Concorde Home Entertainment

Background

Concorde Filmverleih is a theatrical and home video distributor in Germany. It was formed in 1991 when TeleMuchen Group acquired local assets of Vestron Video and created Concorde Video, renamed to Concorde Home Entertainment in 1999. In 2019, the company went absorbed into Leonine Distribution.

1st Logo (1996-2005)

Logo: A bright flickering splash occurs, which lights on the panning filmstrip. Each frame contains video footages of some movies. The strip becomes flat and flashes again, and then the letters rise from it, forming the name.

Variants:

During its early years, the logo was bylineless.
This was adapted from the Concorde-Castle Rock/Turner logo used in its first two years. In that variant, the shining flash transforms into words that slide and form the name.
There is also a short version used on trailers, that starts with the flash.

FX/SFX: The splashes and filmstrip moving, the letters rising.

Music/Sounds: An orchestral composition with flashing sounds. For the short version, the music is abriged.

Availability: Only in Germany, seen on VHS releases and older DVDs. Appeared on White Worm.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2005-2019)

Logo: We move around giant blue, metallic letters, which form CONCORDE. The camera pans around and flies through "R" letter, then the logo comes into full view, with certain underline.

Variants:

The home entertainment logo contains only last seconds of animation.
There is also a still variant.
Another variant has "Filmverleih" replaced with "Classics".

FX/SFX: The whole animation, showing full capacity of the Blu-ray disc.

Music/Sounds:

The Home Entertainment variant uses dark ambient sounds.
The long variant is silent or has an uptlifting orchestral fanfare composed by Marcel Barsotti.

Availability: Seen on local DVDs, UMDs and Blu-rays, for example The Hurt Locker or ...And God Created Created Woman. This was preceded by TeleMuchen logo. From 2019 onward, newer releases use the Leonine logo.

Editor's Note: None.