player Home Entertainment
- PorchLight Home Entertainment
- Premiere Video
- Prism Entertainment
- Producers' Video Inc.
- Production Partners Inc.
- Promark Television
- Quality Video, Inc.
- Quality X Video
- Questar Home Video
- RCA SelectaVision
- RNJ Corporation
- Raedon Home Video
- Rainbow Home Video
- Reader's Digest Home Entertainment (Some countries)
- Right Stuf Inc.
- Scotia International
- Severin Films
- Shapiro Glickenhaus Home Video (Some countries)
- Shokus Video
- SISU Home Entertainment
- Slingshot Entertainment
- Soft Touch Video
- Something Weird Video
- SouthGate Entertainment
- Standard Video
- Starling Films
- Sterling Entertainment Group
- Sunset Digital Studios
- Super Video Inc.
- TGA Video
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- Tidewater Productions
- Transit Gloria Mundi
- Travelview International
- Troma Team Video
- Twin Tower Entertainment
- United Learning
- UVI Video Productions
- Valentine Video
- Valley of the Sun Video
- VCI Entertainment
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- Ventura Distribution
- Victor King Video
- VIDCO - The Video Company
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- Video City Productions
- Video Gems
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- VideoTours
- View Video
- Vina Distributor
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* Thorn EMI distributed releases from [[Thames Video]], [[Orion Pictures]], [[Hemdale Film Corporation]], [[Regency Enterprises]], The Saul Zaentz Company, and [[Carolco Pictures]], in addition to films from EMI themselves. |
* Thorn EMI distributed releases from [[Thames Video]], [[Orion Pictures]], [[Hemdale Film Corporation]], [[Regency Enterprises]], [[Producers Sales Organization]], [[Dino de Laurentiis Company]], The Saul Zaentz Company, and [[Carolco Pictures]], in addition to films from EMI themselves. |
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* Several releases that had this logo were ''Xtro'', ''The Evil Dead'', ''The Terminator'', ''Corrupt'' (also known as Copkiller) and ''First Blood''; one of the first was ''The Burning''. |
* Several releases that had this logo were ''Xtro'', ''The Evil Dead'', ''The Terminator'', ''Corrupt'' (also known as Copkiller) and ''First Blood''; one of the first was ''The Burning''. |
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* TV shows with this logo include ''Ready, Steady, Go!: Volume One'', the first few collections of ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids'', and ''Danger Mouse''. |
* TV shows with this logo include ''Ready, Steady, Go!: Volume One'', the first few collections of ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids'', and ''Danger Mouse''. |
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Background
Thorn EMI Video was the home video division of Thorn EMI, a multimedia and electronics company, and was originally known as EMI Videogram until 1981. Its North American division was formed that same year as part of a larger home video and television enterprise known as Thorn EMI Video Programming Enterprises. In 1984, the parent company formed a joint venture with HBO that was known as Thorn EMI/HBO Video, later known as HBO/Cannon Video (when Cannon Films bought Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment and Thorn EMI's other entertainment holdings) and the U.S. unit was absorbed into the new partnership. Thorn EMI Video remained active outside the U.S. until 1986, when it was absorbed into Cannon.
1st Logo (November 15, 1981-March 1982)
Visuals: Over a blue (or dark blue) background is the 1979 Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment logo, only it is in black and white and there is now a black box under "THORN EMI" that says "VIDEO".
Technique: A still graphic.
Audio: None.
Availability: It was most likely intended as a placeholder logo.
- It can be found on the earliest Thorn EMI Video releases, including their first fourteen releases (The Tubes Video, April Wine Live in London, I Am a Dancer, Can't Stop the Music, Times Square, Death on the Nile, The Cruel Sea, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Best of Benny Hill, Scars of Dracula, Sophia Loren: Her Own Story, S.O.S. Titanic, The Royal Wedding, and Queen: Greatest Flix), Heartland, and The Mirror Crack'd.
- Prior to the debut of the second logo, Thorn EMI's releases in the United Kingdom usually didn't use any logo at all (even under their prior name of EMI Videogram) and just started with the opening credits or scenes of the film.
2nd Logo (June 1, 1982-May 15, 1985 [USA]/1986 [international])
Visuals: Over a black background, a blue circle of light zooms up into the screen, spins around, and turns rainbow, then splits into two light circles which spin and shrink into a shape that looks like an upside down "T" with pointed ends, most likely representing a thorn. A white box with a blue aura is drawn around the shape, and it backs away. As this happens, a white box with the words "THORN EMI" appears under that box, which has since turned blue, and when that backs away a white box surrounds that, the bottom of which contains the word "VIDEO".
Technique: Oxberry effects designed by Laurie Calvert of Filmfex in London.
Audio: A light, synthesized tune that ends in the beating of a drum and a synth fade-out.
Availability:
- Thorn EMI distributed releases from Thames Video, Orion Pictures, Hemdale Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Producers Sales Organization, Dino de Laurentiis Company, The Saul Zaentz Company, and Carolco Pictures, in addition to films from EMI themselves.
- Several releases that had this logo were Xtro, The Evil Dead, The Terminator, Corrupt (also known as Copkiller) and First Blood; one of the first was The Burning.
- TV shows with this logo include Ready, Steady, Go!: Volume One, the first few collections of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and Danger Mouse.
- This logo is also found on various pre-cert releases in the United Kingdom, including First Blood, A Passage to India, certain copies of The Wicker Man and the later pre-cert release of Watership Down (the very first release, from 1982, has no logo at all).
- At least in the United Kingdom, this began being used in early 1983 and continued to be used until Cannon purchased the Thorn EMI library.
- This logo also appears on some, Japanese releases on LD, Beta and VHS that were distributed by Tohokushinsha Home Video of the time, such as The Osterman Weekend and Dune, with the final release to contain it (at least on print) being The Hills Have Eyes Part 2.
- This logo also appears on the 1983 UK pre-cert VHS releases of Paddington's 9th Anywhen TV Show and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and the 1984 UK pre-cert VHS release of Roland Rat Superstar in Rat on the Road: Volume 1, respectively, as well as old French VHS releases of Inspector Gadget.
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