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Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly "Paramount Home Media Distribution", "Paramount Home Video", and "Paramount Video") is Paramount Pictures' home media division and was formed in 1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films and shows owned by Paramount and shows from sister companies CBS Entertainment Group (under the label CBS Home Entertainment; the pre-2006 Paramount Television library is released under this label as well) and Paramount Media Networks (under individual labels such as MTV Home Video and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from several independent studios.

The company was the final major Hollywood studio to release material on the Betamax format, with releases to 1993 in the wide market and up to 1996 with manufactured-on-demand titles (the last being Mission: Impossible). They formerly released DreamWorks Animation material through DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment until 2014, when the latter acquired distribution rights to their library and transferred the rights to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the Republic Pictures library and select Paramount films were licensed to Olive Films and Kino Lorber. From 2013-2016, the company licensed the home media rights to most of the Paramount Pictures (with some exceptions) library to Warner Home Video. Paramount continued to release licensed material and material from sister companies. In May 2019, Paramount Home Media Distribution was renamed back to Paramount Home Entertainment.

Paramount Home Video

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1st Logo (September 17, 1979-October 2, 1980)	2nd Logo (October 3, 1980-January 26, 1981)	3rd Logo (October 5, 1983-March 12, 1987)	4th Logo (April 20, 1987-April 24, 2007, mid-2010s in Asian VCDs, March 2014 in Indonesia)	5th Logo (November 15, 1993)

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1st Logo (November 12, 1996)	2nd Logo (Early 1998-1999)	3rd Logo (May 7, 2002-December 27, 2008)

Paramount Home Video

1st Logo (September 17, 1979-October 2, 1980)

Visuals: Over a navy blue background is "Paramount" in the famous script, and "HOME VIDEO" below in the Eurostile Bold Extended font in between two lines, one above and one below. To the right of that is the 1968 Paramount print logo to the right, complete with the Gulf+Western byline.

Variant: A grayscaled variant exists on releases of some black-and-white films, such as Sunset Boulevard and Paper Moon.

Technique: A still graphic.

Audio: None, though on some tapes, audio from other Paramount films, such as Paper Moon, can be faintly heard in the background.

Availability: Because VHS and Beta were in their infancies at the time, releases were in lower quantities.

This logo is preserved primarily on Betamax releases.
- This logo can also be found on a few VHS releases from 1979 and 1980 including the first two Godfather films, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Heaven Can Wait, True Grit, Goin' South, Play It Again Sam, The Bad News Bears (1976 version), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Sunset Boulevard, Prophecy and Catch 22.
Among the last releases to use this logo were five volumes of Star Trek episodes as part of the "Television Classics" series on VHS and Betamax in summer 1980.
- Other final releases with this logo were tapes of Escape from Alcatraz, North Dallas Forty, Mandingo, Malicious, Prophecy, Players, and Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman.
This is also intact on a late 1983 pressing of The Odd Couple and a 1984 printing of Harold and Maude (usually, releases of movies printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo).

2nd Logo (October 3, 1980-January 26, 1981)

Visuals: On a blue background, the camera zooms out on a silhouette of a mountain. After the screen zooms out to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (they look like circles or lens flares) appear, as well as the Paramount script (in a school bus yellow color, but closer to the pre-1975 logos). A saffron-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "HOME VIDEO" (set in the same font as the previous logo) fades in soon after, tacked onto the saffron-colored trail. As that happens, the blue background gets extremely dark (resembling federal blue). The end result is similar to the pre-1967 print logo.

Trivia: The second half of the logo was once used as the 1977 Paramount Television Service logo. "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" was featured at the bottom, which explains the chyron for "HOME VIDEO".

Variant: On Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!, the logo cuts to the last half of the film's Paramount logo.

Technique: Backlit animation by Sullivan & Marks, with the "HOME VIDEO" text chyroned over the original "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" text.

Audio: A pounding backbeat as the mountain zooms out, then a synth chord mixed with a brief explosion sound and synthesized "sizzling".

Availability: The logo's appearances are few and far between; it is seen on VHS/Beta releases of the time, and a decent amount of movies have this.

Among the releases are Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!), Coast to Coast, Death Wish (reissue), Escape from Alcatraz (reissue), Breaking Glass, Friday the 13th, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Airplane!, Charlotte's Web (reissue), Little Darlings, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown! (reissue), Barbarella (reissue), Starting Over, American Gigolo, Urban Cowboy and Shogun, respectively.
Some, if any post-1981 prints also keep this logo intact.
It is also seen on certain Hi-Fi re-releases of Paramount's early releases (such as Downhill Racer and Death Wish) from 1984, and the original Hi-Fi VHS release of True Grit (1969 version).
It is also seen on a 2019 trailer of Bumblebee (2018) advertising a "VHS release" of said film.

3rd Logo (October 5, 1983-March 12, 1987)

The mountain
The logo
The mountain in B&W
The logo in B&W
A rare look at the logo in its static form.
In April 1998, the logo appeared on Sci-Fi, and was slowed down, then froze at this point as seen here.

Visuals: Over a black background is the abstract mountain logo, with "Paramount" in black script in a light blue circle like the other Paramount logos, and the "A Gulf + Western Company" byline at the bottom in light blue. It begins to zoom in, as the stars (which are followed by light trail-streaks) and byline zoom past, and both the mountain and circle grow bigger until the camera is literally right on top of the peak of the mountain, with "Paramount" centering in, filling the middle of the screen. When the peak hits the bottom and "Paramount" fits the center, "Paramount" begins to shine. A very bright flash follows, and it dies down to reveal the Paramount script logo in blue and a small "VIDEO" shining a bit between two blue lines.

Variants:

A B&W variant exists.
A slightly longer variant also exists, which starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal.
At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of The Devonsville Terror, the animation is slowed down but plays as normal until all that's left is "Paramount" and the mountain, when the logo freezes in place and the rest of the music is heard. It's unknown if this was used on any home media releases of the film, or any others. It's also possible that Sci-Fi Channel intentionally did this to hide any home video references.

Technique: Backlit cel animation by Editel Video in Los Angeles, California.

Audio: A building set of synthesized strings, ending in a new-age synthesizer tune. Composed by Rick Krizman.

Audio Variant: On the 1983 RCA CED videodisc release of An Evening with Robin Williams, this follows the RCA SelectaVision logo, but it is silent.

Availability: This is a very infrequent logo.

At the time, most Paramount films used the logo used on the film, but most television series (such as Star Trek, with the exception of the 1984 Television Classics LaserDisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie", which uses no logo), comedy specials (such as Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1 and Eddie Murphy: Delirious), and licensed material (such as Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! and The Adventures of the American Rabbit) have this logo.
It is also preserved on most prints of the 1982 VHS release of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (the earliest prints, from around 1982 to early 1983, are confirmed to not have this), and a 1990 reprint of it also retains this logo.
It is also preserved on the 1992 release of A Dog of Flanders (along with the warning that preceded it), also likely a reprint itself.
The B&W variant of this logo can be found on the VHS release of The Untouchables pilot "Scarface Mob" and Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, respectively.
This is also seen on the early 1990s re-release of Strong Kids, Safe Kids.
Other releases that have this include films Paramount issued under license from Atlantic Releasing Corporation (starting with Teen Wolf and ending with Extremities) and tapes of episodes of the drama Call to Glory.
This logo, as well as the multi-colored copyright warning, are also intact on the 1991 VHS print of Toho Entertainment's The Wizard Of Oz (1982).
Paramount Video also produced the first two seasons of Brothers, a sitcom which aired on Showtime from 1984 to 1989.
- As such, this was seen on episodes from those seasons, while the final two seasons would be produced by Paramount Television.

Legacy: This logo is a favorite of many, thanks to its music and animation.

4th Logo (April 20, 1987-April 24, 2007, mid-2010s in Asian VCDs, March 2014 in Indonesia)

NTSC DVD variant
PAL DVD variant

Visuals: As the logo fades in, there is a model of the mountain from before with a CGI lake in front of it and a light blue/yellow gradient sky with a yellow sunset behind it. As the sky darkens, the camera zooms towards the mountain as 22 silver CGI stars fly from the bottom left and encircle the mountain. The "Paramount" script, redone with a shiny silver finish, then fades in on the peak of the mountain, along with a registered trademark symbol. One of the three bylines (as seen below) fades in below. This is basically the same as the theatrical logo of the era, except that the logo is videotaped; the picture quality is somewhat sharper and the color scheme is brighter than normal.

Bylines:

April 20, 1987-August 25, 1989: "A Gulf + Western Company". 1987 releases used the 75th Anniversary variant, while 1988-89 releases used the standard version.
September 7, 1989-May 9, 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline fades in. 1989-90 releases had the byline and line above it in gold, while 1990-95 releases had them in white.
June 13, 1995-April 24, 2007: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 "Wigga Wigga" font) with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.

Trivia: Even though Paramount debuted an updated version of their movie logo in 1999, they still used the 1995 variant for home video releases and television films.

Variants:

On occasion, the logo begins much earlier than the theatrical variant.
Like its parent logo, at the end of VHS releases, only the finished product is seen, with the clouds moving in the background. This is also used as part of a series of bumpers placed before trailers on several Paramount tapes from 1999 to 2002 (more on that here).
An early Viacom byline uses the Gulf + Western/Paramount Communications variant, but when "A VIACOM COMPANY" fades in, the entire logo freezes.
Starting in the mid-1990s, the cloud background is slightly changed, like with its parent logo.
A short version of this logo exists, which can be found on screener VHS releases from Paramount.
A telecined version also exists, as evidenced by the video-generated fade-ins and fade-outs. It starts with an almost fully static logo (only the clouds move); after a few seconds, the animation starts normally. The color scheme also has a bit of a brownish/earthy tone to it. This variant can be seen on 1990-2001 VHS releases primarily from Nickelodeon (but not always), such as Peanuts VHS releases, Eureeka's Castle: Wide Awake at Eureeka's Castle (1997 release, at the beginning), The Adventures of Corduroy: The Dinosaur Egg, Gullah Gullah Island: Dance Along with the Daise Family, the Paramount Family Favorites release of Charlotte's Web (1973), Rugrats: A Rugrats Vacation (at the end), Rugrats: Dr. Tommy Pickles, Gullah Gullah Island: Christmas (at the beginning of the promotional copy), Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Treasure Hunt, Rugrats: Make Room for Dil, Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Pajama Party (later printings), Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie (at the beginning), Better Off Dead (the 2000 release) and The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye.
Some tapes with the Viacom variant have the clouds become still once the Viacom byline appears.
A still version also exists, which is seen at the end of some VHS releases. This version is also preserved on the 2002 DVD releases of Rugrats: Decade in Diapers and SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies and the 1992 U.S. VHS release of Demonic Toys (before the Full Moon logo).
The Viacom variant is slightly shifted up on some PAL DVD releases.
This logo is also spotted at the end of some trailers on screener VHS tapes from the company. Here, the logo is already formed, but there's copyright info under the mountain. The copyright info then fades out after a few seconds to make room for the byline to fade in.

Technique: A mixture of CGI animation and live-action, designed and composited by Jay Jacoby of Studio Productions (now Flip Your Lid Animation). The CGI stars were created by David Sieg at Omnibus/Abel on a III Foonly F1 computer, and the mountain scenery was a physical model created and filmed by Apogee, Inc.

Audio: None or the opening theme of the movie.

Audio Variants:

On the U.S. VHS releases of Fatal Attraction (plastering the 75th Anniversary logo) and The Blue Iguana, the 1987 Paramount Pictures fanfare is heard.
At the end of the It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown 1997 U.S. VHS release, the promotional copies of Dora the Explorer: Dora's Backpack Adventure and Boohbah: Comfy Armchair, and one promo on the 1995 screener VHS of Drop Zone, the 1989 "distorted" version of the 1987 Paramount Television theme is heard.
On most Paramount VCD releases in Indonesia released by Movieline Entertainment, quiet lawn grass sprinkler noises (which sounds like clock ticks or footsteps) are heard throughout the logo. This is actually the opening audio of the film Election, suggesting the logo was taken directly from that film.

Availability:

This was used as a de-facto home video logo; it is also one of the most frequently used logos, as it can be seen on every VHS, Beta, and LaserDisc release from that period - this also includes television series (such as the original Star Trek), comedy specials, and third-party acquisitions like Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (where this plasters the original Atlantic Releasing Corporation logo), Teen Wolf Too, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, and titles licensed from The Rank Organisation (such as The Red Shoes).
Many VHS releases should have either the 75th Anniversary print logo, or the standard Gulf+Western print logo (with no mention of "HOME VIDEO") on the packaging and labels.
The 75th Anniversary logo also plasters over the "Blue Mountain" logo on the 1987 U.S. VHS releases of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Crocodile Dundee, Children of a Lesser God, Top Gun, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, respectively.
- Meanwhile, the standard Gulf+Western version plasters over the 75th Anniversary logo on the 1988 U.S. VHS releases of Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Back to the Beach, Fatal Attraction, and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, respectively.
- International VHS releases of these films (all released by CIC Video, with the exception of Crocodile Dundee) will likely have the film's original logo intact.
The Paramount Communications variant plasters the standard Gulf+Western version on 1990s VCD prints of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!.
This is also seen on all 1994-2004 Peanuts U.S. VHS releases and all Nickelodeon U.S. VHS releases from 1996 to 2003.
- The 75th Anniversary variant was also seen on a Showtime broadcast of Hamburger Hill from March 1991.
This logo was also seen on the direct-to-video films The Little Bear Movie and Blue's Big Musical Movie, respectively.
This and the CBS Video logo also made appearances on Freevee prints of the Touched by an Angel episodes "The Christmas Gift" and "Beautiful Dreamer".
It is also seen at the start of VHS releases and non-USA Network airings of TV movies from Wilshire Court Productions of the era.
It can also be found on a number of demo VHS releases from as late as 2007, despite its discontinuation on commercial releases in 2003.
- These include George Lopez: Why You Crying?, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks: Piggley Gets Into Trouble, and Wonder Pets!: Save The Wonder Pets!, released in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively.
This will occasionally appear before the opening previews on certain VHS releases.
- One example of this is the Paramount reissue of Rugrats: A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do and some other Nickelodeon tapes from 1996.
This logo is also preserved on Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's DVD releases of Puppet Master 5 and the Mexican DVD release of Demonic Toys, each before the Full Moon logo, most likely due to older VHS masters being used.
The Viacom version was also spotted at the start of Disney Channel/ABC Family (now Freeform) airings of Teen Witch (Trans World Entertainment struck a deal with Viacom in the early 90s for TV distribution of their films, with Paramount subsequently inheriting those rights. This syndication deal also applied to Trans World's successors, Epic Productions and Vision International.) as well as Trifecta's syndicated prints of There Goes the Neighborhood and Another 48. Hrs, respectively, among others.
The version with the Paramount Television fanfare is also preserved at the end of the 2004 U.S. VHS release of Boohbah: Comfy Armchair, following the PBS Kids Video logo.
- It is also seen at the end of the 1997 U.S. VHS release of It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown.
Depending on the country, Paramount's VCD releases in Asian territories still used this logo until the mid-2010s, in the case of Indonesian VCD releases, this logo was used until 2014, and is shown after the Movieline Entertainment logo usually before the previews.

5th Logo (November 15, 1993)

Visuals: On a black background with blue filmstrips, the Paramount script is seen being written in a gold color in its trademark font. As this is occurring, the background opens up in segments to reveal the 1986 Paramount logo, without a byline and the stars in a light gold color.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: A male announcer (Gene McGarr) says "Paramount Pictures, bringing you the finest in holiday entertainment, and the best of the new year". All of this is said against a bombastic fanfare, an excerpt from the end theme of The Untouchables (the 1987 movie), composed by Ennio Morricone.

Availability:

This logo was seen on three out of four VHS releases by the company in late 1993 that were available in McDonald's restaurants; these releases included Charlotte's Web, Ghost, and The Addams Family, respectively. It is played following a preview reel for releases for the 1993 holiday season (and to promote Paramount's films Addams Family Values and Wayne's World 2, as both films released that season).
The fourth VHS, Wayne's World, used the previously-viewed rental cassette's master and therefore doesn't use this.

Paramount Home Entertainment

1st Logo (November 12, 1996)

Visuals: Over a gold background, the Paramount script moves into its usual position onto the company's print logo, which is engraved onto the background, while the camera zooms out. Once the text settles, the Viacom "Wigga-Wigga" byline fades in underneath.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: A male announcer (Nick Tate) says "Paramount Pictures, the best show in town!" In the background, the same music from the 5th Paramount Home Video logo (albeit abridged) is heard.

Audio Trivia: The tagline is a nod to Paramount's slogan in the 1920s: "If it's a Paramount picture, it's the best show in town."

Availability: Only seen on the original North American VHS release (both U.S. and Canadian prints) of Mission: Impossible. As with the previous logo, this follows a preview reel for releases during the 1996 holiday season.

2nd Logo (Early 1998-1999)

Visuals: Over a cloudy sunset background is a different CGI rendition of the famed Paramountain; it's covered with snow and ice, with the Paramount script and stars already formed on top of it, albeit without a byline. The camera slowly zooms in and rotates around the logo, showing the viewer the back of the mountain as a lens flare flashes.

Trivia: This logo appears to be the base for the Paramount Classics logo, which virtually has the same animation albeit in reverse.

Variant: Paramount adapted this logo for use on two trailers (see here for more details). This logo appears to be filmed, so it's possible it was intended to be a new theatrical logo but ended up being unused for that purpose (since Paramount re-did their 1986 logo in 1999).

Technique: CGI created by Pittard Sullivan.

Audio: A majestic orchestral fanfare ("The Crimson Gump" from the score of Forrest Gump, composed by Alan Silvestri) is heard throughout as Jim Cummings intones:

Early 1998: "In celebration of the end of one millennium and the dawn of another, Paramount Pictures is preparing to bring to movie lovers everywhere a collection of films that symbolize the best in its movie-making history..."
1998-1999: "...In celebration of the end of one century and the dawn of another...Paramount Pictures is proud to present a collection of films that symbolize the best in its movie-making history..."

Availability: This was only ever used on Paramount's "Millennium Collection" video trailer, which can be seen on the VHS releases of In & Out, Sliding Doors, Hard Rain, A Simple Plan, Event Horizon, Switchback, Twilight (1998), and A Smile Like Yours.

3rd Logo (May 7, 2002-December 27, 2008)

Fullscreen version
Widescreen version
Fullscreen videotaped version
Fullscreen filmed version
Widescreen version
4:3 center-cut version

Visuals: The camera pans down from a starry sky to a set of clouds. As the camera slowly zooms backwards, a few cometoid objects fly down and reveal themselves as the trademark Paramount stars that zoom past the camera. The familiar Paramount script (with a gold border) zooms out to show the camera had been watching a reflection (which fades to white) the entire time as a total of 22 stars shoot past the script and encircle the mountain (which is now more realistic in appearance and is missing the snow) on a dusk background. The script continues to zoom out before taking its place at the peak of the mountain. The Viacom byline (once again, with a line above) then fades in below the logo.

Variants:

For the logo's first year, 2002, the words "90^TH ANNIVERSARY" in gold, with "90" bigger and "^TH" smaller and on the top right of "90" and "ANNIVERSARY" below, fade in with the Viacom byline, sandwiched between the peak of the mountain. The trademark symbol ("™") is used in place of the registered trademark symbol ("®") in this variation. The logo's general color scheme is brighter and more cartoonish. One star at the beginning of the logo is absent, the clouds in the sky and around the mountain appear less realistic (with the ones around the mountain looking flatter compared to the later version), and the sky background in the second half appears to be stretched vertically (meaning that this variant was possibly animated for 4:3 screens; however, on We Were Soldiers, which was the first film to use the 90th Anniversary logo, the sky background is more or less unaltered). The stars have a stronger motion blur effect, and some of them in the final shot look darker. The stars in the final shot are somewhat off-center from the rest of the mountain, and there is also an error during the portion where the script zooms back, in which some of the stars seem to jump out of the reflection of the text. Also, the trademark symbol is yellow instead of white.
- The 90th Anniversary variant was reanimated to look more natural on Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, with the trademark symbol also being changed to white.
A shorter version also exists, which starts with the stars zooming down through the clouds.
In rare cases, the logo does not fade in or out. An example of this is the 2005 U.S. VHS release of Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!.
A widescreen version exists. This can be seen on widescreen releases from Paramount.
A filmed version of the 2003 variant exists.
At the end of VHS releases, the finished product is seen, with the clouds moving westward in the background.
On the 2005 U.S. VHS release of Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!, the logo is zoomed in, like the Paramount Network Television logo.

Technique: CGI animation directed by Peter Schluter at BUF Compagnie, believed to have been done on one of BUF's 75 Silicon Graphics O2 units.

Audio: None or the opening theme of the movie.

Audio Variants:

At the end of the 2005 U.S. VHS release of Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!, the 1989 version of the 1987 Paramount Television theme is heard. However, it is not heard on the demo version of the U.S. VHS release thereof.
Mean Girls uses the Paramount on Parade fanfare.

Availability: This logo was used as another de-facto home video logo.

The 90th Anniversary version can be found on 2002 VHS and DVD releases such as Trading Places, Little Bear: Campfire Tales, Blue's Clues: Reading with Blue, SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories, MTV Yoga, Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music, The Day Reagan Was Shot, Flashdance, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (on the VHS release only, where this plasters the 1999 Paramount logo that the film uses, the Region 2 DVD keeps this logo intact before the menu), Black Sheep, Vanilla Sky, Major League, Damaged Care, Bleacher Bums, My Horrible Year!, all 3 Jackass volumes, Rugrats Christmas, Clockstoppers, Hey Arnold!: The Movie, and K-19: The Widowmaker, respectively.
The standard version can be found on almost every Paramount VHS released from 2003 onwards.
- It can also be found on the European versions of SpongeBob SquarePants DVD releases of Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies and Halloween, respectively.
The standard version also plasters the 90th Anniversary variant of the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo on the 2003 VHS releases of Extreme Ops, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, Jackass: The Movie, and The Hours, respectively.
The zoomed-in version as well as the closing version with the Paramount Television fanfare was only seen on the 2005 U.S. VHS release of Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!.
The closing version is seen at the end of all Paramount VHS releases from 2002-2006.
Demo tapes still used this logo through the end of 2008 (a few demo tapes from 2004-2007 used the 4th logo), while VCD releases continued using this logo until 2007 (such as the 2007 VCD of Flushed Away (2006)).
The standard version also makes a surprise appearance on the 2009 Australian DVD release of Charlie & Boots.

Final Note

Current PHE releases use the 2011-present Paramount Pictures logo without any modifications.

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-Paramount Home Media Distribution (formerly "Paramount Home Entertainment", "Paramount Home Video", and "Paramount Video") is Paramount Pictures' home media division and was formed around 1978/1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films owned by Paramount and shows from sister company Viacom Media Networks (under individual labels such as MTV Home Video and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from CBS Corporation (such as CBS Television Studios/CBS Television Distribution and Showtime Networks material and released through CBS Home Entertainment, although CBS Films material is released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment) and several independent studios. They formerly released DreamWorks Animation material through DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment until 2014, when the latter acquired distribution rights to their library and transferred the rights to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the Republic Pictures library and select Paramount films were licensed to Olive Films and Kino Lorber. From 2013-2016, the company licensed the home media rights to most of the Paramount Pictures (with some exceptions) library to Warner Home Video. Paramount continues to release licensed material and material from sister companies.
+'''Paramount Home Entertainment''' (formerly "'''Paramount Home Media Distribution'''", "'''Paramount Home Video'''", and "'''Paramount Video'''") is [[Paramount Pictures|'''Paramount''' Pictures]]' home media division and was formed in 1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films and shows owned by Paramount and shows from sister companies CBS Entertainment Group (under the label [[CBS Home Entertainment]]; the pre-2006 [[Paramount Television]] library is released under this label as well) and Paramount Media Networks (under individual labels such as [[MTV Home Entertainment|MTV Home Video]] and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from several independent studios.
+The company was the final major Hollywood studio to release material on the Betamax format, with releases to 1993 in the wide market and up to 1996 with manufactured-on-demand titles (the last being ''Mission: Impossible''). They formerly released [[DreamWorks Animation]] material through [[DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment]] until 2014, when the latter acquired distribution rights to their library and transferred the rights to [[20th Century Studios Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]].
-==Paramount Home Video==
+On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the [[Republic Entertainment|Republic Pictures]] library and select Paramount films were licensed to [[Olive Films]] and [[Kino Lorber]]. From 2013-2016, the company licensed the home media rights to most of the Paramount Pictures (with some exceptions) library to [[Warner Home Video]]. Paramount continued to release licensed material and material from sister companies. In May 2019, Paramount Home Media Distribution was renamed back to Paramount Home Entertainment.
-===1st Logo (1978/1979-1980)===
-Paramount Home Video (1976)
+{{SeparateTOC|Paramount Home Video|
+{{ImageTOC
-==== Nicknames ====
+|Paramount Home Video.jpg|1st Logo (September 17, 1979-October 2, 1980)
-"Still Mountain", "Boring Mountain", "Blue Mountain"
+|Paramount Home Video second logo.jpg|2nd Logo (October 3, 1980-January 26, 1981)
+|Paramount Video.jpg|3rd Logo (October 5, 1983-March 12, 1987)
+|Paramount Home Video (2000) (DVD).png|4th Logo (April 20, 1987-April 24, 2007, mid-2010s in Asian VCDs, March 2014 in Indonesia)
+|Paramount Home Video (1993).png|5th Logo (November 15, 1993)
+}}
+|Paramount Home Entertainment|
+{{ImageTOC
+|Paramount Home Video (1996, Source - VHS Release of Mission- Impossible).png|1st Logo (November 12, 1996)
+|Paramount Pictures 1998.jpeg|2nd Logo (Early 1998-1999)
+|Paramount Home Entertainment (2003) (Widescreen).png|3rd Logo (May 7, 2002-December 27, 2008)
+}}}}
-==== Logo ====
+==Paramount Home Video==
+===1st Logo (September 17, 1979-October 2, 1980)===
-On a {{Font color|navy|navy blue}} background, we see "Paramount" in the famous script, and "HOME VIDEO" below that in a wide Microgramma Bold font in between two lines, one above and one below. To the right of that, we see the 1968 Paramount print logo to the right, complete with the Gulf+Western byline. A moment later, a warning screen (also on a {{Font color|navy|navy blue}} background) fades over this logo.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Paramount Home Video.jpg
-====FX/SFX====
+Paramount Home Video (1953-1979).jpg
-None; unless you count the fade to the warning screen.
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=92dludaT-u0|id2=CxScjAt55Do}}
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-None.
-==== Availability ====
-Extremely rare. Because VHS and Beta were in their infancies at the time, releases were in lower quantities and are harder to find.
-* This logo appeared primarily on Betamax releases. This should appear on a few VHS releases from 1979 and 1980 including the first two ''Godfather'' films, ''Saturday Night Fever'', ''Grease'', ''Heaven Can Wait'', ''True Grit'', ''Goin' South'', ''Play It Again Sam'', ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976 version), ''Prophecy'' and ''Catch 22''.
-* Among the last releases to use this logo were five volumes of ''Star Trek'' episodes as part of the "Television Classics" series on VHS and Betamax in Summer 1980 (Those releases are out of print, having been replaced in 1985 by Paramount's single-episode releases, and are hard to find). Other final releases with this logo were tapes of ''Escape from Alcatraz'', ''North Dallas Forty'', and ''Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman''.
-* This surprisingly appears on a late 1983 pressing of ''The Odd Couple'' (usually, releases printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo).
-==== Editor's Note ====
-One of the 1st home video company logos ever made, it shows that it's pretty simple.
-===2nd Logo (1979-January 1981)===
-Paramount Home Video (1979)
-==== Nicknames ====
-"Mountain Silhouette", "Scanimated Mountain of Doom", "Black Mountain", "Rising Mountain", "Cheesy Mountain", "In the Shadow of Paramount"
-==== Logo ====
-On a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background, we zoom out on a silhouette of a mountain. After we zoom out to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (they look like circles or lens flares) appear, as well as "Paramount" (in a school bus yellow script, but closer to the pre-1975 logos). A saffron-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "HOME VIDEO" (set in the same font as the previous logo) zooms out soon after, tacked onto the saffron-colored trail. As that happens, the blue background gets extremely dark (looking like federal blue). The end result looks like the pre-1967 print logo.
-==== Trivia ====
-The second half of the logo was once used as the 1977 Paramount Television Service logo. "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" was featured at the bottom, which explains the chyron for "HOME VIDEO". The original version of the logo was produced by the design firm of Sullivan & Marks.
-==== Variant ====
-On ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!'', the logo cuts to the last half of the film's Paramount logo.
-==== FX/SFX ====
- The flash and the effects are pure Scanimate effects.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-A pounding backbeat as the mountain zooms out, then a synth chord mixed with a brief explosion sound and synthesized sizzling.
-==== Availability ====
-Like the first logo, this is also extremely rare, but more because of the fact that this was only used on two batches of releases and re-releases.
-* Seen on VHS/Beta releases of the time, which are not that easy to find, especially since the logo was usually taken off of post-1981 prints. However, since this was on a decent variety of movies, it may help a little.
-*Among the releases are ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)'', ''Death Wish'', ''Escape from Alcatraz'', ''Breaking Glass'', ''Friday the 13th'', ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'', ''Airplane!'', ''Charlotte's Web'', ''Little Darlings'', ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!'', ''Barbarella'', ''Starting Over'', ''American Gigolo'', ''Urban Cowboy'' and ''Shogun''.
-*Some, if very little, post-1981 prints surprisingly keep this logo intact.
-*Also seen on certain Hi-Fi re-releases of Paramount's early releases (such as ''Downhill Racer'' and ''Death Wish'') from 1984, and the original Hi-Fi VHS release of ''True Grit'' (1969 version).
-*Don't expect this logo on LaserDisc releases, as it was replaced with the Laservision logo.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-It shares the same amount of cheesiness from the Paramount Television Service, with the added edition of the cheap cut to it and the chyroned "HOME VIDEO" text. Its also known to creep out some thanks to the ominous music and nature. On the other hand, it's a favorite to those looking for the tapes that have this logo.
-===3rd Logo (1981?-March 1987)===
-Paramount Video (1982)Paramount Video (B&W): 1982Paramount Video (1982 - Freeze Frame)
-==== Nicknames ====
-"Growing Mountain", "Blue Paramount"
-==== Logo ====
-On a black background, we see the abstract mountain logo, with "Paramount" in black script in the light blue circle like the other Paramount logos, and the "A Gulf + Western Company" byline at the bottom in {{Font color|deepskyblue|light blue}}. It begins to zoom up on us, as the stars (which are followed by light trail-streaks) and byline zoom past, and both the mountain and circle grow bigger until we are literally right on top of the peak of the mountain, with "Paramount" centering in, filling the middle of the screen. When the peak hits the bottom and "Paramount" fits the center, "Paramount" begins to shine, then there is a very bright flash, and it dies down to reveal the Paramount script logo (in {{Font color|blue|blue}}) and a small "VIDEO" (shining a bit) between two {{Font color|blue|blue}} lines.
-==== Variants ====
-* A black-and-white variant exists.
-* A rare, slightly longer variant exists, which starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal.
-* At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of ''The Devonsville Terror'', the animation is slowed down but plays as normal until all there is is "Paramount" and the mountain, when the logo freezes in place and the rest of the music is heard. It's unknown if this was used on any home media releases of the film, or any others.
-==== FX/SFX ====
-The growing mountain and the flash are pure Scanimate effects. Certainly a large improvement over its predecessor.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-A building set of synthesized strings, ending in a new-age synthesizer tune composed by Richard J. Krizman, which sounds somewhat similar to the "Meet George Jetson" portion of the ''Jetsons'' theme.
-==== Music/Sounds Variant ====
-On the 1983 RCA CED videodisc release of ''An Evening with Robin Williams'', this follows the RCA SelectaVision logo, but is silent.
-==== Availability ====
-Very rare.
-* Most Paramount films used the logo used on the film, but most television series (such as ''Star Trek'', with the exception of the 1984 Television Classics Laserdisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie", which uses no logo), comedy specials (such as ''Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1''), and licensed material (such as ''Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'' and ''The Adventures of the American Rabbit'') have this logo.
-*It was also on most prints of the 1982 VHS release of ''Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol'' (the earliest prints, from around 1982 to early 1983, are confirmed to not have this), and a 1990 reprint of it retained the logo.
-*It is also on the 1992 release of ''A Dog of Flanders'' (along with the warning that preceded it), also likely a reprint itself.
-*The black and white version can be found on a VHS release of ''The Untouchables'' pilot "Scarface Mob" and ''Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back''.
-* This was also surprisingly seen on the early 1990s re-release of ''Strong Kids, Safe Kids'', after the 5th logo.
-* Other releases that have this include ''Teen Wolf'' and ''Call to Glory''.
-* This logo, as well as the multi-colored copyright warning, appear on the 1991 VHS print of Toho Entertainment's ''The Wizard Of Oz'' (1982).
-* Paramount Video would produce 1984 to 1986 episodes of ''Brothers'', a sitcom which aired on Showtime from 1984 to 1989. This would appear on 1984 to 1986 episodes, while 1987 to 1989 episodes would be produced by Paramount Television.
-==== Editor's Note ====
- This logo is a favorite of many, thanks to its soothing music and rather high-tech animation for the time.
-===4th Logo (April 1987-February 4, 2003)===
-Paramount Home Video - 75th AnniversaryParamount Home VideoParamount Home Video (1989)Paramount Home Video (1990)Paramount Home Video (1995)
-==== Nicknames ====
-"CGI Mountain", "90s Mountain"
-==== Logo ====
-It's the 1986 Paramount Pictures logo with no video indicator whatsoever. The difference here from the theatrical version is that the logo is videotaped; the picture quality is somewhat sharper and the color scheme is brighter than normal. On occasion, the logo begins much earlier than the theatrical variant.
-==== Variants ====
-Like its parent logo, at the end of tapes, the logo is still. This version also appears on the 2002 DVD of ''Rugrats: Decade in Diapers'' and the 1992 VHS of ''Demonic Toys'' (before the Full Moon logo). This version also appears before trailers on certain Paramount releases from 2000 to 2003. There is also a short version of this logo on screener tapes from Paramount.
-==== Bylines ====
-* April 1987-1989: "A Gulf + Western Company". 1987 releases used the 75th Anniversary variant, while 1988-89 releases used the standard version.
-* 1989-1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline fades in. 1989-90 releases had the byline and line above it in gold, while 1990-95 releases had them in white.
-* 1995-February 4, 2003: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 \/|/\CO/\/\ "Wigga Wigga" font) with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.
-==== FX/SFX ====
-Same as the 1986 Paramount Pictures logo.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-None.
-==== Availability ====
-Extremely common.
-*This was used as a de-facto home video logo, and can be seen on every VHS and Laserdisc release from that period -- this also includes television series (such as the original ''Star Trek''), comedy specials, and third-party acquisitions like ''Teen Wolf Too'' and ''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie''. Combine this with its 16-year span, and this may be the most common home video logo period--maybe even more so than any of Disney's logos, or even the next logo!
-*Look for either the 75th Anniversary print logo, or the standard Gulf+Western print logo (with no mention of "HOME VIDEO") on the packaging and labels.
-*The 75th Anniversary logo plasters over the "Blue Mountain" logo on the 1987 home video releases of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''Crocodile Dundee'', ''Children of a Lesser God'', ''Top Gun'', and ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''. Meanwhile, the standard Gulf+Western version plasters over the 75th Anniversary logo on the 1988 releases of ''Beverly Hills Cop II'', ''The Untouchables'', ''Back to the Beach'', ''Fatal Attraction'', and ''Planes, Trains, & Automobiles''. International VHS release of these films (all released by CIC Video, with the exception of ''Crocodile Dundee'') will likely have the film's original logo intact.
-*This was also used on all 1994-2004 ''Peanuts'' VHS releases and all Nickelodeon VHS releases from 1996 to 2003. The 75th Anniversary variant was also used on a Showtime broadcast of ''Hamburger Hill'' from March 1991.
-*It was also seen on the direct-to-video films ''The Little Bear Movie'' and ''Blue's Big Musical Movie''.
-*Even though this logo was officially discontinued in 2003, this would continue to make unexpected appearances on demo tapes from as late as 2007. Examples include the demo VHS releases of ''Jakers: Piggly Gets Into Trouble'' & ''The Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets'', released in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
-*Occasionally, this will appear before the opening previews on certain tapes. One example of this is the Paramount reissue of ''Rugrats: A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do'' and some other Nickelodeon tapes from 1996.
-*It was preserved on Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's DVD release of ''Puppet Master 5'' and the Mexican DVD of ''Demonic Toys'', each before the Full Moon logo, most likely due to older VHS masters being used.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-Same as the 1986 Paramount Pictures logo.
-===5th Logo (May 17, 1989-January 5, 2007)===
-Paramount Home Video (1989)Paramount Home Entertainment (1990)Paramount Home Entertainment (1992)Paramount Home Entertainment (1995)
-Paramount Feature Presentation" BumperParamount Coming Attractions" Bumper
-==== Nicknames ====
-"Feature Presentation", "Abstract Mountain", "The Bumper-esque Logo"
-==== Logo ====
-On a background filled with {{Font color|blue|blue}}/{{Font color|indigo|indigo}} squares, we see a {{Font color|blue|blue}} square with the Paramount mountain logo in {{Font color|gold|gold}}. It shines, then moves and zooms away as the squares behind it move off, revealing the stacked words "{{Font color|gold|FEATURE PRESENTATION}}" in {{Font color|gold|gold}} zooming in on a heliotrope gradient background. The words shine, and after that, it zooms towards us at breakneck speed. Just when the text engulfs the screen, it cuts to a warning screen, which has a pattern of Paramount mountains in the background.
-==== Bylines ====
-This used whatever byline Paramount was using at the time:
-* May 17-October 16, 1989: "A Gulf + Western Company" (used for only six months that year)
-* November 9, 1989-May 16, 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" (the "Feature Presentation" versions have a different font for the Paramount Communications byline: sans serif)
-* June 13, 1995-January 5, 2007: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo)
-==== Variants ====
-*There was a special bumper used for trailers from 1989 to 1998 or 1999, with the words "COMING ATTRACTIONS" over the heliotrope gradient background, which cuts off after the zoom in.
-*On the 1989 re-releases of ''Sunset Boulevard'' on VHS (reissued from the 1988 printing) and ''The Courageous Dr. Christain'' on Laserdisc (reissued from the 1987 printing), the logo and warning screen is in black and white.
-*There is a very rare long version of the Gulf+Western logo where once we fade in, the logo doesn't actually start for a few seconds. Also, once the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" text zooms in, there is a tan screen for a split-second, then the warning screen appears.
-==== FX/SFX ====
-The CGI squares moving away and the animation on the Paramount square, which held up pretty well throughout the logo's lifespan.
-==== Music/Sounds/Voice-over ====
-The 1979 "Paramount on Parade" fanfare, with a male announcer saying "And now, we're pleased to bring you...our feature presentation."
-==== Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants ====
-*A variation exists where the announcer says "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation". This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdisc releases, as well as VHS releases which have no previews before the film (such as the 1989 releases of the first four ''Star Trek'' films, the 1998 release of ''A Separate Peace'', the 2000 release of ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', the 2001 release ''Nick Jr.'s Imagine That!'', any promotional copies of movies released by Paramount (with the exception of ''Harriet the Spy'', ''The Ghost and the Darkness'', ''The General's Daughter'', ''Coach Carter: A Night at the Roxbury'', ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie'', ''Teletubbies: Naughty Noo Noo!'', ''Boohbah: Hot Dog'', ''Nickelodeon Super Toons'', and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of ''Forrest Gump'', while the full screen version has the standard voice-over). This variant also appears on tapes made and sold exclusively through Columbia House (usually identifiable by the presence of an orange sticker on the cover). On rare occasions, this variation did appear right after previews, such as the 1996 VHS of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' and its 2000 reprint, the 2005 demo VHS releases of ''Mad Hot Ballroom'', & ''Winter Solstice'', and a series of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonald's promotion, including ''The Addams Family'' and ''Ghost'' (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme).
-* On the "COMING ATTRACTIONS" variant, the announcer says "Here are some exciting coming attractions from Paramount."
-==== Availability ====
-Very common. It appears on most Paramount video releases
-*The "COMING ATTRACTIONS" version was only used until the late 1990's.
-*The original Gulf+Western variation (which is the least common) made its debut on the May 1989 home video release of ''Coming to America'', and can be found on releases such as the first four ''Star Trek'' films, ''Distant Thunder'', ''The Experts'', ''The Best of Eddie Murphy: Saturday Night Live'', ''Cousins'', ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!'', ''Major League'', ''Pet Sematary'', and ''Puppet Master'', among others.
-*The Paramount Communications variation (which is easier to find) debuted on the November 1989 VHS release of ''Scrooged'', and is also on the 1990 VHS release of ''Grease'', the 1991 VHS and Laserdisc releases of ''Ghost'', both ''Wayne's World'' films, the 1993 release of ''Charlotte's Web'', and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of ''Forrest Gump''.
-*The Viacom variant is extremely common and appears on nearly every Paramount VHS release from 1995 onwards, starting with the June 1995 VHS release of ''Drop Zone''.
-*The final Paramount film to use this logo was the 2006 VHS of the 2005 remake of ''Yours, Mine & Ours'', and the last tape to use it overall was the 2007 screener VHS of ''Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets!''. Some of the last official releases with this logo (besides the aforementioned ''Yours, Mine & Ours'' film) include ''Elizabethtown'', ''Bad News Bears'' (the 2005 remake), ''Four Brothers'', and the film adaptation of ''The Honeymooners''.
-*On the 1991 LaserDisc release of ''Apocalypse Now'' and the 1998 VHS release of ''Titanic'', this logo is not shown at all, it just goes straight to the warning screen, while on the 1997 releases of ''The Godfather'' trilogy, the logo cuts to a black screen before the 1995 [[THX]] logo, as the warnings are placed at the beginning, separate from the logo.
-*The normal version strangely appears on the original 1989 VHS release of ''Major League'' and the 1991 ''Star Trek: The Movies'' VHS box set (pan and scan version only; the widescreen edition of the box set uses the other voiceover) despite those releases having no previews.
-*This makes a surprise appearance on the United Kingdom VHS releases that have any special features at the end of the tape, such as ''The Italian Job'' and ''Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life''.
-*This appears on demo VHS tapes of PBS Kids shows from 2004 to 2006, such as ''Boohbah''. The normal releases just start with the warning screen used on Paramount DVDs.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-Perhaps one of the most famous logos in home video history. The cut to black on the "COMING ATTRACTIONS" variant may surprise some, though.
-===6th Logo (December 1993)===
+'''Visuals:''' Over a {{color|navy|navy blue}} background is "{{font|Serif|'''''Paramount'''''}}" in the famous script, and "HOME VIDEO" below in the Eurostile Bold Extended font in between two lines, one above and one below. To the right of that is the 1968 Paramount print logo to the right, complete with the Gulf+Western byline.
-Paramount Home Video (Christmas Season 1993 Variant)
-==== Nickname ====
-"Lined Mountain"
+'''Variant:''' A grayscaled variant exists on releases of some black-and-white films, such as <u>''Sunset Boulevard''</u> and <u>''Paper Moon''</u>.
-==== Logo ====
-On a black background with blue filmstrips, "Paramount" is seen being written in a gold color in its trademark font. As this is occurring, the background is opening up in segments to reveal the 1986 Paramount logo, without a byline and the stars in a light gold color.
+'''Technique:''' A still graphic.
-==== FX/SFX ====
-The background opening up, "Paramount" being written, and the Paramount Pictures logo being revealed. All of this is very nice CGI.
+'''Audio:''' None, though on some tapes, audio from other Paramount films, such as ''Paper Moon'', can be faintly heard in the background.
-==== Music/Sounds/Voice-over ====
-A male announcer says, "Paramount Pictures, bringing you the finest in holiday entertainment, and the best of the new year". All of this is said against a bombastic fanfare, an excerpt from ''The Untouchables'' soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone.
+'''Availability:''' Because VHS and Beta were in their infancies at the time, releases were in lower quantities.
-==== Availability ====
+* This logo is preserved primarily on Betamax releases.
-Very rare. This logo was seen on VHS releases by the company from the era around the Christmas season of 1993 that were available in McDonald's restaurants. The releases included ''Charlotte's Web'', ''Ghost'', ''The Addams Family'', and ''Wayne's World''.
+** This logo can also be found on a few VHS releases from 1979 and 1980 including the first two ''Godfather'' films, ''Saturday Night Fever'', ''Grease'', ''Heaven Can Wait'', ''True Grit'', ''Goin' South'', ''Play It Again Sam'', ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976 version), ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'', ''Sunset Boulevard'', ''Prophecy'' and ''Catch 22''.
+* Among the last releases to use this logo were five volumes of ''Star Trek'' episodes as part of the "Television Classics" series on VHS and Betamax in summer 1980.
+** Other final releases with this logo were tapes of ''Escape from Alcatraz'', ''North Dallas Forty'', ''Mandingo'', ''Malicious'', ''Prophecy'', ''Players'', and ''Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman''.
+* This is also intact on a late 1983 pressing of ''The Odd Couple'' and a 1984 printing of ''Harold and Maude'' (usually, releases of movies printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo).
+===2nd Logo (October 3, 1980-January 26, 1981)===
-==== Editor's Note ====
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
-None.
+Paramount Home Video second logo.jpg
+Paramount Home Entertainment (2019).jpg
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=w8qaodgrhwI}}
+'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, the camera zooms out on a silhouette of a mountain. After the screen zooms out to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (they look like circles or lens flares) appear, as well as the Paramount script (in a {{color|#ef8e00|school bus yellow}} color, but closer to the pre-1975 logos). A {{color|#f4c430|saffron}}-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "'''HOME VIDEO'''" (set in the same font as the previous logo) fades in soon after, tacked onto the {{color|#f4c430|saffron}}-colored trail. As that happens, the {{color|blue}} background gets extremely dark (resembling {{color|navy|federal blue}}). The end result is similar to the pre-1967 print logo.
-===7th Logo (February 2002-January 2003)===
+'''Trivia:''' The second half of the logo was once used as the 1977 [[Paramount Television Service]] logo. "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" was featured at the bottom, which explains the chyron for "HOME VIDEO".
-Paramount Home Entertainment (2002)Paramount 90th Anniversary Home Entertainment Feature Presentation (2002)
+'''Variant:''' On <u>''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!''</u>, the logo cuts to the last half of the film's Paramount logo.
-==== Nicknames ====
-"Feature Presentation II", "CGI Mountain II", "Ultra Majestic Mountain", "Ultra Majestic Perumount"
+'''Technique:''' Backlit animation by Sullivan & Marks, with the "HOME VIDEO" text chyroned over the original "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" text.
-==== Logo ====
-An enhanced version of the previous "Feature Presentation" logo. A full color version of the 2002 Paramount logo appears in a square that overlaps a background of four purple squares. A line of light passes over it, and then the logo flies off and the squares peel off, pretty much like before. They reveal "FEATURE PRESENTATION" in a gold-yellow font flying into place, each word from a different end. The words now float against a dark cloud background, eventually zooming out towards the screen in a trail of gold light. The warning post appears as always, but with a dark blue background in place of the usual logo wallpaper.
+'''Audio:''' A pounding backbeat as the mountain zooms out, then a synth chord mixed with a brief explosion sound and synthesized "sizzling".
-==== FX/SFX ====
-Same as the previous logo, except for the moving cloud background and the trailing gold light of the text.
+'''Availability:''' The logo's appearances are few and far between; it is seen on VHS/Beta releases of the time, and a decent amount of movies have this.
-==== Music/Sounds/Voice-over ====
+* Among the releases are ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)'', ''Coast to Coast'', ''Death Wish'' (reissue), ''Escape from Alcatraz'' (reissue), ''Breaking Glass'', ''Friday the 13th'', ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'', ''Airplane!'', ''Charlotte's Web'' (reissue), ''Little Darlings'', ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!'' (reissue), ''Barbarella'' (reissue), ''Starting Over'', ''American Gigolo'', ''Urban Cowboy'' and ''Shogun'', respectively.
-Same as the 5th logo.
+* Some, if any post-1981 prints also keep this logo intact.
+* It is also seen on certain Hi-Fi re-releases of Paramount's early releases (such as ''Downhill Racer'' and ''Death Wish'') from 1984, and the original Hi-Fi VHS release of ''True Grit'' (1969 version).
+* It is also seen on a 2019 trailer of ''Bumblebee'' (2018) advertising a "VHS release" of said film.
+===3rd Logo (October 5, 1983-March 12, 1987)===
-==== Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variant ====
+<tabber>
-There is a very rare variant which uses the "Paramount is..." voiceover. The only known releases with this variant were ''Damaged Care'', ''Bleacher Bums'', ''My Horrible Year!'', ''Bobbie's Girl'', the demo VHS tapes of ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash'' and ''Hey Arnold!: The Movie'', and ''The Day Reagan Was Shot''. Again, these are releases with no previews.
+Images=
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Paramount Home Video Blue Mountain.jpg|The mountain
+Paramount Video.jpg|The logo
+Paramount Home Video (B&W, 1983) (A).png|The mountain in B&W
+Paramount Home Video (B&W, 1983) (B).png|The logo in B&W
+Screenshot 2022-09-21 224109.png|A rare look at the logo in its static form.
+Screenshot 2022-09-21 232134.png|In April 1998, the logo appeared on Sci-Fi, and was slowed down, then froze at this point as seen here.
+</gallery>
+|-|
+Videos=
+{{YouTube|id=Vo8Y00f-cs8|id2=eMSksfLMCPE|id3=CiIuQRWmct4}}
+</tabber>
+'''Visuals:''' Over a black background is the abstract mountain logo, with "{{font|Serif|'''''Paramount'''''}}" in black script in a {{color|mediumblue|light blue}} circle like the other Paramount logos, and the "A Gulf + Western Company" byline at the bottom in {{color|mediumblue|light blue}}. It begins to zoom in, as the stars (which are followed by light trail-streaks) and byline zoom past, and both the mountain and circle grow bigger until the camera is literally right on top of the peak of the mountain, with "{{font|Serif|'''''Paramount'''''}}" centering in, filling the middle of the screen. When the peak hits the bottom and "{{font|Serif|'''''Paramount'''''}}" fits the center, "{{font|Serif|'''''Paramount'''''}}" begins to shine. A very bright flash follows, and it dies down to reveal the Paramount script logo in {{color|blue}} and a small "VIDEO" shining a bit between two {{color|blue}} lines.
-==== Availability ====
-Rare, as this logo was only used for less than a year.
-*Seen on certain 2002 Paramount Home Video VHS releases from the time frame, such as ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories'', ''The Sum of All Fears'', ''Lucky Break'', some prints of ''Vanilla Sky'', ''MTV Yoga'', ''Crossroads'', ''Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music'', ''The Day Reagan Was Shot'', ''Damaged Care'', ''Bleacher Bums'', ''My Horrible Year!'', the demo VHS tapes of ''Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash'' and ''Hey Arnold!: The Movie'', all 3 ''Jackass'' volumes, and ''Rugrats Christmas''. Some 2002 releases, strangely, such as ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween'', ''9/11: The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition'', ''Rugrats Halloween'', and the Special Edition VHS release of ''Rat Race'', have this logo's print version on the spine but do not have this logo on the tape, as they use the 5th logo instead.
-*Some prints of ''Changing Lanes'' do have this logo, but it cuts to the 1995 warning screen instead of the 2002 one (this is probably due to the fact that some prints use the previous Feature Presentation screen instead of this one).
+'''Variants:'''
-==== Editor's Note ====
+* A <u>B&W variant</u> exists.
-A worthy successor to the 5th logo, even if it was short-lived.
+* A slightly longer variant also exists, which <u>starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo</u>. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal.
+* <u>At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of ''The Devonsville Terror''</u>, the animation is slowed down but plays as normal until all that's left is "Paramount" and the mountain, when the logo freezes in place and the rest of the music is heard. It's unknown if this was used on any home media releases of the film, or any others. It's also possible that Sci-Fi Channel intentionally did this to hide any home video references.
+'''Technique:''' Backlit cel animation by Editel Video in Los Angeles, California.
-===8th Logo (2002-2006)===
+'''Audio:''' A building set of synthesized strings, ending in a new-age synthesizer tune. Composed by Rick Krizman.
-Paramount DVD (2002-2003)Paramount Home Entertainment (2003)
+'''Audio Variant:''' On <u>the 1983 RCA CED videodisc release of ''An Evening with Robin Williams''</u>, this follows the [[RCA SelectaVision]] logo, but it is silent.
-==== Nicknames ====
-"CGI Mountain III", "Ultra Majestic Mountain II", "Ultra Majestic Paramount II", "2000s Mountain"
+'''Availability:''' This is a very infrequent logo.
-==== Logo ====
+* At the time, most Paramount films used the logo used on the film, but most television series (such as ''Star Trek'', with the exception of the 1984 Television Classics LaserDisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie", which uses no logo), comedy specials (such as ''Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1'' and ''Eddie Murphy: Delirious''), and licensed material (such as ''Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'' and ''The Adventures of the American Rabbit'') have this logo.
-Same as the 2002 movie logo, but it's videotaped and zoomed out (also known as open-matte). Releases from 2002 to 2003 used the 90th Anniversary logo, while releases from 2003 onward use the standard one.
+* It is also preserved on most prints of the 1982 VHS release of ''Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol'' (the earliest prints, from around 1982 to early 1983, are confirmed to not have this), and a 1990 reprint of it also retains this logo.
+* It is also preserved on the 1992 release of ''A Dog of Flanders'' (along with the warning that preceded it), also likely a reprint itself.
+* The B&W variant of this logo can be found on the VHS release of ''The Untouchables'' pilot "Scarface Mob" and ''Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back'', respectively.
+* This is also seen on the early 1990s re-release of ''Strong Kids, Safe Kids''.
+* Other releases that have this include films Paramount issued under license from [[Atlantic Releasing Corporation]] (starting with ''Teen Wolf'' and ending with ''Extremities'') and tapes of episodes of the drama ''Call to Glory''.
+* This logo, as well as the multi-colored copyright warning, are also intact on the 1991 VHS print of [[Toho Co., Ltd.|Toho Entertainment]]'s ''The Wizard Of Oz'' (1982).
+* Paramount Video also produced the first two seasons of ''Brothers'', a sitcom which aired on Showtime from 1984 to 1989.
+** As such, this was seen on episodes from those seasons, while the final two seasons would be produced by [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]].
+'''Legacy:''' This logo is a favorite of many, thanks to its music and animation.
-==== Variant ====
-There is a shorter version which stars with the stars zooming down in the clouds.
+===4th Logo (April 20, 1987-April 24, 2007, mid-2010s in Asian VCDs, March 2014 in Indonesia)=== <!-- September 29, 2014 date tentative -->
-FX/SFX: Same as its movie counterpart.
+<tabber>
+Images=
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="170">
+Paramount Home Video (1987).png
+Paramount Home Video (1988).png
+Paramount Home Video (1989).png
+Paramount Home Video (1994).png
+Paramount Home Video (1995, v1).png
+Paramount Home Video (1995, v2).png
+Paramount Home Video (1995, v3).png
+Paramount Home Video (2000) (DVD).png|NTSC DVD variant
+Paramount Home Video (2000) (PAL).png|PAL DVD variant
+</gallery>
+|-|
+Videos=
+{{YouTube|id=MjceeZJ1kZw|id2=ctVLy5yHAp8|id3=svdkQpdCNxA|id4=UTweKyvAoiE|id5=5mF3ogZmePc|id6=W0ER2ccZe8E}}
+</tabber>
+'''Visuals:''' As the logo fades in, there is a model of the mountain from before with a CGI lake in front of it and a light blue/yellow gradient sky with a yellow sunset behind it. As the sky darkens, the camera zooms towards the mountain as 22 silver CGI stars fly from the bottom left and encircle the mountain. The "Paramount" script, redone with a shiny silver finish, then fades in on the peak of the mountain, along with a registered trademark symbol. One of the three bylines (as seen below) fades in below. This is basically the same as the theatrical logo of the era, except that the logo is videotaped; the picture quality is somewhat sharper and the color scheme is brighter than normal.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-None.
+'''Bylines:'''
-==== Availability ====
+* April 20, 1987-August 25, 1989: "A Gulf + Western Company". 1987 releases used the 75th Anniversary variant, while 1988-89 releases used the standard version.
-Fairly common. This was used as another de-facto home video logo.
+* September 7, 1989-May 9, 1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline fades in. 1989-90 releases had the byline and line above it in {{color|gold}}, while 1990-95 releases had them in white.
-* The 90th Anniversary version is used on 2002 VHS and DVD releases such as ''Trading Places'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories'', ''MTV Yoga'', ''Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music'', ''The Day Reagan Was Shot'', ''Flashdance'', ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (where this oddly plasters the 1999 Paramount logo that the film used), ''Black Sheep'', ''Vanilla Sky'', ''Major League'', ''Damaged Care'', ''Bleacher Bums'', ''My Horrible Year!'', all 3 ''Jackass'' volumes, and ''Rugrats Christmas''.
+*June 13, 1995-April 24, 2007: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 "Wigga Wigga" font) with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.
-* The standard version is used on almost every Paramount VHS released from 2003 onwards. It also appears on the European versions of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' DVDs ''Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies'' and ''Halloween''.
-* The standard version plasters the 90th Anniversary variant of the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo on the 2003 VHS releases of ''Extreme Ops'', ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'', ''Star Trek: Nemesis'', ''Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure'', and ''The Hours''.
+'''Trivia:''' Even though Paramount debuted an updated version of their movie logo in 1999, they still used the 1995 variant for home video releases and television films.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-Same as its movie counterpart.
+'''Variants:'''
-==Paramount DVD==
+* On occasion, the logo begins much earlier than the theatrical variant.
+* <u>Like its parent logo, at the end of VHS releases</u>, only the finished product is seen, with the clouds moving in the background. This is also used as part of a series of bumpers placed before trailers on <u>several Paramount tapes from 1999 to 2002</u> (more on that [[Paramount Home Entertainment (Home Video Bumpers)|here]]).
+* An <u>early Viacom byline</u> uses the Gulf + Western/Paramount Communications variant, but when "A VIACOM COMPANY" fades in, the entire logo freezes.
+* Starting in <u>the mid-1990s</u>, the cloud background is slightly changed, like with its parent logo.
+* A short version of this logo exists, which can be found on <u>screener VHS releases from Paramount</u>.
+* A <u>telecined version</u> also exists, as evidenced by the video-generated fade-ins and fade-outs. It starts with an almost fully static logo (only the clouds move); after a few seconds, the animation starts normally. The color scheme also has a bit of a {{color|saddlebrown|brownish/earthy}} tone to it. This variant can be seen on 1990-2001 VHS releases primarily from Nickelodeon (but not always), such as <u>''Peanuts'' VHS releases</u>, <u>''Eureeka's Castle: Wide Awake at Eureeka's Castle''</u> (1997 release, at the beginning), <u>''The Adventures of Corduroy: The Dinosaur Egg''</u>, <u>''Gullah Gullah Island: Dance Along with the Daise Family''</u>, <u>the Paramount Family Favorites release of ''Charlotte's Web'' (1973)</u>, <u>''Rugrats: A Rugrats Vacation''</u> (at the end), <u>''Rugrats: Dr. Tommy Pickles''</u>, <u>''Gullah Gullah Island: Christmas''</u> (at the beginning of the promotional copy), <u>''Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Treasure Hunt''</u>, <u>''Rugrats: Make Room for Dil''</u>, <u>''Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Pajama Party''</u> (later printings), <u>''Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie''</u> (at the beginning), <u>''Better Off Dead''</u> (the 2000 release) and <u>''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye''</u>.
+* <u>Some tapes with the Viacom variant</u> have the clouds become still once the Viacom byline appears.
+* A still version also exists, which is seen at <u>the end of some VHS releases</u>. This version is also preserved on <u>the 2002 DVD releases of ''Rugrats: Decade in Diapers''</u> and <u>''SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies''</u> and <u>the 1992 U.S. VHS release of ''Demonic Toys''</u> (before the [[Full Moon Features|Full Moon]] logo).
+* The Viacom variant is slightly shifted up on <u>some PAL DVD releases</u>.
+* This logo is also spotted at the end of some trailers on <u>screener VHS tapes from the company</u>. Here, the logo is already formed, but there's copyright info under the mountain. The copyright info then fades out after a few seconds to make room for the byline to fade in.
+'''Technique:'''  A mixture of CGI animation and live-action, designed and composited by Jay Jacoby of Studio Productions (now Flip Your Lid Animation). The CGI stars were created by David Sieg at Omnibus/Abel on a III Foonly F1 computer, and the mountain scenery was a physical model created and filmed by Apogee, Inc.
-===1st Logo (2002)===
+'''Audio:''' None or the opening theme of the movie.
-Paramount DVD (2002)Nickname: "CGI Disc Mountain"
+'''Audio Variants:'''
-<br />
+* On <u>the U.S. VHS releases of ''Fatal Attraction''</u> (plastering the 75th Anniversary logo) and <u>''The Blue Iguana''</u>, the 1987 [[Paramount Pictures]] fanfare is heard.
-{{Gallery | align =center | mode =packed | height =200px | width = | File: Paramount DVD 2002.jpeg|  }}
+* <u>At the end of the ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' 1997 U.S. VHS release</u>, <u>the promotional copies of ''Dora the Explorer: Dora's Backpack Adventure''</u> and <u>''Boohbah: Comfy Armchair''</u>, and <u>one promo on the 1995 screener VHS of ''Drop Zone''</u>, the 1989 "distorted" version of the 1987 [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]] theme is heard.
-<center>
+* On <u>most Paramount VCD releases in Indonesia released by [[Movieline Entertainment]]</u>, quiet lawn grass sprinkler noises (which sounds like clock ticks or footsteps) are heard throughout the logo. This is actually the opening audio of the film ''Election'', suggesting the logo was taken directly from that film.
-<youtube width="220" height=165>{{{yIKs-PD1hxk}}}</youtube>
-</center>
+'''Availability:'''
-==== Logo ====
+* This was used as a de-facto home video logo; it is also one of the most frequently used logos, as it can be seen on every VHS, Beta, and LaserDisc release from that period - this also includes television series (such as the original ''Star Trek''), comedy specials, and third-party acquisitions like ''Nutcracker: The Motion Picture'' (where this plasters the original [[Atlantic Releasing Corporation]] logo), ''Teen Wolf Too'', ''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'', and titles licensed from [[The Rank Organisation]] (such as ''The Red Shoes'').
-We see the 1986-2002 Paramount logo (with the Viacom byline) already formed. However, the "Paramount" text is black and a disc is behind the mountain. "DVD" is below the mountain, with the Viacom byline below that.
+* Many VHS releases should have either the 75th Anniversary print logo, or the standard Gulf+Western print logo (with no mention of "HOME VIDEO") on the packaging and labels.
+* The 75th Anniversary logo also plasters over the "Blue Mountain" logo on the 1987 U.S. VHS releases of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''Crocodile Dundee'', ''Children of a Lesser God'', ''Top Gun'', and ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'', respectively.
+** Meanwhile, the standard Gulf+Western version plasters over the 75th Anniversary logo on the 1988 U.S. VHS releases of ''Beverly Hills Cop II'', ''The Untouchables'', ''Back to the Beach'', ''Fatal Attraction'', and ''Planes, Trains, & Automobiles'', respectively.
+** International VHS releases of these films (all released by [[CIC Video]], with the exception of ''Crocodile Dundee'') will likely have the film's original logo intact.
+* The Paramount Communications variant plasters the standard Gulf+Western version on 1990s VCD prints of ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!''.
+* This is also seen on all 1994-2004 ''Peanuts'' U.S. VHS releases and all Nickelodeon U.S. VHS releases from 1996 to 2003.
+** The 75th Anniversary variant was also seen on a Showtime broadcast of ''Hamburger Hill'' from March 1991.
+* This logo was also seen on the direct-to-video films ''The Little Bear Movie'' and ''Blue's Big Musical Movie'', respectively.
+* This and the [[CBS Home Entertainment|CBS Video]] logo also made appearances on Freevee prints of the ''Touched by an Angel'' episodes "The Christmas Gift" and "Beautiful Dreamer".
+* It is also seen at the start of VHS releases and non-USA Network airings of TV movies from [[Wilshire Court Productions]] of the era.
+* It can also be found on a number of demo VHS releases from as late as 2007, despite its discontinuation on commercial releases in 2003.
+** These include ''George Lopez: Why You Crying?'', ''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks: Piggley Gets Into Trouble'', and ''Wonder Pets!: Save The Wonder Pets!'', released in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively.
+* This will occasionally appear before the opening previews on certain VHS releases.
+** One example of this is the Paramount reissue of ''Rugrats: A Baby's Gotta Do What a Baby's Gotta Do'' and some other Nickelodeon tapes from 1996.
+* This logo is also preserved on [[Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp.|Echo Bridge Home Entertainment]]'s DVD releases of ''Puppet Master 5'' and the Mexican DVD release of ''Demonic Toys'', each before the [[Full Moon Features|Full Moon]] logo, most likely due to older VHS masters being used.
+* The Viacom version was also spotted at the start of Disney Channel/ABC Family (now Freeform) airings of ''Teen Witch'' ([[Trans World Entertainment]] struck a deal with Viacom in the early 90s for TV distribution of their films, with Paramount subsequently inheriting those rights. This syndication deal also applied to Trans World's successors, [[Epic Productions]] and [[Vision P.D.G. International|Vision International]].) as well as [[Trifecta Entertainment & Media|Trifecta]]'s syndicated prints of ''There Goes the Neighborhood'' and ''Another 48. Hrs'', respectively, among others.
+* The version with the Paramount Television fanfare is also preserved at the end of the 2004 U.S. VHS release of ''Boohbah: Comfy Armchair'', following the [[PBS Kids]] Video logo.
+** It is also seen at the end of the 1997 U.S. VHS release of ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown''.
+* Depending on the country, Paramount's VCD releases in Asian territories still used this logo until the mid-2010s, in the case of Indonesian VCD releases, this logo was used until 2014, and is shown after the [[Movieline Entertainment]] logo usually before the previews.
+===5th Logo (November 15, 1993<!--This is a best guess given how the promotion at the time was announced to last from "mid-November to mid-December 1993", see the Billboard magazine from 7/17/93 for more info-->)===
-==== FX/SFX ====
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
-None.
+Paramount Home Video (1993).png
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=GWz65WSJVDw}}
+'''Visuals:''' On a black background with {{color|blue}} filmstrips, the Paramount script is seen being written in a {{color|gold}} color in its trademark font. As this is occurring, the background opens up in segments to reveal the 1986 Paramount logo, without a byline and the stars in a {{color|gold|light gold}} color.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-The opening theme of the TV spot.
+'''Technique:''' CGI animation.
-==== Availability ====
-Extinct. Was seen on a 2002 TV spot for the DVD release of ''Rat Race''. It is unknown if this appeared anywhere else, but don't expect to see an animated variant on early Paramount DVDs as it never existed nor was used; early Paramount DVDs at the beginning jump to the FBI Warnings instead.
+'''Audio:''' A male announcer (Gene McGarr) says "Paramount Pictures, bringing you the finest in holiday entertainment, and the best of the new year". All of this is said against a bombastic fanfare, an excerpt from the end theme of ''The Untouchables'' (the 1987 movie), composed by Ennio Morricone.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-Its existence was debated for a while, since its rushed look does make it look like a fanmade logo.
+'''Availability:'''
-===2nd Logo (January 7, 2003-March 5, 2019)===
+* This logo was seen on three out of four VHS releases by the company in late 1993 that were available in McDonald's restaurants; these releases included ''Charlotte's Web'', ''Ghost'', and ''The Addams Family'', respectively. It is played following a preview reel for releases for the 1993 holiday season (and to promote Paramount's films ''Addams Family Values'' and ''Wayne's World 2'', as both films released that season).
-Paramount DVD (2002)Paramount DVD (Menu Option)
+* The fourth VHS, ''Wayne's World'', used the previously-viewed rental cassette's master and therefore doesn't use this.
+==Paramount Home Entertainment==
-==== Nicknames ====
+===1st Logo (November 12, 1996)===
-"CGI Disc Mountain II", "Dark Mountain of Steel", "Dark Perumount"
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Paramount Home Video (1996, Source - VHS Release of Mission- Impossible).png
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=5p9V6EdsH54}}
+'''Visuals:''' Over a {{color|gold}} background, the Paramount script moves into its usual position onto the company's print logo, which is engraved onto the background, while the camera zooms out. Once the text settles, the Viacom "Wigga-Wigga" byline fades in underneath.
-==== Logo ====
-It starts off with the 2002 Paramount logo animation with the stars flying through the clouds, the zoom out of the "Paramount" script, and the stars coming in and circling around the mountain. When we are at a comfortable distance, a DVD disc flies in from the bottom, glides and settles behind the summit and the Paramount script. Then, a bright flash underneath the peak brings forth "DVD" with a line below it, and the Viacom byline (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo) below the line. The background fades to black, and a white laser scans the disc in a downward motion, turning the entire DVD Paramountain silver. The finished product almost resembles the Paramount DVD print logo.
+'''Technique:''' CGI animation.
-==== Trivia ====
-This logo appears on the original Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment DVD releases of ''The Avengers'' and ''Iron Man 3'', alongside the Marvel logo. This is because The Walt Disney Company (owner of the films' production company Marvel Studios) and Viacom came to an agreement for the films' distribution to transfer from Paramount Pictures to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, but Paramount still had two films left in their six-movie contract with Marvel. So, Paramount's logo would appear on the films and promotional material.
+'''Audio:''' A male announcer (Nick Tate) says "Paramount Pictures, the best show in town!" In the background, the same music from the 5th Paramount Home Video logo (albeit abridged) is heard.
-==== Variant ====
-At the end of the logo, a menu would appear with two selections which are "PREVIEWS" and "MAIN MENU", both of which would take you there. When either one was selected, the Paramount logo fades out, with the selections disappearing a second afterward. This was seen on some early DVD releases with this logo, such as ''The Italian Job'' (2003 version), ''How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'', ''Rugrats Go Wild!'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete First Season'', ''The Ren & Stimpy Show: The First and Second Seasons'' and ''All Grown Up: Lucky 13'' (the last release to use this variant).
+'''Audio Trivia:''' The tagline is a nod to Paramount's slogan in the 1920s: "If it's a Paramount picture, it's the best show in town."
-==== FX/SFX ====
-The DVD disc gliding on the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo animation.
+'''Availability:'''  Only seen on the original North American VHS release (both U.S. and Canadian prints) of ''Mission: Impossible''. As with the previous logo, this follows a preview reel for releases during the 1996 holiday season.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-It starts off silent, but when the stars fly by some whooshing sounds are heard, culminating in a synthesized explosion effect with a thunderclap. As the white laser scans down, a humming sound can be heard.
-==== Music/Sounds Variant ====
+===2nd Logo (Early 1998-1999)===
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
-On the post-menu-selection variation, a soft "bong" is heard as the logo fades out, followed by a whirling sound when the selections disappear.
+Paramount Pictures 1998.jpeg
+</gallery>
+'''Visuals:''' Over a cloudy sunset background is a different CGI rendition of the famed Paramountain; it's covered with snow and ice, with the Paramount script and stars already formed on top of it, albeit without a byline. The camera slowly zooms in and rotates around the logo, showing the viewer the back of the mountain as a lens flare flashes.
-==== Availability ====
-Very common.
-* It's seen on many post-2003 DVD releases released by the company, starting with the 2003 DVD release of ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' (even though the print logo on the cover has "90th Anniversary" tacked on to it).
-* This logo was seen on DVD releases of Paramount Television-owned series from 2003 to 2006 (when the rights went to CBS Home Entertainment after Viacom and CBS Corporation became separate companies), such as the 2004 releases of season 1 of ''Happy Days'', and season 1 of ''The Andy Griffith Show'' and the 2005 release of season 2 of the latter.
-* After 2004 on Nickelodeon TV shows on DVD, this logo doesn't show up.
-* Some DVD releases have "90th Anniversary" added on to this logo's print version, but they just contain the normal logo. Examples of this are the 2002 DVD releases of ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories'', ''Flashdance'', ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', ''Black Sheep'', ''Vanilla Sky'', and ''Trading Places''. This logo continued to be used until 2019, as seen on such releases as ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown'', ''Project Almanac'', ''Boyhood'', ''The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'', ''The Gambler'' (the Mark Wahlberg version), and ''Interstellar'', even though Paramount Pictures debuted a new logo in 2011.
-* The last release to use this logo was Instant Family, released on March 5, 2019.
+'''Trivia:''' This logo appears to be the base for the [[Paramount Classics]] logo, which virtually has the same animation albeit in reverse.
-==== Editor's Note ====
-Even though Viacom changed their byline in 2010, and the Paramount logo in 2011, this logo continued to be used throughout the 2010s. However, it is not a favorite of some since you cannot bypass this logo, either with the Menu, Fast Forward, or Skip buttons on the majority of the company's DVD output.
+'''Variant:''' Paramount adapted this logo for use on <u>two trailers</u> (see [[Paramount Pictures/Trailer Variations|here]] for more details). This logo appears to be filmed, so it's possible it was intended to be a new theatrical logo but ended up being unused for that purpose (since Paramount re-did their 1986 logo in 1999).
-== Paramount High Definition (2006-March 5, 2019)==
+'''Technique:''' CGI created by Pittard Sullivan.
-Paramount High Definition (2006)
+'''Audio:''' A majestic orchestral fanfare ("The Crimson Gump" from the score of ''Forrest Gump'', composed by Alan Silvestri) is heard throughout as Jim Cummings intones:
-==== Nicknames ====
+* Early 1998: "In celebration of the end of one millennium and the dawn of another, Paramount Pictures is preparing to bring to movie lovers everywhere a collection of films that symbolize the best in its movie-making history..."
-"Digital Mountain", "From SD to HD", "Digital Paramount"
+* 1998-1999: "...In celebration of the end of one century and the dawn of another...Paramount Pictures is proud to present a collection of films that symbolize the best in its movie-making history..."
+'''Availability:'''  This was only ever used on Paramount's "Millennium Collection" video trailer, which can be seen on the VHS releases of ''In & Out'', ''Sliding Doors'', ''Hard Rain'', ''A Simple Plan'', ''Event Horizon'', ''Switchback'', ''Twilight'' (1998), and ''A Smile Like Yours''.
-==== Logo ====
-We first see the effect of a television getting switched on, zooming out from one of the stars and transitioning to the middle of the 2002 Paramount logo in a poor image quality. When the star reaches the mountain's peak, two white lines appear and move across the picture vertically from the center, sharpening the picture and forming the silver text:
+===3rd Logo (May 7, 2002-December 27, 2008)===
-  HIGH<br>
+<tabber>
-    DEFINITION
+Images=
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="170">
+Paramount 90th Anniversary 2002.jpeg|Fullscreen version
+Paramount Home Video (2002).png
+Paramount Home Video (2002) (Widescreen).png|Widescreen version
+Paramount Home Entertainment (2003).png|Fullscreen videotaped version
+Paramount Home Entertainment (2003) (Filmed).png|Fullscreen filmed version
+Paramount Home Entertainment (2003) (Widescreen).png|Widescreen version
+Paramount Network Television (2003).png|4:3 center-cut version
+</gallery>
+|-|
+Videos=
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+</tabber>
+'''Visuals:''' The camera pans down from a starry sky to a set of clouds. As the camera slowly zooms backwards, a few cometoid objects fly down and reveal themselves as the trademark Paramount stars that zoom past the camera. The familiar Paramount script (with a gold border) zooms out to show the camera had been watching a reflection (which fades to white) the entire time as a total of 22 stars shoot past the script and encircle the mountain (which is now more realistic in appearance and is missing the snow) on a dusk background. The script continues to zoom out before taking its place at the peak of the mountain. The Viacom byline (once again, with a line above) then fades in below the logo.
-which zooms out into place. The Viacom byline (without the line) from the previous three logos fades in below and the HD text shines.
+'''Variants:'''
-==== Trivia ====
+* <u>For the logo's first year, 2002</u>, the words "{{color|#EDD602|'''{{Font|Times New Roman|''90''}}<sup>{{small|''TH''}}</sup> ANNIVERSARY'''}}" in gold, with "{{color|#EDD602|'''{{font|Times New Roman|''90''}}'''}}" bigger and "<sup><small>{{color|#EDD602|'''''TH'''''}}</small></sup>" smaller and on the top right of "{{color|#EDD602|'''{{font|Times New Roman|''90''}}'''}}" and "{{color|#EDD602|'''ANNIVERSARY'''}}" below, fade in with the Viacom byline, sandwiched between the peak of the mountain. The trademark symbol ("™") is used in place of the registered trademark symbol ("®") in this variation. The logo's general color scheme is brighter and more cartoonish. One star at the beginning of the logo is absent, the clouds in the sky and around the mountain appear less realistic (with the ones around the mountain looking flatter compared to the later version), and the sky background in the second half appears to be stretched vertically (meaning that this variant was possibly animated for 4:3 screens; however, on ''We Were Soldiers'', which was the first film to use the 90th Anniversary logo, the sky background is more or less unaltered). The stars have a stronger motion blur effect, and some of them in the final shot look darker. The stars in the final shot are somewhat off-center from the rest of the mountain, and there is also an error during the portion where the script zooms back, in which some of the stars seem to jump out of the reflection of the text. Also, the trademark symbol is yellow instead of white.
-This logo appears on the original Disney Blu-ray releases of ''The Avengers'' and ''Iron Man 3'' (see the Trivia section for the previous logo).
+** The 90th Anniversary variant was reanimated to look more natural on <u>''Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure''</u>, with the trademark symbol also being changed to white.
+* <u>A shorter version</u> also exists, which starts with the stars zooming down through the clouds.
+* In rare cases, the logo does not fade in or out. An example of this is <u>the 2005 U.S. VHS release of ''Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!''</u>.
+* A widescreen version exists. This can be seen on <u>widescreen releases from Paramount</u>.
+* A <u>filmed version of the 2003 variant</u> exists.
+* <u>At the end of VHS releases</u>, the finished product is seen, with the clouds moving westward in the background.
+* On <u>the 2005 U.S. VHS release of ''Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!''</u>, the logo is zoomed in, like the Paramount Network Television logo.
+'''Technique:''' CGI animation directed by Peter Schluter at BUF Compagnie, believed to have been done on one of BUF's 75 Silicon Graphics O2 units.
-==== FX/SFX ====
-The television static, the zooming away from the star, and the revelation of the text.
+'''Audio:''' None or the opening theme of the movie.
-==== Music/Sounds ====
-Some television static sound effects and a few loud whooshes and shining sounds.
+'''Audio Variants:'''
-==== Availability ====
+* <u>At the end of the 2005 U.S. VHS release of ''Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!''</u>, the 1989 version of the 1987 [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]] theme is heard. However, it is not heard on the demo version of the U.S. VHS release thereof.
-Current and common. It's currently seen on Paramount's Blu-ray releases.
+* <u>''Mean Girls''</u> uses the ''Paramount on Parade'' fanfare.
-* It was also seen on Paramount HD-DVD releases from 2006 to 2008, such as ''Four Brothers'' and The Italian Job (2003).
-* Starting sometime in 2007, Paramount's high definition releases were being exclusive to HD-DVD.
-* When Toshiba announced they would discontinue HD-DVD, Paramount Home Media Distribution, like all other home media companies, became Blu-ray only.
-* Their first film on Blu-ray since HD-DVD's discontinuation was ''The Spiderwick Chronicles''.
-* This logo can be found on releases with the print version of this logo on the box art.
-* It was also found on the 2008 Blu-ray release of ''Last Holiday'', in which the print logo was absent on the box art, meaning this logo is still in use, but no longer a has print counterpart.
-* This logo does not appear on UHD 4K Blu-ray Discs, as they use the 2011-present film logo.
-* The last release to use this logo was ''Instant Family'', released on March 5, 2019.
+'''Availability:''' This logo was used as another de-facto home video logo.
-====Editor's Note====
+* The 90th Anniversary version can be found on 2002 VHS and DVD releases such as ''Trading Places'', ''Little Bear: Campfire Tales'', ''Blue's Clues: Reading with Blue'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories'', ''MTV Yoga'', ''Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music'', ''The Day Reagan Was Shot'', ''Flashdance'', ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (on the VHS release only, where this plasters the 1999 Paramount logo that the film uses, the Region 2 DVD keeps this logo intact before the menu), ''Black Sheep'', ''Vanilla Sky'', ''Major League'', ''Damaged Care'', ''Bleacher Bums'', ''My Horrible Year!'', all 3 ''Jackass'' volumes, ''Rugrats Christmas'', ''Clockstoppers'', ''Hey Arnold!: The Movie'', and ''K-19: The Widowmaker'', respectively.
-Same as the previous logo, though there's nothing really simple nor surprising about this.
+* The standard version can be found on almost every Paramount VHS released from 2003 onwards.
+** It can also be found on the European versions of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' DVD releases of ''Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies'' and ''Halloween'', respectively.
+* The standard version also plasters the 90th Anniversary variant of the 2002 Paramount Pictures logo on the 2003 VHS releases of ''Extreme Ops'', ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'', ''Star Trek: Nemesis'', ''Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure'', ''Jackass: The Movie'', and ''The Hours'', respectively.
+* The zoomed-in version as well as the closing version with the Paramount Television fanfare was only seen on the 2005 U.S. VHS release of ''Dora the Explorer: It's a Party!''.
+* The closing version is seen at the end of all Paramount VHS releases from 2002-2006.
+* Demo tapes still used this logo through the end of 2008 (a few demo tapes from 2004-2007 used the 4th logo), while VCD releases continued using this logo until 2007 (such as the 2007 VCD of ''Flushed Away'' (2006)).
+* The standard version also makes a surprise appearance on the 2009 Australian DVD release of ''Charlie & Boots''.
-==== Final Note ====
+==Final Note==
+Current PHE releases use the 2011-present [[Paramount Pictures]] logo without any modifications.
-Beginning with the release of ''Bumblebee'', all Paramount DVDs and Blu-rays began using the 2011-present theatrical logo.
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