Hokushin Audio Visual (UK)

Logo: On a white background, two red lines move towards the middle of the screen from opposite directions, peaking to make two small mirrored mountains that form an "M". A "V" moves downward from the top of the screen and lines up with the "M". Underneath, in quick sucession, is the name "VIDEO MOVIES" with each letter spelled out one by one. Following that is another red line swiped from left to right and the byline "from Hokushin" zooming in under the line.

Early Variant: The background of this logo is red, the lines and name are in yellow, and the "from Hokushin" byline is in white. This logo is pre-empted by a blue warning screen.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The lines forming the top logo, lettering, underline, and the zoom-in of the byline are done in quick succession. But what that's bad, they stole the music from an Italian news show instead of their own fanfare, and they've used the same melody from what they make so much VHS releases!

Music/Sounds/Voice-over: The Telegiornale (now TG1) fanfare used since 1954.

The voiceover in the early variant (actually Joe Gatt, Hokushin Audio Visual's founder himself) has a Maltese accent and mentions that the VHS is a "special arrangement of the producer and the distributor".

The later one has a voiceover in which a man with a British accent is reading over a VHS legal disclaimer.

Availability: Rare. Seen on 1970s-1980s UK VHS releases of Gregory's Girl, For the Love of Ada, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Buddy Holly Story, Queens of Evil, Going Steady, Shark's Cave, No Place to Hide, Sex Diary, Island of Death, Evil in the Deep, Fatty Finn, Lemon Popsicle, Loose Shoes, Jungle Burger, and Mean Streets.

Scare Factor: None. You must laugh about how they stole

a piece of music from an Italian news reporter, but this is a favourite of many.