Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

1st Logo (April 3, 2001-June 14, 2005 [April 2006 in UK & Ireland])
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Logo: Over the usual cloud background, we pan past an extreme close-up of the Torch Lady's legs and feet (covered in the robe, of course.), then dissolve into a pan of the TriStar Pegasus (in the print artwork style except for the body and the legs, which are in the 1993 movie logo style, but in the same color as the Pegasus' face and wings) unfolding its wings. The pan then quickly dissolves into a shot from the center of the Pegasus unfolding its wings, albeit in a close-up way, and then a dissolve to the Torch Lady zooming out from her face. The logo then dissolves to reveal the Torch Lady and Pegasus side-by-side on a cloud background in their print artwork styles, with "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" slightly sliding in with "HOME ENTERTAINMENT", in a smaller font, fading in letter-by-letter and the logo disappears after two light streaks in a straight horizontal fade out completely at the end.

Trivia:
 * This is notable for being the last logo using the "Columbia TriStar" brand after Columbia TriStar Domestic/International Television's rebranding in 2002.
 * On the demo VHS of Kermit's Swamp Years, the logo was followed by a 2nd blue FBI Warning before the Jim Henson Home Entertainment logo. This is most likely due to an editing mistake. However, this was corrected on the release tape print.

Variants:
 * On some 2002 VHS prints of Stuart Little, there is a promo for Little Secrets that features this logo without "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" below.
 * The VHS version of the logo usually cuts to black at the end on U.S. VHS tapes without trailers (and on demo VHS tapes after the Hi-Fi Stereo logo before the FBI Warning); this also applies to VCDs and DVDs where this variant is used. The cut to black version of the first music variant occasionally pops up before the shortened widescreen trailer version of the logo on 2004-2005 tapes, such as The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss video The Cat's Musical Tales. In the United Kingdom, almost every VHS tapes have the logo fading out at the end, but a few of them have the VHS logo that cuts to black; one example video is Bear in the Big Blue House: The Summer of Love. It also appears on the retail VHS of Soul Assassin (containing previews) which cuts directly to the Winchester Films logo before the film.
 * Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE! has the DVD version of this logo with extra black borders on the vertical sides which should have been cropped off.
 * After the trailers on demo VHS videos, a shortened version of the logo is played.
 * The short version of the first music variant is seen on demo tapes after the previews and before the FBI Warnings such as Kermit's Swamp Years.
 * On the first trailer of Kermit's Swamp Years, the logo is identical to the DVD variant except that the saturation matches the VHS variant and with a bobbing effect from the bob de-interlacing filter.
 * On most Columbia TriStar DVDs from 2002-2005, the logo is in warp speed.
 * The print logo has the typical boxes, with "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" above and "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" below; it's all on a white background. This logo appeared on the Comedy TV Preview found on Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes and was never used on general releases. This can also be found on certain promos of TV series by Sony Pictures Television.
 * On VHS releases from 2004-2005, it has a shortened version of this logo with a trailer bump, but with the DVD music. Seen on Spider-Man 2, 13 Going on 30 (non-reprint copies only), White Chicks, Christmas with the Kranks, The Forgotten, Left Behind: The Movie, and Fahrenheit 9/11.
 * Due to a video processing error on the demo VHS of Love and a Bullet after the HiFi Stereo logo, the beginning of the logo up to the horn section is edited out.
 * There is a 2.35:1 scope version of the first music variant seen on the 2001 UK DVD release of Dirty Dancing.
 * On some VCD prints, the 16:9 cropped version of the first music variant is present on the disc.
 * A Brazilian website promo has a variant with a URL.

Trailer Variants: Many times, letters would appear on top of the screen via a "blurring" effect in an orange font. With an announcer (Greg O'Neill), stating the following (on some VHS promos, the bumper text appears over a section of the logo playing in letterbox format, with the words within the top bar):
 * Coming Soon to Theaters
 * Now Playing In Theaters
 * Coming Soon to Home Video
 * Coming Soon to VHS and DVD
 * Coming Soon to DVD
 * Now Available on Home Video
 * Now Available on VHS and DVD
 * Now Available on DVD

Afterward, a trailer with one of the following features would be played. On demo VHS tapes, the letters do not fade in above the trailer version of the logo at the beginning of the tape before the trailers.

International Trailer Variants: On early Australian releases the logo plays normally and in the top right of the screen letters appear spelling "COMING SOON". So far this has been spotted on 2001 Aussie VHS releases of Charlie's Angels, Almost Famous, and Wicked.

Technique: What's mentioned in the description doesn't cover the entire logo. Throughout the animation, the logos are artistically stylized, with mosaic and pixelization effects being used through the logo and a scrolling Matrix-like wall of typography appearing throughout. Also, the designers of the logo, Montgomery/Cobb, retouched the face of the Torch Lady and the wings of the Pegasus to make them look more realistic. The dissolves are done gradually, almost like wipes, and the logo seems to be divided up into five sections during the animation, before coming together as an actual logo at the end.

Music/Sounds: There were two variants:
 * VHS (and early VCDs and DVDs): Composed by Machine Head of Venice, California, a pin drop-like sound is heard, then a wonderful, majestic synthesized fanfare with horns playing throughout the logo.
 * DVD (and later VCDs and VHS): A shorter acoustic guitar tune that rises into a triumphant theme with bells, strings, and a small chorus. The animation plays slightly quicker here.

Music/Sounds Variant:
 * On the VHS trailer version of this logo, the pin drop sound is not heard.
 * A 5.1 synthesized version of the first music variant exists. This audio variant can be heard on certain DVDs like the original UK DVD release of Charlie's Angels.
 * On UK and Australian releases of Kermit's Swamp Years, along with the Jim Henson Home Entertainment logo and the film itself, the audio is high-pitched. The logo itself also appears to have been very slightly sped up.
 * On Boa VS. Python, the film's opening theme plays over the logo.
 * At the end of most 2002-2006 UK videotapes without previews with this logo, a split-second of the BBC Radio pips can be heard loudly accompanied by a single beep in the style of the UK VHS phone dial sound alongside the very beginning of the VHS variant's music.

Availability: Common on VHS and DVD releases from the era. Some of them are still in print.
 * The first VHS to have this logo was Circus, but that tape still used the Columbia TriStar Home Video trailer bumpers. The CTHE trailer bumpers were introduced on Finding Forrester. A few of the releases that include this logo are Underworld, Advertising Rules!, Slackers, Hellboy, the first two Spider-Man films, and the first few releases of the complete seasons of The King of Queens, Seinfeld, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, and All in the Family, among others. Tapes of this logo without the clip-on at the top include Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Fun to Learn and Jay Jay the Jet Plane: New Friends, New Discoveries, along with some prints of The Animal, Snatch, Not Another Teen Movie, Black Hawk Down, A Knight's Tale, Daddy Day Care, and 50 First Dates.
 * The first music variant is rare on DVDs, but has been spotted on the R1 DVD of the Jeffrey Blitz documentary Spellbound and also seen on the UK DVDs of Charlie's Angels (2000), Cromwell (being one of the DVDs to have the 16:9 version with the pin-drop noise unedited, and is intact on the 2018 HMV slipcover reprint), The Princess Bride, and all three volumes of the UK-exclusive The Very Best of the Muppet Show. Also appeared on the Region 4 DVD of Postcards from the Edge (and is intact on the 2017 Region 4 DVD reprint), Van Damme's The Order (2001), the DVD of The Wombles: Orinoco and the Big Black Umbrella and Other Stories, some The Worst Witch DVDs, the region 4 DVD of Blind Date (and it's Region 4 DVD reprint) the region 4 DVD of China Moon, as well as the German DVD of Dark Blue World (aka Tmavomodry Svet) distributed by Helkon Media.
 * The VHS version of the first music variant can be seen on VHS tapes from the era, with The Wombles: Bungo Up A Tree and Other Stories being one of the tapes to have this variant of the logo.
 * The widescreen variant of the first music variant has been spotted on the R4 DVD double feature of Born Free and Living Free and the United Kingdom DVD releases of Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different and Van Damme's The Order.
 * A scope variant of the first music variant was spotted on the 2001 UK DVD release of Dirty Dancing (1987).
 * An excerpt of the VHS variant can be seen on the promo of Matilda on the DVD release of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
 * The first music variant can also be found on early VCDs, such as Snatch and the widescreen variant can be found on some VCDs like the Thai copy of Legends of the Fall. The first music variant doesn't appear on early U.S. DVDs, using the 9th logo instead. In Australia, the 1st music variant logo was used in tandem with the previous logo.
 * The second music variant on VHS can be seen at the end of Jay Jay the Jet Plane VHS releases, Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE!, retail copies of Kermit's Swamp Years, later international VHS releases, such as Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as well as a 2005 Demo VHS of Are We There Yet?.
 * This logo was not seen on the 2001 VHS releases (containing trailers) of The Animal and A Knight's Tale; it just goes straight to their widescreen "Coming Soon to Home Video" bumper. Even though it wasn't seen on the Cloud Ten Pictures DVDs from 2004, it appeared on the 2005 reprint of Judgement.
 * The trailer variants make a surprise appearance after the logo below on the VHS releases of Are We There Yet?, Boogeyman, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, and D.E.B.S.. The second variant of this logo appears (with the 2002 Jim Henson Home Entertainment logo) on TV airings of Kermit's Swamp Years.
 * It also appears at the start of the film on the DVD release of Kermit's Swamp Years; as a result, it appears twice on the same DVD. The one at the start of the film for the PAL version is noticeably higher pitched than the one before the menu. The logo was preserved on the German Blu-Ray release of Kermit's Swamp Years.
 * It also appears on later tapes from TVA, including Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire.
 * This makes an appearance on the 2008 Matilda Deluxe Edition Region 4 DVD (and its mid-2010s reprint), even though the next logo is seen on the back of the cover and disc, this might be due to the fact that the DVD master was prepared and supposed to be released in 2003, but it was aborted.
 * The 2002-2005 DVD variant was intact on the 2018 Australian DVD reprint of America's Sweethearts.
 * The website promo containing the Brazilian URL can be seen in the Brazilian VHS of The 6th Day.
 * This (or the 8th and the 7th logos for that matter) does not appear on Region 2 and 4 DVD releases of Universal Pictures films that they released on DVD; they will either go straight to the movie after the Universal warning screen of the time or use the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment logo of the time.
 * However, VHS releases in UK and Ireland still used this logo until April 2006.
 * Digital prints and TV airings of Soccer Dog: European Cup, Boa VS. Python, Frankenfish and Cruel Intentions 3 retain this at the start.
 * Some of the first DVDs to use the 2002-2005 warp-speed variant were the Australian Region 4 DVD releases of Evolution and The Animal.
 * On UK videotapes, titles with previews as well as the end of titles without previews have the VHS version appear before the warning screen, followed by the 2002 FACT "The Pirates are out to Get You!" PIF, while titles without previews have it afterward.

Legacy It's a popular logo, with many deeming it a worthy successor to the "Split Boxes" and a great finale to the Columbia TriStar name, due to the fanfare, concept and animation.

2nd Logo (2001-2002)
Logo: Same as the 2nd Columbia Tristar Home Video logo, but the background is black and the text is thinner, with "ENTERTAINMENT" replacing "VIDEO"

Variant: On a 2002 promo for DVD releases of TV shows in Sony's library, the background is white and the text is black.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The opening of the promo. For the 2002 variant, none.

Availability: Extremely rare. Only seen on two promos, which are a 2001 promo for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and a 2002 promo for DVD releases of TV shows in Sony's library.

Legacy: This logo is wasted as it appeared on only two promos. It also lasted about a year, which makes it short-lived. It also pays homage to the 2nd Columbia Tristar Home Video logo.