Modelane Home Entertainment/Logos/Summary

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## Modelane Quadruplex Video

### 1st Logo (April 16, 1956-September 5, 1964)

**Nicknames**: "Rotating ('40s) Globe", "Cheesy Globe", "50s Globe", "Earth Globe"

**Visuals**: Same as the 1947 logo, but "International" is replaced with "Quadruplex Video".

**Technique**: Same as the 1947 logo.

**Audio**: The 1955 fanfare, composed by Louis Webb.

**Availability**: Very rare.

**Legacy**: "Quadruplex" is spelled wrong.

### 2nd Logo (September 6, 1964-October 1969)

**Nicknames**: "Zooming Globe", "Gaseous Globe", "Famous Globe", "Classic Globe", "Earth Globe II"

**Visuals**: TBA

**Technique**: Same as the 1964 logo.

**Audio**: TBA

**Availability**: Extremely rare.

**Legacy**: Same as before.

## Modelane U-Matic Video

### 3rd Logo (October 1969-November 1975)

**Nicknames**: "Zooming Globe II", "Gaseous Globe II", "Famous Globe II", "Classic Globe II", "Earth Globe III"

**Visuals**: TBA

**Technique**: TBA

**Audio**: TBA

**Availability**: Extremely rare.

## Modelane Home Video (1st era)

### 4th Logo (November 1975-March 7, 1978)

**Nicknames**: "Zooming Globe III", "Gaseous Globe III", "Famous Globe III", "Classic Globe III", "Earth Globe IV"

**Visuals**: TBA

**Technique**: Same as before.

**Audio**: Same as before.

**Availability**: Ultra rare.

## Modelane Video

### 5th Logo (March 8, 1978-January 15, 1980)

**Nickname**: "Glowing V-LaserDisc"

**Logo**: We start out with a glowing blue light in the center. The glowing light shrinks until it is the size of a small yellow circle embedded in an orange upside down triangle split vertically in the center. The white "MODELANE VIDEO" appear on top of the triangle, and while the circle turns as orange as the triangle, the "©" symbol appears on the bottom right area.

**Technique**: The shrinking of the light.

**Audio**: An 8-note percussive string tune followed by a dramatic orchestral finish.

**Availability**: Ultra rare, since the VHS and LaserDisc formats were too new at the time.

### 6th Logo (January 16, 1980-April 16, 1983)

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**Nicknames**: "Big V", "Majestic V"

**Logo**: The words "MODELANE VIDEO" 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 to reveal a white "V", with "MODELANE" and "IDEO" appearing on the left and right sides of the "V", respectively, appearing on a blackish background with a large Bondi blue streak in the middle. The Modelane Video logo sparkles for a second and then an abrupt cut to black.

**Variants**:

* On most releases, a copyright stamp appeared underneath "MODELANE VIDEO".

**Technique**: The crawling of the "MODELANE VIDEO" letters, the appearance, splitting and sparkling of the logo, all in Scanimation.

**Audio**: A flute tune accompanied by a lavishly orchestrated theme.

**Availability**: Seen on every Modelane Video release from 1980 to 1983.

## Modelane Videocassette Inc.

### 7th Logo (July 17, 1981-December 1984)

**Nicknames**: "The Arc", "Videocassette Inc. Modelane"

**Logo**: On a black background, the Modelane Inc. logo appears in the center of the screen colored in blue. The white "VIDEOCASSETTE INC.", in a white segmented font appear in an arc formation, surrounding the Modelane Inc. logo through "iris in" effect.

**Technique**: The rising in of "VIDEOCASSETTE INC."

**Audio**: None.

**Availability**: Rare. Seen on every Modelane Videocassette release from 1981 to 1984.

**Legacy**: This logo is much more basic than other home videos logos at the time. Also, "**VIDEOCASSETTE INC**" really shouldn't be shown above "**MODELANE.**"

## Modelane Home Video (2nd era)

### 8th Logo (December 1984-June 24, 1991)

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

**Logo**: On a CGI starry background, we see the Modelane Home Video logo (in Earth yellow-gold color). This logo has the usual Modelane Inc. logo and the words "HOME VIDEO" (in a sleek, smaller font that has the same width as "Modelane") in a box that resembles a videotape (but "Modelane" overlaps this box on the top, making it "cut open"). The logo zooms in slowly, like the Modelane globe at the time. The logo fades out to the starry background for a second, which then fades to black.

**Technique**: The stars and the zooming in of the logo.

**Audio**: None.

**Availability**: Somewhat common. Check your thrift stores for tapes featuring this logo on the cover.

**Legacy**: The CGI is actually decent for its time.

### 9th Logo (June 25, 1991-July 3, 1998)

**Nicknames**: "The Clean Globe", "Shiny Globe", "Modelane Globe", "Shiny Modelane Globe", "90s Globe", "90s Modelane Globe"

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

MODELANE
H O M E　　　　　V I D E O

with "Modelane" in its similar corporate font from before and has a white gradient texture on it and "MODELANE" in the same font as the movie logo from 1991-1998, but has a gradient texture on it. The text shines (à la the 1987 Bright Light Home Video logo) 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 (and as it fades out, two pings appear on the "E" in "MODELANE").

**Technique**: The slow appearances of the globe and the starfield background and the sparkling of the logo.

**Audio**: None.

**Availability**: Extremely common. This can be seen on almost all of the releases from Modelane during the era. Your best bet is VHS releases, because it's hard to come by on DVD releases.

**Legacy**: This logo has decent animation for its time and is a favorite to those who grew up with it.

## Modelane Home Entertainment

### 10th Logo (July 4, 1998-April 18, 2013)

**Nickname**: "CGI Globe", "Animated CGI Globe"

**Logo**: It's basically the 1998 Modelane logo with no video indicator whatsoever. What's different about this version from the theatrical version is that this logo has "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" under "MODELANE".

**Technique**: Same as the Modelane logo from 1998.

**Audio**: Same as the Modelane logo from 1998, composed by Peter Owens.

**Availability**: No longer current, but still ultra common.

**Legacy**: This logo began a long-running trend of Modelane using their movie logo as their home entertainment logo. However, for some reason, the only change was adding "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" below the word "MODELANE", which therefore creates confusion and causes many people to scratch their heads all the time.

### 11th Logo (April 19, 2013-present)

**Nickname**: "CGI Globe II", "Animated CGI Globe II"

**Logo**: It's basically the 2013 Modelane logo with no video indicator whatsoever. What's different about this version from the theatrical version is that this logo has "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" under "MODELANE".

**Technique**: Same as the Modelane logo from 2013.

**Audio**: Same as the Modelane logo from 2013, composed by Craig Lewis.

**Audio Variants**: Starting on March 8, 2022, a re-orchestration is used.

**Availability**: Current.

**Legacy**: Same as before.