Guild Home Video/Warning Screen

Warning descriptions and captures by Logophile Video capture by Meanmanmartin2007, pubwebmaster and swedishintros

1st Warning (1980-1983)

Warning: On a blue background, the big yellow word "NOTICE" scrolls up, and then the warning text follows. After that is a line underneath and below that is "GUILD HOME VIDEO LTD".

FX/SFX: The words scrolling

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on tapes in the UK from Guild Home Video. Look for ones that have the Guild logo at the top of the case and a pink/blue bar round the bottom. Appears on Scanners and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Warning (1983-1992) Guild Home Video Warning - 1983

Nickname: "The Musical Warning"

Warning: On a blue background, the white words "It is unlawful to" types itself in, then the following wipes itself in one at a time.

1. Copy, alter or cut all or any part of the material on this tape, the packaging or the labelling without the Copyright Owner's consent.

2. Show the film to any public or private audience whether fee-paying or not.

3. Hire, diffuse, broadcast or trade in the cassettes other than with written permission from Guild Home Video Limited.

4. This video cassette is a genuine first generation copy produced by Guild Home Video Limited.

After a moment "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" appears below. This is smaller than the rest of the text.

Variants: LaserDisc releases replace "tape" and "cassette" with disc. In rare occurrences, a hybrid of the VHS/LaserDisc warnings would be used; wherein points 1 & 2 are about VHS, but 3 & 4 are about LaserDiscs, as well as the small text at the bottom of the warning. An early variation did not contain the "genuine first generation copy" text.

FX/SFX: The first part typing itself in, the numbered parts wiping themselves in.

Music/Sounds: None, but videos with the 1983-1985 Guild Home Video logo has the first part of the theme extended here that plays throughout the warning.

Music/Sounds Variant: On some tapes, if you listen closely you can hear the last part of the music, just before the logo fades out. This is presumably due to sloppy fading in the transition between the "Tick" and "Go Guild" logos.

Availability: Seen on tapes including First Blood and The Wizard. The musical variant is seen on any tapes with the "Tick" Guild Home Video logo, including Cujo, Missing in Action and Private Popsicle. The early variant appeared on a pre-cert release of the original version of The Amityville Horror. The variant with the last part of the music being played faintly can be seen on Action Jackson, which also contains the "hybrid" variant.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Warning (1992-1997) Guild Home Video Warning - 1990s

Warning: On a blue background with a light blue Guild logo is the same text from before. Here though, the first part, "It is unlawful to;" wipes itself above, then below that the parts as seen in the first one (minus the numbering) fade in one at a time, with "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" (smaller than the rest of the text) fading in simultaneously with the last part of the warning.

FX/SFX: The words wiping themself on and fading in.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on later Guild releases, like A River Runs Through It and Basic Instinct.

Editor's Note: None.