Cinema Group Home Video

Background

Cinema Group Home Video is a renaming of the former Continental Video formed after Andre Blay and Elliott Kastner, the former of which, founded Magnetic Video Corporation and Blay Video took over the studio in 1987. It was later renamed to Palisades Home Video in 1988.

1st Logo (1987)

Logo: Almost the same as the movie logo, except the text instead reads on the square:

CINEMA
GROUP
HOME
VIDEO

Technique: The logo fading in.

Music/Sounds: A descending synth clone, then some synth notes, then low synth notes.

Availability: Very rare. Seen on Starship and The Stick-Up, among others.

2nd Logo (December 22, 1987-1988)

Logo: We dissolve from the FBI warning screen of the time to a very slow zooming space background, where a yellow comet flies in from the right of the screen and after reaching the top left curves towards the center and disappears. Then three yellow circles give way to the logo from before outline by outline. when the logo is completely formed it becomes 3D.

Technique: The comet and the animation of the squares.

Music/Sounds: A deep 5 note synth theme with a whoosh sound taking place after the first note followed by 4 lighter notes.

Availability: Rare. Seen on Zombie High, The War Boy, and the Jackie Chan movie Police Story (released as Jackie Chan's Police Force, probably to avoid confusion with the 1973 TV series also called Police Story).

◄	Continental Video

Cinema Group Home Video

Palisades Home Video

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