20th Century Studios Home Entertainment/Summary

Background : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the home entertainment division of 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures when it was was formed from Fox's acquisition of Magnetic Video Corporation, which had been distributing Fox titles on video. It was first known as "20th Century-Fox Video". In 1982, Fox entered into a joint venture with CBS to form "CBS/Fox Video", also launching two sub-labels; "Key Video" (later reactivated as "Key DVD" by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), and "Playhouse Video", which both became inactive in 1991. CBS/Fox Video was renamed "Fox Video" the same year, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998, when Fox Entertainment Group acquired CBS's interest in CBS/Fox and was renamed under its current name as "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment" in 1995, alternating with the Fox Video name until 1998.

20th Century-Fox Video
=== 1st Logo (February-October 1982; 1984) ===

Nickname : "Print Searchlights"

Logo : One by one, four squares zoom in by flipping. These have a white  background with the print logo for 20th Century Fox in blue  with the word "VIDEO" underneath. After the fourth square finishes moving into place, the logos are moved downwards by a cube effect and are replaced by a full screen version of the 20th Century Fox Video logo.

Variant : A still variant also exists.

FX/SFX : The four squares flipping and then the final cube effect.

Cheesy Factor : This logo reeks of Scanimate effects, and the cube effect doesn't even look like one. But at least it resembles a proper home video logo, unlike the American version.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over : The PAL version of the original 1954 CinemaScope extension of the TCF fanfare. During the second half of the fanfare, a male voice-over says: "The following feature is brought to you by 20th Century-Fox Video".

Availability : Ultra rare. This logo was only used in Australia. Some of the tapes that have this are High Anxiety on Betamax and Norma Rae on VHS. One tape that had the still variant was Star Wars. These videos are easy to spot as the cover sports a big blue  or orange  label on the top of the front and back of the video case.

Editor's Note : While this is a rather simple logo, you can at least give credit to TCFV's Australian division for making a proper logo.

=== 3rd Logo (German Variant) (1982) ===



Nicknames : "No Searchlights," "Boring Fox"

Logo : Just the following white text in Arial Black, set upon a black background:

Twentieth Century-Fox Video

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FX/SFX : A fade in and fade out.

Music/Sounds : The 20th Century Fox logo theme.

Availability : This was found on a German Laserdisc of Alien, plastering the film's TCF logo.

Editor's Note : This has even less effort than the American and Australian logos, but at least the Fox searchlights were present there.

CBS/Fox Video
=== 1st Logo (November 1982-July 1983) ===

Nickname : "Stacking Lines", "The Lines"

Logo : Over a white  background, we see before us a dual set of violet  lines stacking upward and downward. Then, six long objects pop in at the top and bottom of the segmented lines, revealing the words:

CBS - FOX

then each letter of the word "VIDEO " pops in one by one below "FOX ".

Variants :
 * A still version appears on the original release of Sophie's Choice.
 * A special animated version was used on PAL releases. Two segmented white curved squares and one segmented red square zoom in and out from the screen. The words "CBS-FOX ", letter by letter, zoom in to the left side of the screen as another segmented white parallelogram zooms in. As it curves, it fills the screen, and the segments of the CBS/Fox logo zoom out from the top and bottom of the screen, while the word "VIDEO" zooms out from the bottom.
 * There is also an alternate variant for educational releases. On a blue -red  gradient background, a light blue  star flashes, and the text "A CBS/FOX VIDEO LEARNING EXPERIENCE" fades in. The words stay for several seconds, and then zoom away inward. While this happens, sets of white lines stack upon each other and form the CBS/Fox logo. A white flash below this forms the word "VIDEO". This variant is nicknamed "Inexperienced".
 * There is a black and white variant. This appears on the 1982 VHS of The Diary of Anne Frank and the 1983 VHS of Modern Times.
 * There is an Australian variant where the logo appears in the corner and Australian television and radio announcer Pete Smith introduces the film. Smith says, "Hello there, congratulations on your choice of a great CBS/Fox film. Before settling back, here are scenes from two films available from the vast CBS/Fox Video library."

FX/SFX : The lines stacking up and down. It differs based on the variant.

Music/Sounds : None.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants :
 * On PAL releases, a high-pitched variant of the original 1954 CinemaScope extension of the TCF fanfare was used.
 * On the "Learning Experience" variant, a female voice-over says: "This has been a CBS/FOX Video Learning Experience".

Availability : Extremely rare. It's been spotted on the original VHS releases of Cabaret, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Thunderbird 6, and the M*A*S*H series finale. First seen on Rocky III, Barbarosa, and reissues of The Boys in the Band, The Billion Dollar Hobo, and Cruising, among others. The "Learning Experience" variant can be found on The CBS/Fox Guide to... tapes, which have been out of print for decades, such as The CBS/Fox Guide to Home Videography and The CBS/Fox Guide to Complete Dog Care among others. The PAL variant was seen on PAL releases from the era, one example is a Betamax tape of Chariots of Fire. It also appears on reissues of Modern Times and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that are packaged in Magnetic Video boxes (and sometimes even have Magnetic labels). The Pete Smith variant was presumably seen on select Australian releases from this era by the company. One of the last releases to use this logo was a 1983 reissue of Rude Boy.

Editor's Note : Those familiar with the later CBS/Fox logos might not expect this, but it's nothing that's too out of place.

=== 2nd Logo (July 1983-November 13, 1984) ===

Nicknames : "Stairways", "Bleachers", "CGI CBS/Fox", "The Triumphant CGI Moving Blue Lines on Dark Granite", "CGI Lines", "The Lines III"

Logo : In a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue, boxed area, we see a mirrored, twin stair-like texture that shines a lot. The "stairs" rotate counter-clockwise and turn out to be the following text in blue with a segmented line between the two words on a black marble background:

<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Impact,sans-serif;font-size:19px;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;">CBS <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;">- <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Impact,sans-serif;font-size:19px;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;">FOX

then the word "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">VIDEO " shines in below "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Impact,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">FOX ", and the whole logo shines with pride.

Trivia :
 * This logo is referenced in a scene in the music video for the song "DVNO" by Justice that also references the Universal Studios logo at the same time.
 * This logo was made by Compugraph on a Bosch FGS-4000 CGI machine.

Variants: There are a few variations of this logo:
 * A black-and-white variation appears on reissues of 1940s-60s films. This variant makes a surprise appearance on the 2000 Image Entertainment DVD of City Lights (1931), which used the video master made for the 1980s Laserdisc issue.
 * On widescreen releases, the logo would zoom out to a screen with two rectangles, one on the left and one on the right, on an almond-staged <span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">orange /<span style="color:rgb(171,23,179);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">purple  background, and the two rectangles on the sides would expand, and "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:16px;">SPECIAL WIDESCREEN EDITION " is below the screen on the stage.
 * There may be either the words "STEREO", "STEREO SURROUND", the Dolby Surround logo, the Ultra Stereo logo or the Chace Surround Stereo logo appearing in the bottom left corner. The Dolby Surround variant can be found on the original VHS releases of Die Hard, The Abyss, Vital Signs, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Die Hard 2, Pacific Heights, Marked for Death, Predator 2, and Edward Scissorhands, while the Chace Surround Stereo variant is extremely rare and can be found on the original VHS release of State Fair. The Ultra Stereo version is rare and can be found on the VHS releases of Frankenstein Unbound, Survival Quest, Mindgames, and Satisfaction.
 * Around the time from just before CBS/Fox started printing their tapes at Rank Video Services America, during the FBI Warning screen, which appears on the beginning of such tapes at that time, a still version of this logo appears a couple of times, staying on the screen for about five seconds before cutting back to the warning. This has been spotted on late 1988-early 1990 prints of Licence to Kill, Iron Eagle, Die Hard, Magic Memories on Ice, The Mighty Quinn, The January Man, The Abyss, Commando, In Like Flint, Broadcast News, Carousel, and Billy Joel: The Video Album, Vol. 1.
 * An almost still logo where the logo shines appears on the 1990 video release of Memories of Me and the 1991 video release of Working Trash.
 * Another near-still version that starts at the last part of the logo exists, and was used on CBS-FOX-distributed Media Home Entertainment releases.
 * On the demo VHS of The Living Daylights, the logo fades out early.
 * The standard version (matted to widescreen) makes a strange appearance on the 2000 Image Entertainment DVD of The Twelve Chairs.
 * An entirely still version was seen on the 1984 VHS of The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly.

FX/SFX : "CBS-FOX" rotating, "VIDEO" fading. This is pretty advanced stuff for the 1980s, and it still holds up moderately well today.

Music/Sounds : Same as the 2nd logo, but remixed in stereo (the 2nd logo had it in mono), therefore sounding slightly more powerful than before.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants :
 * On the widescreen variant, a big "WHOOSH" sound is heard at the beginning if listening under stereo, the whoosh pans from right to left, then another whoosh when the side rectangles expand, then a thunderclap at the end also if listening under stereo, the thunderclap pans from the left side to the right.
 * On the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly version, and the 1990 VHS of The Sound of Music, this logo is silent.
 * At the end of PAL tapes in Australia, there is a variant with a voice-over from Channel Seven’s Don Rainsford, who says "Please rewind this cassette before returning it to your video library" at the end.
 * Another variant used Chelsea Brown saying "Could you please rewind your cassette before returning it to your video library?". Of the two voiceovers, the Brown variant is harder to find.
 * On the demo VHS of The Living Daylights, the title song by a-ha plays.

Availability : Very common. This should be easy to find on VHS tapes available in second-hand shops, charity shops and on Amazon and eBay.
 * Can also be seen on early-to-mid 1991 Media Home Entertainment releases and BBC Video releases.
 * The widescreen version can be found on the first prints of the widescreen editions of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (preceded on both tapes by the widescreen version of the 1991 Fox Video logo) and all the DVDs from Bruce Lee's "Master Collection" box set, except Bruce Lee: The Legend.
 * The Dolby Surround variant can be found on the original VHS releases of Die Hard, The Abyss, The War of the Roses, Vital Signs, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Young Guns II, Die Hard 2, Pacific Heights, Marked for Death, Predator 2, and Edward Scissorhands.
 * The Chace Surround Stereo variant is extremely rare and can be found on the original VHS release of State Fair and a 1990 VHS of Planet of the Apes.
 * The last releases to use this were FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue, Our Friend Martin and Walking with Dinosaurs.
 * The "STEREO" text version can be seen on the 1995 Hong Kong laserdisc of Return of the Jedi (plastering the 1981 20th Century Fox logo).
 * This is retained on the 1994 UK VHS releases of the Star Wars trilogy, but not the 1992 or 1995 US releases, despite showing the logo on the covers and labels of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. However, their laserdisc counterparts actually use this logo.
 * The Ultra Stereo version is rare and can be found on the VHS releases of Satisfaction, Mindgames, Survival Quest, and Frankenstein Unbound.
 * A rare post-1991 solo appearance happens on the 1992 VHS of Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child, where it's not even accompanied by the BBC Video logo.
 * Strangely, this does not appear on the 1998 VHS of Rusty: The Great Rescue, despite the print logo appearing on the packaging and tape label.
 * Also seen on Media Home Entertainment releases from the early part of 1991 such as The Applegates and Sonny Boy, among others.
 * Strangely, it appears on a Canadian Malofilm Video release of Ambition, while the U.S. Media/Fox VHS used the first Fox Video logo instead.

Editor's Note : This is considered one of the most memorable logos ever made, especially thanks to the epic music.

===4th Logo (Argentina Version) (1980s)===

Logo : On a black space background with a moon on the upper-left of the screen and a planet below that (a widescreen shot of the opening in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope after the title crawl, stretched to fit a 4:3 screen), two hands are clasped together. They move away from the top and bottom respectively, revealing a super-imposed CBS FOX VIDEO logo with an explosion inside it. Then clips from various movies (such as Star Wars) play inside the logo. Then, after a few seconds, "GATIVIDEO S.A." (in its company font) appears below, then that itself disappears after a few moments.

FX/SFX : The hands (live action), and the clips playing inside the logo.

Music/Sounds : A disco theme.

Availability : Seen on VHS tapes in Argentina distributed by Gativideo.

===5th logo (1998)===

Nicknames : "The Boring Lines", "The Lines IV"

Logo : On a black background, we see white version of the CBS/Fox Video logo.

FX/SFX : None.

Music/Sounds : None.

Availability : Ultra rare. Its only known appearance is on an Australian VHS release of FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue.

(1989?-Early 1990s?)
Logo:
 * Opening : The CBS/Fox Video logo in silver is inside of a black box with a <span style="color:rgb(235,235,235);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">white  outline zooms up and has three black lines (each one getting larger further down) come up with it. "<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">ALL TIME GREATS " then zooms and it has a larger line with an upside down triangle on it. This all happens against a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  background.
 * Closing : The same as the opening version, only "<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">YOURS TO KEEP FOREVER " appears under it.

FX/SFX : The box, lines and text sliding up.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over :
 * The CBS/Fox Video theme from the previous logos.
 * On the closing version, a male British announcer says, "All Time Greats from CBS/Fox Video, favorite films to keep and enjoy, forever".

Availability : Rare. Can be seen on promos for films released under this label on other releases issued under said label.

Fox Video
===1st Logo (July 11, 1991-May 5, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003)===

Nicknames : "The Shining", "The CGI Shining Searchlights", "<span style="color:rgb(207,214,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">Gold  Tower", "Fox Structure", "<span style="color:rgb(213,224,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">Golden  Fox Structure", "Searchlights"

Logo : A still shot of the famous 20th Century Fox structure, from a slightly different angle, <span style="color:rgb(204,180,47);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">gold  color against a simple <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">blue  background. The wording on the structure now says "FOX VIDEO", with an extra gap where "FOX" would be in the movie logo. The logo "shimmers" as bars of light move through a la the Touchstone logo.

Variants :
 * There is a letterboxed "Scope" version on widescreen releases. The logo was the same, but was matted (or cropped) to widescreen.
 * A black and <span style="color:rgb(235,235,235);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">white  variant exists. This can be seen on some black and <span style="color:rgb(235,235,235);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">white  films released on home video, such as the 1991 VHS releases of the original Miracle on 34th Street and Sink the Bismarck!. The B&W version in widescreen can also be seen on the Laserdisc version of the latter film.
 * On some Media Home Entertainment releases, such as Scanners 2: The New Order, the words "DISTRIBUTED BY" appear above the logo. In this case, no announcer spiel was used.
 * On the demo VHS of Alien 3, after a preview for The Beverly Hillbillies tapes, a darker-tinted version appears, cutting in from black (the standard logo appears at the start of the tape).
 * For the 1993 UK rental VHS of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the animation was slowed down, to fit the full extended TCF fanfare mentioned below.
 * A special version was seen on UK widescreen VHS releases. The logo plays as normal, then it zooms out towards the middle of the screen and turns 3-D and it expands with movie scenes appearing behind the background (all resembling the letterbox format). The word "WIDESCREEN" (arched upwards and downwards with blue shadow effects underneath) pan past the screen vertically, then turns horizontal and rests in front of the Fox Video logo.
 * On the Fox Video Sentimental promo, which can be found on the 1992 demo VHS of My Cousin Vinny, the logo is still and zoomed out on a black background with the text "Available from FoxVideo" shown on the bottom.

FX/SFX : The "shimmer".

Music/Sounds : None.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover Variants :
 * The 1979 TCF fanfare can be heard on PAL and French SÉCAM releases, as well as a few NTSC releases, such as the widescreen Laserdisc of Die Hard and the rental version of Point Break.
 * The UK rental VHS of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York uses the extended TCF fanfare.
 * The Widescreen version has an abridged version of the extended TCF theme that starts when the logo zooms out and an energetic whoosh sound when the logo expands.
 * On some tapes, only the drums from the opening of the fanfare are heard.
 * On Media Home Entertainment releases, the announcer for the Media and Fox Video logos says "Distributed by Fox Video".
 * There was a closing variant seen on some Australian PAL tapes (mainly rental tapes) which had the same voice-over from the CBS/Fox PAL closing variant, sometimes with the 1979 TCF fanfare preceding it

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variant : There was a closing variant seen on some PAL tapes which, instead of the Fox fanfare, had the same voice-over from the CBS/Fox PAL closing variant.

Availability : Rare. It's seen on all Fox videos from that period. The best way to find this is to look for a Fox Video print logo that is a simple 2D drawing with no color. Again, this will be easy to find in second-hand video shops, charity shops and on eBay.
 * This logo first appeared on the original release of Robin Hood (1991) (not to be confused with Warner Bros./Morgan Creek's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, also released in 1991) and was seen on movies such as Sleeping with the Enemy, Home Alone, Class Action, Only the Lonely (not to be confused with the Roy Orbison and Motels songs of the same name), Point Break, Hot Shots!, For the Boys, White Men Can't Jump, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, My Cousin Vinny, Alien 3, The Last of the Mohicans, The Simpsons Christmas Special, and A Garfield Thanksgiving, as well as the UK VHS of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
 * This logo was also seen on trailers for 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures films such as Bad Girls, PCU, Speed, Miracle on 34th Street (1994), The Pagemaster, Nell, Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Kiss of Death, French Kiss, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, The Brothers McMullen, A Walk in the Clouds, Strange Days, Waiting to Exhale, Dunston Checks In, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Stealing Beauty, Independence Day, Chain Reaction, She's the One, That Thing You Do!, Romeo + Juliet and Blood and Wine.
 * The widescreen version appears on the special letterbox collector's edition of the Star Wars trilogy.
 * It can also be found on BBC Video tapes from 1991-93, but those aren't as easy to find.
 * It also makes surprise appearances on the 1998 UK VHS of Edward Scissorhands (which is probably a reprint from 1991, according to the previews on it), a 2001 VHS of Demetrius and the Gladiators (most likely a reprint itself), and the 2000 VHS and 2003 DVD of Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park, which use the 1991 video master made for the Laserdisc and VHS reissues.
 * Also seen on tapes from Media Home Entertainment released from mid-to-late 1991 until 1993, such as Paris Trout, Nails, and Prospero's Books.
 * Among the last tapes to use this were the original video release of Love Potion #9 and the 1993 Studio Classics VHS of A Letter to Three Wives.
 * The Widescreen version is seen on the UK Special Edition VHS of The Abyss (which also uses the next logo).
 * It strangely appeared on some early '90s reprints of earlier CBS/Fox titles with CBS/Fox packaging and labels, including My Bodyguard and Short Circuit.

=== 2nd Logo (May 26, 1993-November 21, 1995) ===

Nicknames : "Rotating Tower", "The Ugly Tower", "Fox Structure II", "Ugly Fox Structure", "CGI Searchlights", "Searchlights II"

Logo : On a <span style="color:rgb(125,22,130);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">purple  background, we see a Fox structure, from an extreme upper-left angle. We move down and pan around the structure (and a light shines through it as we do that), saying "FOX VIDEO" like in the 1st logo, before settling into the familiar angle we usually see Fox logos from.

Variants :
 * An extremely rare variant exists where the Fox Video logo is already formed.
 * On a few widescreen releases, such as the 1994 letterbox Laserdisc of The Omen, the logo is matted (or cropped) to 1:85.1 widescreen.
 * There is a black and <span style="color:rgb(240,240,240);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">white  variant. This can be found on the 1993 VHS of Young Frankenstein.
 * On the 1995 Hong Kong Laserdisc of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, the logo fades in a few seconds into the logo, and also fades out earlier than usual.

FX/SFX : The computer animation, which is a variation of the 20th Century Fox animation.

Music/Sounds : None.

Music/Sounds Variants :
 * Occasionally, the 1979 TCF fanfare was used, mainly on PAL releases including the UK rental VHS releases of Used People, Jack the Bear, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, and The Vanishing.
 * On the 1995 Hong Kong laserdisc of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, a deep synth score is heard.
 * On Media Home Entertainment releases, the announcer for the Media and Fox Video logos says "Distributed by Fox Video".

Availability :
 * First appeared on Used People, Toys, and Hoffa, with the same 2D print logo. This can be seen on all 1993-95 Fox Video releases such as My Neighbor Totoro, Doctor Dolittle, Frozen Assets, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Once Upon a Forest, The Sandlot, Mrs. Doubtfire, True Lies, Speed, Baby's Day Out, The Pagemaster, Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, The Scout, Nell, all 1995 20th Century Fox Selections VHS releases such as Big, Pacific Heights, Shining Through and Only the Lonely, and some BBC Video releases from that era, including Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers and Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out''.
 * Was also seen on tapes released by Media Home Entertainment from 1993, just before they went out of business, including Scam and Taking the Heat (Media's final overall release).
 * This also appears on the Star Wars Trilogy: The Definitive Collection Laserdisc box set from 1993.
 * The last tapes to use this were Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.
 * Strangely, this logo doesn't appear on the 1995 Star Wars trilogy VHS box set, despite showing the 1994 full color print logo on the cover. However, in regards to the Laserdisc versions, Star Wars: A New Hope actually uses this, while The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi use the 1984 CBS/Fox Video logo instead.

Editor's Note: This is considered by many to be an ugly logo, with it's weird, dull colors and weird structuring.

=== 3rd Logo (1994-95) ===

Nicknames : "Print Logo", "Fox Structure III", "Print Fox Structure", "Searchlights III"

Logo : It's basically the full color Fox Video print logo of the time, which is the golden structure 20th Century Fox logo from 1953 with "FOX VIDEO" replacing the text. It begins by taking up the whole screen, but zooms out until it is in a box in the center of the screen.

Variant : On the Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary Collection trailer, the words "from FoxVideo" are seen below the logo.

FX/SFX : The zooming out of the logo.

Music/Sounds : The end theme of the trailer. On the Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary Collection trailer, it's silent.

Availability : Rare. It's seen on the trailer for the Shirley Temple Collection VHS box set that can be found on the VHS releases of Mrs. Doubtfire, The Little Princess, The Blue Bird, and Miracle on 34th Street (1994). Was also seen at the end of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary Collection trailer, which can be found on the 1994 VHS of The Sound of Music. This logo can also be seen on posters and VHS covers of 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures films.

===4th Logo (December 19, 1995-March 1998)===

Nicknames : "CGI Searchlights II", "Fox Structure IV", "Panning Structure", "Searchlights IV"

Logo : We begin by panning across the Los Angeles skyline at around sunset. We see a spotlight and then pan across the "FOX VIDEO" structure, now redone so that it looks a lot better and all of it is set in Futura Extra Bold (so it still doesn't quite match the TCF logo). We zoom out until we reach the comfortable Fox logo distance.

FX/SFX : The computer animation, which is now a variation of the Fox Searchlight Pictures animation. Very good animation, and a large improvement over it's predecessors.

Music/Sounds : None usually, but on Descriptive Video Service VHS's, a narrator uses the same description as on the 1993 logo.

Availability : Fairly common. This logo always came after the logo below. Strangely, this doesn't appear on The Best of The Simpsons VHS box set from 1997 (despite the logo appearing on the packaging of the individual tapes and the box itself), the 1996 Premiere Series releases of A Walk in the Clouds, Nine Months, and The Truth About Cats and Dogs (though all three use the 1991 full color print logo on their spines), and the 1997 VHS of The Full Monty (which doesn’t have the print logo on the packaging).
 * Seen on releases of the era such as Die Hard with a Vengeance (VHS only; the Laserdisc uses the 1993 logo), Broken Arrow, Independence Day, Jingle All the Way, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask, the 1996 VHS of The Sound of Music, and the 1997 Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition box set (the VHS versions only; the Laserdisc version only uses the 1995 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo).
 * Seen on all 20th Century Fox Selections titles released between 1995 and 1997 such as Raising Arizona, The Super, Big Trouble in Little China, The Abyss, Hoffa, Short Circuit, The Omen (1976), The Good Son, Young Frankenstein, Bill Cosby Himself, Enemy Mine, History of the World: Part I, Porky's, Commando, The Fly (1986 remake) and Better Off Dead.
 * This was also used on most Premiere Series releases from 1996 and 1997 such as Mrs. Doubtfire, My Cousin Vinny, That Thing You Do!, Sleeping with the Enemy and Predator.
 * The Laserdisc of Volcano doesn't have the FoxVideo print logo on the cover, but both this and the following logo appear on the disc.
 * Look for a screencap of this logo used on the packaging of most 1997 releases (all 1995-96 releases use the 1991 full color print logo).
 * One of the last releases to use this were very early prints of Anastasia.

Editor's Note : This is often seen as the best of the Fox Video logos.

Domestic (North American) Variants
===1st Logo (August 29, 1995-October 2008; October 6, 2009-October 5, 2010; 2015)===

Logo : Same as the current 20th Century Fox logo except that, at the end, the structure pans back farther than usual to reveal the stacked words "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" on the right of the Fox structure with "HOME" set in Neutraface No. 2. Once the logo is fully revealed, the News Corporation byline fades in at the bottom of the screen (on pre-2013 releases). The registered trademark sign fades in as well.

Trivia : This logo is a throwback to the logo of That's Hollywood!, a series from 20th Century Fox Television.

Variants :
 * Newer releases, starting with The Croods, have the logo cut short to the middle.
 * A 4:3 variant exists, but is used only for full screen DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, such as the 16th and 17th releases of The Simpsons. It is also cropped to 16:9 as a widescreen logo. It is also cropped to 2.35.1 as a letterbox widescreen logo. There is a widescreen version of the open matte logo expanded to 16:9 with the Hor+ screen scaling method.
 * Starting with the release of Turbo on November 12, 2013, the News Corporation byline is excluded and the logo is bylineless for the first time since 1995. This is mainly due to the split on June 28, 2013.

FX/SFX : Same as the current 20th Century Fox logo.

Music/Sounds : The 1997 Fox fanfare arrangement.

Music/Sounds Variants :
 * A short version is used on newer releases.
 * The DVD (and probably Blu-Ray) releases of seasons 16 and 17 of The Simpsons use the audio of Ralph Wiggum 'singing along' to the second half of the fanfare from The Simpsons Movie, whilst season 18 uses the standard 1997 fanfare, with Fat Tony saying 'Fuggedaboutit...' on the last note.
 * On the 2011 Blu-Ray of When Harry Met Sally, the theme is out of sync.

Availability : Current, and fairly common. Seen on 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight and MGM releases from September 2010 onward, such as Glee: The Complete First Season (the first release to use this logo), Avatar (collector's edition), The A-Team, Machete, Vampires Suck, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, X-Men: First Class, Rio, Margaret, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Epic, Hitchcock, Prometheus, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Stoker, The Croods, Turbo, The Counselor, Free Birds, The East, Don Jon, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and X-Men: Apocalypse, among others. The last releases to use this logo with the News Corporation byline were The Internship and The Way Way Back, both released on October 22, 2013, although the News Corporation byline made a surprise appearance on the 2014 Blu-ray and DVD release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

International Variants
===1st Logo (1995-2002)===



Logo: Here are the versions used on VHS and DVD:
 * VHS: We see the 1994 Fox logo animate as normal until, about 13 seconds in, it zooms out, revealing the logo inside an inner box, itself contained inside an outer box on a <span style="color:rgb(98,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">blue-violet  background with blurry searchlights, and "<span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">HOME ENTERTAINMENT " zooms out from the bottom of the screen, stopping at the bottom of the inside of the outer box underneath the inner box containing the Fox logo (without the News Corporation byline).
 * DVD: We just see the end of the logo, starting from the Fox logo being revealed to be inside the box.

FX/SFX: The usual CGI used in the Fox logo, coupled with the zoom out of the text below.

Music/Sounds: The 1994 Fox fanfare arrangement on the VHS version, but silent on the DVD version.

Availability: With the exception of a few Canadian releases like the 2000 VHS of Thunder and Lightning, you won't find it anywhere in North America, but it is easy to find if you are in another country such as the UK. This can be seen on Titanic. Strangely, this logo does not appear on the 1998 UK rental VHS of Edward Scissorhands, which features the 1991 Fox Video logo. The DVD version can be seen on early UK DVD releases including Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Also seen on the 1995 Hong Kong Laserdisc of Return of the Jedi.

===2nd logo (1999-2010)===

Logo: The standard 20th Century Fox logo, but there are many streaks of <span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">orange  and <span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;">blue  placed over it, which animate on and off the screen. When the logo is done, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  and <span style="color:rgb(191,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">purple  gradient bars on top and bottom wipe in and the logo's sky background dissolves into a different cloud background, and "<span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">HOME ENTERTAINMENT " appears via folding effect below the logo which zooms out, and then fades out via blur effect after a few seconds leaving just the logo, which then fades out.

Variant: On a UK home video trailer for Ice Age, the logo is in <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  on a <span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,200,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;">sky  background with snow around it and a crack on it.

FX/SFX: The usual Fox tower animation coupled with the CGI "streaks".

Music/Sounds: VHS tapes had the standard tone 1994 Fox fanfare arrangement, while DVD releases had the high tone 1997 fanfare arrangement.

Availability: Again, only used outside North America, except on a few Canadian releases. Examples include the UK release of Ice Age and reprints of Simpsons tapes. Also appears on the Japanese Laserdisc of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (with the 1994 fanfare). The standard tone 1994 Fox fanfare arrangement music variant strangely appears on the 2004 Region 4 DVD release of Family Guy: Season Two.

Editor's Note: It's pretty much the same as the movie logo. Nothing too special.

===3rd logo (2009-2010)===

Logo : Same as the 2nd logo, but when the 1994 logo is formed, the words "<span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">HOME ENTERTAINMENT ", in metallic <span style="color:rgb(204,204,14);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">gold, zoom out below the logo (without the News Corporation byline), and the streaks of <span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">orange  and <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  all disappear at the end.

FX/SFX : Same as the 2nd logo.

Music/Sounds : The 1997 fanfare arrangement.

Availability : Once again, only used outside North America. Like before, this was also used on a few Canadian releases like Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Final Note : Current international releases use the 4th domestic logo.

Fox DVD Video
Nickname : "Metallic Fox Structure"

Logo :
 * Opening: A metallic structure that says "FOX DVD VIDEO" (with "FOX" on top of "DVD" and "VIDEO" in an oval) zooms in. A light then highlights the logo and moves from right to left (also getting the background). The structure is gradually turning and zooms toward the screen, with the viewer going through the "O" in "FOX", revealing a trailer or promo.
 * Closing: The same logo as before, only the background is moving around and is <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue.

FX/SFX : The zooming in and out and turning of the structure.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over :
 * On the opening version, a big beat style tune with a male announcer asking, "Are you ready for Fox DVD Video?".
 * The closing version has a static noise. Both versions have a "whoosh" noise when the logo moves.

Availability : Rare. This was actually meant for a promo on VHS and early Fox DVD releases from the era talking about DVD and its features. Can be seen on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD releases from the late 1990s to about 2001, such as the 2001 DVD releases of Airheads and M*A*S*H, and the 2000 DVD release of X-Men.

(2007-November 2010)
Nickname : "CGI Searchlights"

Logo : We see the 20th Century Fox logo zooming in slowly, with the words "<span style="color:rgb(255,165,0);font-family:Times,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">HOME ENTERTAINMENT " in gold at the bottom, shining. Then a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  streak changes the text to the "Blu-ray Disc" logo, leaving behind a "swoosh" shape as it does this.

FX/SFX : The zooming in, the shining, and the words changing.

Music/Sounds : A majestic fanfare resembling the title screen music for Netflix's Wii app, followed by a slight laser sound for the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">blue  flash.

Availability : Common. It can be seen on every TCF release on Blu-ray disc until the fall of 2010. It appeared on releases such as Die Hard, Fight Club, Ice Age, Australia, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. It can be also seen on MGM Home Entertainment releases on Blu-ray Disc, including Valkyrie, and Hot Tub Time Machine, among others. Along with the original version of this logo, it made a surprise re-appearance on the 2013 re-releases of the Die Hard films, the 2015 re-release of The Sound of Music, and the re-release of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as in the 2015 5-film collection set. The 2015 James Bond Blu-Ray box set also surprisingly retains this on some of the films, while others use the current logo.