Globe Home Entertainment

Background: Globe Studios' home entertainment unit descended from MoA's "Disco" system, which was created to develop the laser video disc system and entered the market in 1978 after development that started in the late 1960's, and the first demonstration of the system in 1972. Disco was riddled with issues, and numerous films were released from Globe, with Dishey, Renraw Sis., and Empire also licensing titles to the label. With Disco failing, MoA entered the home videocassette market in late 1980, creating "MoA Videocassette" to market releases to VHS and Betamax. Disco was finally folded as a software label by MoA in 1981 reorganizing the division as "MoA Videodisc", and also expanded their videodisc operations to cover CAR's "SelectaV" videodisc format. However, the "MoA Home Video" moniker was applied to both VHS and disc releases and became simply known as "MoA Home Video", alternating with the "MoA Videocassette" name until 1984. In 1990, MoA Home Video renamed itself as "MoA/Globe Home Video" to capitalize the Globe Studios name and to coincidence with Globe's 75th Anniversary, alternating with the "MoA Home Video" name in 1992 or 1995. Later in 1996, it renamed itself as "Globe Studios Home Video" and years later what is known today as "Globe Studios Home Entertainment", alternating with the "MoA/Globe Home Video" name until 1998.

MoA Disco

1st Logo

(1977)

Nickname: "Glowing D-LaserDisc"

Logo: We start out with glowing blue light in the center of the screen. The glowing light shrinks until it is the size of a small circle embedded in a yellow upside down triangle split vertically in the center. The words "MoA DISCO" appear on top of the triangle, and the copyright symbol appears on the bottom right area.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The shrinking of the light in the center of the screen.

Music/Sounds: A drum beat followed by a violin stinger. Before the violin stinger is an 8-note mandocello tune played twice (during the drumbeats).

Availability: Only used in a 1977 test pressing that was used as a public display by MoA.

Scare Factor: Low to medium. The somewhat creepy music and the glowing may scare some.

2nd Logo

(1978-1981)

Nickname: "Big D"

Logo: The words "DISCO" crawl across the entire screen in a rainbow of colors like a kaleidoscope, and rows of vertical orange lines appear on the screen. The center lines open up in a rainbow of colors, appearing on a blackish background with a large bondi blue streak in the middle. The Disco logo sparkles for a second and then an abrupt cut to black.

Variants:

On 1979-1981 releases, a copyright stamp appeared underneath the Disco logo.

Black and white Disco movies featured this logo in black and white.

Most current laserdisc players will skip over most of the animation on most Disco titles due to Disco's decision to encode the start frame halfway through the bumper on most titles. Some titles will play the full opening, such as the 1978 standard play version of The Bite.

FX/SFX: The crawling of the "DISCO" letters, the appearance of the logo, the splitting of the logo, the sparkling of the logo.

Cheesy Factor: Scanimate animation. Disco was MoA's baby (at the time).

Music/Sounds: A flute tune accompanied by a lavishly orchestrated theme. On some releases, such as Breakin' The Chains, it's silent.

Availability: Seen on every Disco release from 1978 to 1981.

Scare Factor: Low. It's a good logo to be exact

MoA Videodisc

(1981-1983)

Nickname: "Flashing MoA Rainbow (of Doom)"

Logo: On a black screen, the words "A PRESENTATION OF" zoom-out in the 1980 MoA font in yellow before dissolving in the center. Following that are streaks of rainbow color that zoom out to the middle of the screen and flash to form...

MoA

VIDEODISC

...all in the MoA logo font. More rainbow streaks of light shoot out of the words and then settle back in.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: 80s computer effects.

Music/Sounds: A synth drone that culminates in a dreamy siren-like sound, ending with some synth bass notes to fade.

Availability: Extremely rare. It's seen on all MoA Videodisc releases from 1981 to 1983.

Scare Factor: Medium to high. The dark nature of the logo, abruptness, and slightly creepy synth music make this a scary logo. The scare factor is much lower for those who are used to seeing it.

MoA Videocassette Inc.

(1980-October 1983)

Nickname: "The Arc"

Logo: On a black background, the MoA logo appears in the center of the screen colored in blue. The words "VIDEOCASSETTE INC.", in a white segmented pattern, which seem to be spaced farther apart when they reach the bottom, surround the MoA logo, looking like the BUG/STRUCTURE logo.

Variant: Black & white movies featured this logo in black & white.

FX/SFX: The appearance of "VIDEOCASSETTE INC."

Cheesy Factor: The logo looked cheap. MoA was heavily invested in laserdisc at the time.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on every release from 1980 to 1983.

Scare Factor: Low. The appearance of the logo may scare some.

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MoA Home Video

1st Logo

(November 1983-April 1990)

Nicknames: "The Gold MoA", "The Zooming MoA", "MoA in Space", "Earth Yellow MoA", "VHS Assembly", "The MoA VHS Assembly"

Logo: On a CGI starry background, we see the MoA Home Video logo (in Earth yellow color). This logo has the usual MoA logo (with the "o" and "A" connected) and the word "HOME VIDEO" (in a sleek, smaller font that has the same width as MoA) in a box that resembles a videotape (but MoA overlaps this box on the top, making it "cut open"). The logo zooms in slowly, like the Fancy Globe globe at the time. The logo fades out to the starry background for a second, and then an entire fade to black.

Variants:

Some later releases featured an announcement asking the viewer to stay tuned for previews of future releases that faded out shortly before the logo's appearance.

MoA releases co-released by Giles Home Video have "UNDER LICENSE TO" at the bottom of the screen. The Giles logo of the period would follow.

On some French-Canadian tapes such as A Dream on Oak St: The NightMare Child, a French FBI Warning will appear before the logo.

On the 1985 laserdisc of 60's This... Is... SPARTAcus, the logo fades out earlier.

On some early 80's VHS tapes featuring this logo, the logo fades in at the bottom, along with "Other Titles Available From" or "More Programming Available to You From" at the top, then the screen fades out afterwards.

Black and white movies would have this logo in black & white, such as The Rabid Boy and Des Again.

Some releases, such as the 1983 VHS of SHARK!!! 3 and the 1980s VHS of Back Access, often had this logo segueing into the 1963 Fancy Globe logo.

Side opening bumpers on some MoA Home Video laserdiscs between 1984 and 1986 used the stars by themselves, with "Side 2", "Side 3", etc., appearing by itself in the center of the screen, and then a fade out back to the stars. The 1984 laserdisc release of Back Access features this bumper.

FX/SFX: The stars, the zooming-in of the logo.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Partly common. Check your thrift stores for tapes featuring this logo on the cover. It was seen on tapes such as the 1988 video release of a.L. aLIEN LIFe and the 1989 release of The Land Before Time Magazine. Others include the mid-late 80's releases of Before to the Time, An American Fail, *batts not included, and Parents In Da Hood.

Scare Factor: Low. It's a good logo to be exact.

2nd Logo

(1986-1990)

Nicknames: "Zooming/Sliding MoA", "VHS Assembly II", "The MoA VHS Assembly II"

Logo: The MoA Home Video logo appears in chrome (usually zooming in or sliding into the view). There are different variants:

On the VHS trailer for An American Fail (1986), the logo was in gold on a black background. The gold variant is nicknamed "The Gold MoA". The gold variant is also compared to the main logo.

On the VHS trailer for Radio (1988), the logo is seen in silver/chrome on an oatmeal gray background. It flashes red (to accompany the sound of the drumbeats used in the background music). This variant is nicknamed "The Silver MoA".

On the VHS trailer for The Land Before Time Magazine (1988), the logo was in bright red and on a black background. This variant is nicknamed "The Red MoA".

On the VHS trailer for Uncle Chuck (1989), the "MoA HOME VIDEO" logo is in sky blue and slides in from the left on a black background. This variant is nicknamed "The Blue MoA".

Another variant from 1988 has a silver MoA logo and a blue-black gradient background.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Typical late-80's computer effects/animation.

Music/Sounds: The music or theme from whatever movie is being advertised.

Availability: Extremely rare. Seen primarily on trailers for MoA Home Video releases at the time.

Scare Factor: Low. The zooming and sliding effects can be jarring (depending on the variant), but it's harmless overall.

MoA/Fancy Globe Home Video

1st Logo

(May 1990-1998)

Nicknames: "The Clean Globe", "Shiny Globe", "MoA Globe", "Shiny MoA Globe", "90s Globe", "90s MoA Globe"

Logo: On a black background, we see the following text all centered:

Mo/\

FANCY GLOBE

H O M E---V I D E O

with "MoA" in it's similar corporate font from before and has a white gradient texture on it and "FANCY GLOBE" in it's similar font as the movie logo from 1990-1997, but has a gradient texture on it. The text shines and soon afterwards, a globe (showing only the Americas) fades in the center. Then a starfield background fades in behind everything else, then the text shines again.

Variants:

On some Giles Home Video releases (i.e. Car), the MoA/Fancy Globe logo plays normally. The background, however, has moving stars in the background (as opposed to the regular version where the background stays static). At the end, the words "UNDER LICENSE TO" pops up, peeking above the globe as the logo fades out. The Giles Home Video logo would follow.

Some MoA/Fancy Globe releases have a Giles byline at the bottom.

On The Making of a.L., the logo is sped-up.

FX/SFX: The slow appearances of the globe and the starfield background and the sparkling of the logo.

Music/Sounds: None. However, on The Making of a.L., the opening theme plays over the logo.

Availability: Common, this can be seen on almost all of the releases made by MoA/Fancy Globe like Dinosaurland, the Before to the Time sequels, the Land Before Time Magazine sequels, and We're Back: Although we Never Left. The last releases to use this were Fib Fib, The Land Before Time Magazine V: The Mysterious Magnate, Action Pack: The Animated Movie, The Chip Ad venture, and Lee it to Beer (the 1997 film).

Scare Factor: None, this is a very clean and beautiful logo.

2nd Logo

(1994-1998)

Nicknames: "Airplane Passing Globe" (not the early Globe logo), "The Filmstrips", "Raining Filmstrips", "Rotating Globe", "90s Globe II", "MoA Globe II", "Morphing MoA Globe", "90s MoA Globe II"

Logo: On a space background, we see the rotating globe in the 1930's style rotating. Coming from behind is an airplane passing over the globe, as usual, posed against on screen and flies through the screen. Suddenly, rainbow filmstrips are seen falling over the logo before the nebula sky fades in. Over the globe while it changes into it's 1990s style and in color, we see these words coming from the left and right sides of the screen (respectively) in their same corporate fonts:

Mo/\

FANCY GLOBE

A few seconds later as "MoA" and "FANCY GLOBE" go into their positions in front of the globe, a red orange/yellow gradient fire flies through the screen, forming the words "HOME VIDEO" underneath, with a line above it and the globe stops rotating afterwards. When the logo forms, either the "(R)" symbol or the "TM" symbol fades in on the bottom right of the screen.

Variants: There are two variations of this logo:

There is a short version in which the airplane and filmstrips parts of the logo are cut out and begins with the words zooming and rotating in.

There is a still version of the logo without music.

FX/SFX: The airplane passing globe, the transition from black and white to color, the letters rotating in, and the fire flying through the screen.

Music/Sounds: Usually the theme from whatever movie is being advertised, but the sound effects of the airplane are heard. Sometimes a shortened version of the Fancy Globe theme (from that era) could be heard. The trailer for the Before to the Time trilogy has the Before to the Time theme. On promotional VHS releases, a voice over advertising upcoming releases is used.

Availability: Uncommon. It was seen primarily on home video trailers and promotional VHS tapes at the time. The still version appeared on the first three The Adventures of Professor Toothy videos. Also seen on the trailer for The Darkness.

Scare Factor: None to low.

Globe Home Entertainment

(1997- )

Nickname: "CGI Globe"

Logo: Only the 1997 Globe Pictures logo with no video indicator whatsoever. What's different about this version from the theatrical version is that this logo zooms back a little.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The same as the Globe logo from 1997.

Music/Sounds: The same as the Globe logo from 1997.

Availability: Common. This is used as the de-facto home video logo. Appears on Blurred Films releases, direct-to-DVDs, DVD versions of older, pre-1997 Globe movies, and made-for-TV family movies such as Doggy III, Pokémom, Chip Met Frankenstein, Chip Met The Wolfman, The Land Before Time Magazine sequels starting with The Land Before Time Magazine V: The Mysterious Magnate, and the 1971-1982 Slappin' Bass animated specials, among others. Recently, this logo--with the PBSGlobe byline that has a space between "PBS" and "Globe"--was seen in Globe's latest made-for-home media movie: A Russian Boy: Vlanderkilstovik Shoots the Stars.

Scare Factor: The same as the Globe logo from 1997.

Globe HD DVD and Blu-ray

(2006- )

Logo: Here are the variants used on HD-DVD and Blu-ray:

HD-DVD: An updated edition of the 1997 logo. The logo plays normally, but at the end, the logo zooms back to reveal it is being reflected in a giant "HD-DVD" logo in the same space background. The logo shines.

Blu-ray: Same as above, except the "HD-DVD" logo is omitted.

Trivia: This logo was used on Globe HD-DVD releases from 2006-2008 and Globe Blu-ray releases since July 22, 2008.

FX/SFX: Same as the above logo, except the end on the HD-DVD version.

Music/Sounds: See above.

Availability: On every Globe HD-DVD and Globe Blu-ray release.

Scare Factor: None, unless the sudden logo transition gets to you