Vision Video Ltd.

Background
Vision Video Ltd. was a British home video distributor and former production company that was founded in the early 1980s as Virgin Video. In July 1989 the company was acquired by Jonathan D. Krane's Management Company Entertainment Group from the Virgin Group and renamed it to Virgin Vision. However MCEG was filed in chapter 11 bankruptcy as they sold 85% of the company to GE Capital with the remaining 15% stake acquired by the Virgin Group but then it later sold the remaining 15% to GE Capital making it full ownership of Virgin Vision. The company scaled down it's operations to video distribution only in the UK and GE Capital later renamed the company to Vision Video Ltd. However in early 1991, GE Capital announced that Vision Video Ltd. (at that time Virgin Vision) was up for sale and in January 1993 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment had acquired the company with it's operations merged with it's home entertainment arm PolyGram Video making it a label. But in 1998 Polygram was sold to Seagram & Sons (the former owner of Universal Pictures which is now part of NBCUniversal). Currently Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer owns the majority of Vision Video's library through the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library which had brought back in 1999.

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(1994-2003)


Logo: From black, in a story exture the camera pans away from an orange background to reveal it is actually an orange scribble reminiscent of a tornado on a dark blue background. Then two white lighting bolts strike as the middle black pillar emerge and rises from the middle of the scribble with electric shocks around it. Then the pillar shoots lightning and two dinagical black pillars then emerges from the bolts rising from the left and right respectively as the camera continues to pan away from the orange scribble. When the camera is nearly at bird's eye view, the three pillars get struck by a flash of lightning as the text "VISION VIDEO LTD" fades in below the bottom of the screen and the pillars stopped rising and now gained shadows to form the initials 'VVL'.

FX/SFX: The pillars rising, the electricity, and the background. All CGI effects.

Music/Sounds: A dramatic fanfare plays while the black pillars rise from the orange scribble, ending in a final chord when the lightning strikes. After that, an eerie synth piece is heard in the background.

Availability: Extinct in the UK - Can be seen on all VHS releases from VVL. For its final few years in service, this logo would follow after the Universal logo - this logo can be found on Universal's budget VHS releases.

Editor's Note: The dramatic fanfare and hit can get to some people - but otherwise it's harmless.