Reader's Digest Home Entertainment

Background: Reader's Digest Video (a.k.a. Reader's Digest Home Entertainment, and Reader's Digest Video And Television) was the home video division of American magazine Reader’s Digest.

1st Logo
(1988-1999)

 Logo : On a black background with several colorful lights at the bottom of the screen moving towards the left, a series of rainbow lines drop down at the top of the screen and draw in an alicorn figure. The eye of the atlicorn glows, and it zooms out to the top part of the screen, with lights shooting off its wings, and sparkles appearing on it a lot. We zoom out through an “R”, and the text “Reader’s Digest”, with the “R” extended, and “Reader’s” on top of “Digest” (this was the magazine’s font and logo from 1963 to 2008, although the alicorn figure was dropped in 2001) zooms out underneath the alicorn. A blue bar with "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" wipes in below the text as the clouds clear out into the black-navy blue gradient background. The alicorn continues to sparkle until the logo fades out.

 Variants :
 * On UK releases, "VIDEO" wipes in below the text.
 * Beginning from the mid-90's, after "Digest" wipes in the logo abruptly ends at this point as the alicorn continues to sparkle.

 FX/SFX : Computer Graphics.

 Music/Sounds : A triumphant synth orchestral theme. There is a long whoosh sound as the alicorn zooms out and another whoosh as “Reader’s Digest” appears.

 Music/Sounds Variants :
 * On some releases, the fanfare is modified and sounds more synthesized.
 * On UK releases, a soothing piano/string tune ending with a 3-note horn tune.

 Availability : Seen on a variety of special interest tapes from the era in the US and the UK. It also appeared on some rare tapes of Arthur, Adventures from the Book of Virtues, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures, and Franklin.

 Editor's Notes : None.

2nd Logo
(1997-2007)

 Logo : TBA

 FX/SFX : The parts of the logo zooming in.

 Music/Sounds : A new-age theme with a flute section.

 Availability : Seen on later Reader’s Digest releases.