Video Classics Gold

(1983-1984)
Nickname : "The Brady Bunch of Logos"

Logo : On a black background, a red square is seen, along with a strange still shot of the 1981 Media Home Entertainment logo. It zooms out to the top left corner, and several more logos repeat the same method. After they fill out the borders, the Video Classics Gold logo flips into view. It consists of a all-gold version of the Video Classics print logo, along with "GOLD" written at the bottom in the same font, stuck inside a TV tube that's also made of gold chrome. It flips around a few more times before it zooms in and takes up the entire screen before zooming back. As it zooms back, the text "AUSTRALIA'S LEADING HOME VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS" appears below in gold, before the logo freezes.

Here's the list of logos you'll see and where they zoom out to:


 * Media Home Entertainment (USA) - 1981 logo, "MEDIA" not fully zoomed in and zooms out to the top-left. Has no Heron Communications byline.
 * Electric Blue (UK) - Consists of the cursive "electric" in ultramarine, and "BLUE" in purple ("BLUE" being between two purple rectangles) over a nude blonde-haired woman who looks like she's holding two kinds of guns (her arms covering her breasts), one blue and one pink, against a white background with blue borders on the side. It zooms out to the top-right. (NOTE: It is not actually a logo-- it is actually the cover of Electric Blue Vol. 001)
 * Sports World Cinema (USA) - Consists of four "C"s, red, yellow, green, and blue, positioned against a background of videos of sports events, such as yachting and skiing. As the logo zooms out to the bottom-left, "Sports World Cinema", in a WindsorDemi font, wipes in.
 * VCL (Germany) - Consists of the brown letters "VCL", in a tall slab-serif font, against a background of the map of the world, only here, the continents are black, the water is white, and there's a pale-blue border surrounding it. This one zooms out to the bottom-right.
 * The Nostalgia Merchant (USA) - Has the same logo, only positioned over a silhouetted image of what appears to be a boy (holding a flag) and his dog on a hill at sunrise. The logo is against a blue background. It zooms out to the bottom-center.
 * Video Classics (Australia) - 2nd logo, only starts at the white line morphing into "Video Classics" with the TV-static fade in. It becomes the pink-outline version when the picture zooms out to the top-center.
 * Wizard Video (USA) - The print version of the logo, has "Wizard Video" stacked rather than in a horizontal line, and colored red in text against a black background, and zooms out to the center-right.
 * Movies at Midnight (Australia) - This one is set against a black-and-dark red background, has "Movies at Midnight" in an 80s-esque cursive font, over an image a black-haired woman, clad in the dark red lingerie, on a black cube covered in the black velvet cloth in between two red sofas. As you'd probably guess, this logo zooms out to the center-left. (NOTE: This is also not an actual logo-- it is the cover for a VHS [and is also the poster for] of "Neon Nights", info also coming from AussieRoadshow)

Variant : A generic version of this logo just has the logo zooming in and flipping a few times, right before it zooms and skews out of frame.

FX/SFX : The logos appearing and zooming out. This might be one of the longest of home video logos in the world ever known, clocking in at just under 50 seconds!

 Music/Sounds : An excerpt of the funky synth-keyboard disco tune "Protopulse" by Trevor Bastow. An announcer says "More quality home entertainment from Video Classics!" before the tune ends. The generic version uses a disco-synth tune that sounds like a cover/remix of "Get Up Action" by Digital Emotion.

 Availability : Extremely rare. It could only be seen on tapes under this sublabel. Sometimes the normal variant is used, sometimes the generic variant is.

Editor's Note : Compared to their normal logo at the time, this is a massive downgrade. The logo design is also rather cumbersome with the color choices.