Turner Home Entertainment

Logo descriptions by wisp2007

Logo captures by wisp2007 and V of Doom

Video captures courtesy of Joseph Sobora (TheRedBaron1985)

Background: Turner Home Entertainment, Inc. was founded on July 29, 1986 by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System to distribute the RKO Radio Pictures library on videocassette and, from 1987 to 1999, license the pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries to MGM/UA Home Video. In 1994, when Turner bought out the New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment studios, Columbia TriStar Home Video sold the distribution rights of New Line Home Video releases to Turner Home Entertainment. Turner Home Entertainment also handles the rights to shows by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network, as well as PBS Home Video releases from 1994-1997. In 1997, a year after Turner merged with Time Warner, Turner Home Entertainment was dissolved into Warner Home Video, although it remained until 1999.

=== 1st Logo (1986) === Logo: On a black background, we see the Turner logo zooming in with the part of the "T" longer. Below "urner" there was "HOME ENTERTAINMENT"

FX/SFX: The zooming.

Music/Sounds: None

Availability: This logo was used as a placeholder. Seen on the 1986 VHS of The Great American Bash.

Editor's Note: The logo looks like it's from the 1970s as the zoom-in is very rough. But this is a placeholder after all.

=== 2nd Logo (1987-1990) === Logo: On a dark red/black gradient background, the words "TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT", in a fancy blue font, fly from the top of the screen, stopping in the middle.

FX/SFX: Cheap all around.

Music/Sounds: A harsh, droning synth. It sounds identical to the music of the U.S.A. Home Video logo.

Availability: Very rare. May probably be seen on RKO HV releases and the original home video release of Laser Mission. Surprisingly, this logo appeared without music during the documentary portion of Starrcade: The Essential Collection, a 2009 DVD set from World Wrestling Entertainment.

=== 3rd Logo (1991-1993) === Nickname: "The Filmstrip"

Logo: On a space background we see a blue filmstrip flying which becomes a blue light. Then the words "TURNER", "HOME" and "ENTERTAINMENT" Turner Home Entertainmentin the same font used in the previous logo and in CGI fly out one by one from the center of the screen and stop in the middle as a grass background appears.

FX/SFX: The filmstrip, the words flying. The space background seems detailed.

Music/Sounds: A chorus tune and a drumbeat, followed by four chorus notes when the words fly.

Music/Sounds Variant: There's also a silent version.

Availability: Rare. Seen on Turner video releases from 1991 to 1993 such as Reflections on Citizen Kane: Fifty Years and Tom & Jerry Kids tapes.

=== 4th Logo (1993-1999) === Nickname: "Turner Mansion"

Logo: Same as the movie logo, only "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PICTURES".

Variants:
 * There is a still version of the logo that appeared on some early releases.
 * Some promos would have the mansion in an oval, just like the print logo.
 * Another promo variant exists where it has the mansion in the oval, but after the animation ends, the Turner Home Entertainment text turns brown just like the Turner Pictures logo. This can be found on the 1996 VHS of Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects.
 * There is another promo variant where it has the regular logo, but it's still, and it has "Also from" above it. It can be found on the 1996 VHS of Classic Jonny Quest.

FX/SFX: Same as the movie logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the movie logo.

Availability: More prolific than the movie logo, but still rare. It can be seen on several early-mid '90s Cartoon Network tapes, which are your best bet as several were released in the channel's early years. New Line Home Video releases from this period, such as Mortal Kombat, Safe Passage, Seven (titled as Sev7n),The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Friday, and The Adventures of Pinocchio. Also seen on 1994-1997 PBS Home Video releases such as Adventures from the Book of Virtues and the Ken Burns documentary Baseball, and on The Swan Princess (an animated film theatrically released by New Line Cinema). The still version is seen on most RKO Video Collection releases from this period, as well as In Search of Dr. Seuss and Yogi Bear's Jellystone Gems.