Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

## Logos

### 1979-1983: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment

**Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment** was the home video label of Columbia Pictures, established in 1979 to distribute Columbia films on Beta and VHS videocassette formats. One of the most popular films to commonly use this logo was *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* (1975).

The music is the same as the 1976 Columbia Pictures logo.

In 1982, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment merged with RCA to form RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. *Lost and Found* was released on VHS in 1982 (the same year as *Taxi Driver*, *Union City*, *Neighbors*, *Wrong is Right*, *On the Waterfront and It Happened One Night*), but as an RCA/Columbia title, making it the first title under that distributor name.

### 1983-1991: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video

#### North America

###### 1983-1987

In 1982, RCA Corporation created a joint venture with Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, changing the company's name to RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. This was their first logo, appearing on the original VHS releases of the very first TriStar Pictures films. By 1986, the logo gradually became less common to find.

The logo is silent.

###### 1986-1991

A bit easier to find than its 1982 counterpart, this was RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video's last logo. However, it mostly appears on films released by TriStar Pictures; until 1989, VHS tapes with Columbia Pictures films went straight to the film logo.

Yet again, the logo is silent.

#### International

This logo was only seen in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, mostly on 1980s VHS tapes of Columbia and TriStar Pictures films.

Like its domestic (U.S.) counterpart, the logo is silent.

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### 1991-2001: Columbia TriStar Home Video

#### 1991-1992

After RCA's joint venture with Columbia ended on August 23, 1991, all further VHS releases since then were released under the brand name "Columbia TriStar Home Video".

Their first logo shown below is quite rare, seeing as though it mostly only appears on VHS releases of films released by Columbia and TriStar Pictures in 1991. One example is the 1992 VHS of *Hook*.

Even yet again, there is no music for this logo.

#### 1992-1996

This logo is also quite rare, as it usually only appears on films released by Columbia or TriStar Pictures in 1992 and re-prints of older films from September 1992 to April 1993. Later prints of *Hook* on VHS contain this logo.

This was the last logo from the company to have no music whatsoever.

#### 1993-2001

First seen in May 1993, Columbia TriStar Home Video's third logo is much more common to find than the first two logos. The logo was frequently in use until 1996 in North America on VHS tapes, Laserdiscs (and on early DVDs), then it was re-used starting in 1998, after the 1997 logo was no longer in use as the standard logo for VHS and DVD releases of films and television shows from Columbia TriStar Home Video.

The logo also appears on VHS and Laserdisc prints of early films with the 1993 Columbia and TriStar Pictures logos, and on DVDs under the Columbia Classics series.

#### 1995

On an antique gold fabric background, a square with the footage of the 1993 Columbia Torch Lady in it fades in, and slides to the left, revealing a box with the footage of the 1993 TriStar Pegasus (but the background is changed into a similar cloud background from the Columbia logo, but a bit shorter and darker), which slides to the right. The words "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" appear above the boxes and "HOME VIDEO" on the bottom with "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company" below everything else.

#### 1995-1996

Same as the 1995 Columbia TriStar Television logo, but "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" is replaced with "HOME VIDEO".

#### 1996-1997

This was the standard logo for all Columbia/TriStar Pictures releases on VHS from May 1996 to July 1997. It was seen on films such as *Matilda*, *Fly Away Home*, and *Jumanji*.

Very early DVD releases of such films also had this logo.

#### 1997-2001

From mid-1997 to 1998, this became the standard logo for all VHS releases from Columbia TriStar Home Video. After that, they re-used the 1993 logo. Usually, the logo has no music.

#### 2000-2001

This logo was only seen on most early DVD prints of Columbia TriStar films. It can be found on DVD prints of *Stuart Little* (1999) and *Hook* (1991).

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**Warning screens**

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### 2001-2005: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Early in 2001, the company's name had slightly changed to Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. This was the only logo to have the company's name from back then. It can be seen on DVD releases of *Metropolis, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Hook* (Superbit Collection edition), and *Matilda: Special Edition*. On VHS and early DVD releases, the logo is slowed down. The VHS variant on DVD can be found on the international region 2 and 4 DVDs of *Charlie's Angels*, *S.W.A.T.* (2004 re-print), the Region 1 DVD of Jeffery Blitz's documentary "Spellbound", *The Order* (UK release), *Dirty Dancing* (which is in scope ratio), *China Moon*, *Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different* (2004 re-print), the German DVD of *Dark Blue World* and the Australian DVD of *Born Free + Living Free*. It can also be found on the UK DVD of *Stuart Little 2*. The logo stopped getting used in 2005 although VHS releases in the UK & Ireland continued using it until April 2006.

### 2004-Present: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

After the current name of the company was adopted in late 2004, this current logo began in use on March 24, 2005, the same day when the PlayStation Portable was released. The first DVD with this logo was Are We There Yet?, released on May 24, 2005. The logo can be found on all Blu-ray Disc releases of Columbia and TriStar Pictures films.

**Logo**

**Warning screen (Japanese)**

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