LaserPacific Media Corporation

## 1st logo (1997-2001, June 23, 2002)

Angel Heart variantMoonstruck variantPi variantMortal Kombat: Annihilation variantDon Juan DeMarco variantMerlin variantBelly variantThe Wedding Singer variantThe Great Train Robbery variantTImon and Pumbaa: Congo on like This variantDroid DNA variantlogo: On a light blue background with two white and blue lights shining, the drop shadow text *DVD ENCODING AND AUTHORING BY* in BankGothic Regular font is above the LaserPacific logo.

VARIANTS:

* On later releases by Sony Music Video, when the text is in red.
* On *Angel Heart*, it appeared on a shot from the DVD menu.
* On *Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery*, it appears over a hazy yellow background.
* On the original release of *Moonstruck*, it appears superimposed over a scene of Cher and Nicolas Cage that was also used for the disc's copyright screen.
* On *The Wedding Singer*, the film's logo (with *DVD* next to it) appears above *authoring, encoding and graphics by*, with the LaserPacific logo below.
* On *Pi*, it appears over a static background numerical background. In befitting the monochromatic tone of the movie, everything is in gray.
* On *Mortal Kombat: Annihilation*, it appears over a stormy background, with flashes of lightning.
* On *Don Juan DeMarco*, it appears on a grey piece of paper with *Credit* (in a fancy script font) on top of a red line, and *Authoring, Compression and Graphic Design by* below the line.
* On *Merlin (1998)*, it appears on a purple background.
* On *Belly (1998)*, it appears on a white-yellow background.
* On *Dark City*, it appears on a dark background with lightning.
* On *The Great Train Robbery*, it appears over a reddish-orange shot of a train.
* On *TImon & Pumbaa: Congo On Like This*, it appears on a shot from a cartoon, Timon and Pumbaa almost getting eaten by the wild dog.
* On *Droid DNA,* it appears on a green and blue shot of beams of light.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: It appears at the end on the New Line Cinema DVDs of *The Lawnmower Man*, and *Spawn (1997)*, as well as the Live Entertainment releases of *Young Guns*, *Sophie's Choice*, and *Jacob's Ladder* Sub-variants exist, mentioned below and appeared on Sony Music Entertainment/Columbia Music Video DVDs. and some custom variations on 1997-99 New Line DVDs of *Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, The Wedding Singer, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Don Juan DeMarco*, *Dark City*, it appeared on MGM DVDs *Moonstruck, & The Great Train Robber (1978)*, the Artisan Entertainment DVDs of *Pi,* *Merlin (1998)* & *Belly (1998)*, and the 2001 Sony Days Entertainment DVD Release of *TImon & Pumbaa: Congo On Like This* and the 2002 Columbia Music Video DVD of *Droid DNA.*

## 2nd logo (1998-2003)

Logo: On a black background, the LaserPacific logo, which is a DVD shape in a eye shape with many different lines, and the words *LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION* appear via a wipe effect. Then the LaserPacific logo gleams as a large gray DVD logo (which was narrower than usual) fades in behind it. After that, the white words *ENCODING* and *AUTHORING* appear on the top and bottom via a wipe effect as well.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo and text wiping in, the fading of the DVD logo, and the white words appearing.

Music/Sounds:

* On New Line Cinema, and Veemon Vision releases, you can hear a whoosh, as well as a dark bang as the logo gleams.
* A silent version appears on MGM, Sony Music Video, Artisan, and Morgan Creek/Warner Home Video releases, as well as the New Line releases of *Besieged* and *Love Jones* and the USA Home Entertainment release of *One Night at McCool's*.
* A mud splat or cream splat sound appears on *Kipper Cuddly Critters, Mimes,* and *Sesame Street: Kids' Favorite Songs 2*.

Availability: Fairly common.

* Seen at the end of New Line Cinema releases such as *Lost in Space*, *Boiler Room*, *Trial and Error*, *The Little Vampire (2000)*, *Thirteen Days*, *Blade II*, *Price of Glory*, *The Bachelor*, *Feeling Minnesota*, *The Cell*, *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, *Blow*, the *Austin Powers* sequels, *Pump Up the Volume*, and *15 Minutes*.
* It was also seen at the end of MGM releases such as the original releases of *Spaceballs* and *Hoosiers*, *UHF*, *Sleeper*, *Escape from New York*, *The Big Country*, *The Hallelujah Trail*, *Chato's Land*, T*he Crocodile Hunter Collision Course*, *Double Impact*, *Death Warrant*, *Along Came Jones*, *F/X 2*, *Hannah and Her Sisters*, *Igby Goes Down*, *Original Sin*, *Deuces Wild*, *City Slickers*, *This is Spinal Tap*, *24 Hour Party People*, and the first season of *Stargate SG-1*.
* It was also seen on Artisan Entertainment releases such as *Requiem for a Dream*, *Wishmaster*, *Noah's Ark (1999)*, *Stir of Echoes*, and the Special Edition of *The Doors*.
* On Morgan Creek releases distributed by Warner Home Video, it appears on *The In Crowd*, *Trial by Jury*, *Stay Tuned*, *Diabolique*, and the 2002 reissue of *True Romance* (all rare cases since Warner Home Video DVDs use no authoring logo).
* It also appears on the USA Home Entertainment DVD of *One Night at McCool's*.
* also appeared on Sony Music Entertainment DVD Releases of *Ancient Alien (1999)*, *Kathy Smith Kickboxing Workout*, *Sesame Street Do the Alphabet, Computer Animation Classics, Computer Animation Showcase, Indigo Girls: Watershed: 10 Years of Underground Video, Luminous Visions* & *Kipper The Visitor and Pig's Present.*
* And Veemon Vision DVD Releases as Kipper Tiger Tales, among the others.
* and it doesn't appeared on 2002 DVDs such as Hamtaro and the Ham Hams and Ham-Hams Head Seaward.

## 3rd logo (2003-2014)

Logo: On a black background, a split red arrow is pointing at a DVD emitting lights before it rotates to the side and "DVD" appearing on the DVD. More arrows come in to the DVD and disappear as a oval outline draws around the DVD and "ENCODING" appears on it. It becomes a solid sky blue circle via a countdown effect with lines and arrows on it and then it has "AUTHORING" appearing on it as it becomes yellow, then red, and more lines draw around it. The logo zooms out completely as it quickly turns into the logo from before. The text "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" fades in below.

Variant: On Sony BMG Music Entertainment DVDs such as Pokemon The First Movie (1999) - PG rated Edition, Sabrina Friends Forever, and Flashpoint (1984), a new still version appeared it replaced "DVD Encoding" to "Compression" beside the logo with the white box, "LLC" is attached to "MEDIA CORPORATION" and the white text says "LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA", the phone call is "(213) 462-6266" appeared.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo forming.

Music/Sounds: Beeps and synths. Sometimes, the logo can be silent, as seen on the New Line Cinema releases of *Final Destination 3*, *Snakes on a Plane*, and *The Lord of the Rings* sequels.

Availability: Common.

* Seen at the end of New Line DVDs such as a re-release of *The Mask*, *Friday After Next*, *After the Sunset*, *Son of the Mask*, *Secondhand Lions*, *Final Destination 2*, *Elf*, *Blade: Trinity*, and *How to Eat Fried Worms*.
* It was also seen at the end of MGM DVD releases from 2003 to mid 2005, such as *Lightning, the White Stallion*, *West Side Story*, *Thunderbird 6*, *Judgment at Nuremberg*, *Agent Cody Banks*, *Bowling for Columbine* (the Canadian DVD has the Asset Digital logo instead), *Follow That Dream*, *Hotel Rwanda*, *Junior Bonner*, *The Brother from Another Planet*, *Walking Tall*, *Good Boy!*, *Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids*, *Babes in Toyland* (1997), *The Outer Limits: Aliens Among Us Collection*, *Bubba Ho-Tep*, the second season of *Green Acres*, all three volumes of *The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection*, the special edition of *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly*, the collector's edition of *Spaceballs*, and the *Rocky Anthology* box set.
* It even appeared on the 2003 Warner Home Video DVD of *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*.
* Weirdly, this plasters the previous logo on a mid-2000s reprint of *The Corruptor*.
* appeared on Veemon Vision Releases in 2004-2014 such as *Magic Knight Rayearth (1994), Kipper Helps Out, Marmaduke 1981, Mysterious Thief Saint Tail (1995), Mew Mew Power Volume 3 to 8, The Muppet Show Sandy Duncan, Ishtar (1987), Macedonia (1996), John Wayne in Rio Grande, John Wayne in The Quiet Man & others*.
* it appeared on Sony Music Entertainment DVD releases in 2004-2011 such as *Transformers the Movie (1986) 20th Anniversary Edition,* few episodes of *Eyewitness DK,* and *Dinosaurs volumes 11 to 22*. and a new still variant appeared on Pokemon The First Movie (1999) - PG rated Edition, Sabrina Friends Forever, and Flashpoint (1984), as well as the 2008 Viz Media DVD *Pokémon - The Rise of Darkrai* such as immediately followed by the Dragonstorm Creative Studios logo.

## 4th Logo (2004-11)

Logo: On a yellow and white gradient background instead of light blue, with the drop shadow text "DVD ENCODING AND AUTHORING BY" in blue but "LASER" in purple "PACIFIC" in red and "MEDIA CORPORATION" in green above the logo.

Variants:

* On *Amy (anime) (2000),* it appears on a purple smokey tie-dye background with red sound waves.
* On *La Quinta (1999)*, it appears on a purple window with a setting sun background.
* On *Dinosaur (2000)* and *Run 1991,* it appears on a shot from the film.
* On *The Voltage Bomb call*, it appeared on blue-purplish lightning storm, when the text is in outlines.
* On *The Adventures of the Meteor (2006)*, it appears on a space background.
* On *Star Wars: The Clone Wars film*, we see the logo appeared on the shot from the film, when Clone Troopers battles the Battle Droids.
* On *William Juelfs Ancient Times Series (2006-10)* of *William's Halloween Collection*, it appears on William's Bedchair.
* On *The Classic Pokemon DVD Collection*, it appears over a stormy background and features Ash Ketchum Pikachu Dawn & Piplup but the eye shape is in right.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo is still good.

Music/Sounds: none.

Availability: Common. It appears on the 2004-08 Veemon Vision DVDs of Kipper Playtime among with the others, and appeared on 2003-05 Viz Video DVDs.

## 5th Logo (2006-present)

**Logo**: On a white background, four different colored arrows scroll into a 2-D version of the LaserPacific logo from the previous logo, with a gray "3" in it. The teal part then turns into yellow, then red, as the "3" changes to a teal "2" and several shots of a LaserPacific-branded car, which gets increasingly smaller and ultimately drives away as the LaserPacific logo forms. It eases back, and the car passes through it, leaving the company name in its wake.

**FX/SFX**: The animations of the logo and car.

**Music/Sounds**: A techno tune and some car driving sounds.

**Availability**: Impossibly rare. Consider yourself very lucky if you come across this one. This appears on a sales DVD of the pilot to the short-lived NBC sitcom *Twenty Good Years*. includes Sony BMG Music Entertainment DVDs.