Sony Music BMG Music Entertainment/Sony Wonder Warning Screens

These warning screens are from CBS Music Video Enterprises, SMV Enterprises, Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Music Video, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Epic Music Video, Wire Entertainment and Sony Wonder. The background is blue-black gradient with the white warning text with black drop shadow and the underline.

## 1987-Present

Warning: On a blue-black gradient background, we see the white Helvetica words "**FBI WARNING:**" with a red underline, and underneath them is the generic "250,000 fine" warning text.

Variants:

* On early VHS releases from CBS Music Video Enterprises, the red underline is white and reaches the colon, with the background being a dark blue gradient. The text is also slightly compressed and has a comma after "reproduction".
* On GoodTimes Home Video and Kids Klassics Home Video VHS tapes, the red underline is deleted and the “250,000 fine” warning text is replaced with the “Title 17, U.S. Code” warning text.
* A similar version of the above variant exists on early VHS tapes from GoodTimes Home Video, where the word “FBI” is larger than everything else.

* On *The Legend of Frosty the Snowman*, the warning screen was remade to coincide with the widescreen format (albeit with very little effort). The original 4:3 format is plastered slightly offset on a stretched version of its gradient, and a period is in place of the comma in the price value.
* On DVDs such as *Alice in Chains: Music Bank - The Videos, Luminous Visions, Jennifer Lopez: Feelin So Good, Kipper The Do**g* ***(Veemon Vision), ''***Cyberscape, Flashpoint, Computer Animation Classics, & Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017), laserdisc artefacts are present.
* On *Sesame Street: Elmo's Easy as ABC*, the warning is on a black background, lacks a shadow and an underline, is in a different font, and is much shorter than it usually is, being about four to five seconds. No fading is applied this time around, meaning it simply cuts to the Sony Wonder logo with very little delay.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

As seen on VHS Tapes and DVDs, such as *Rainbow Fish* episodes, *Little Witch* (1999), *Sesame Street* episodes, *Elmo's World* episodes, *Ren and Stimpy*, *Hercules* (1997), *John Denver: The Wildlife Concert* (1995) tapes of *Beavis & Butthead,* Rankin Bass’s Christmas specials *Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Frosty the Snowman* and *The Little Drummer Boy,* *Short Circuit* (1986; TriStar), *Short Circuit 2* (1988; TriStar), *Computer Animation Celebration*, *John Mayer's Heavier Things* , *Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium, Computer Animation Showcase,* *The Forbidden Dance is Lambada'''*, *Street Fighters II The Animated Series*, *Transformers The Movie: 20th Anniversary Edition*, *Noah's Ark, Jabberwocky* (1977), *The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad,* *The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger, The Muppet Movie,* Kathy Smith MTV Gamebrain'''*,* The Real World,WORLDS AGE *(1999 Miramax),* Yentl *(1983),* KARABN, Dragonworld (1994), Eyewitness DK Weather, Pokémon: The First Movie *(1999),* The Black Stallion Returns *(1983),* Ancient Alien*,* Rodan, Godzilla vs Mothra (1964), Godzilla's Revenge, Terror Of Mechagodzilla, Godzilla King Of Monsters (1956), *and others.*

## 1997-present

It is slightly different. This was also used for **Cartoon Network Video**, **Phase 4 Films** (along with **KaBoom! Entertainment**; children's division of **Phase 4 Films**

As Seen On VHS Tapes &  DVDs Such As *Flashpoint*, *Short Circuit* (1986; TriStar), *Short Circuit 2* (1988; TriStar), *Eyewitness DK Weather, Pokémon: The First Movie* (1999), *Dinosaurs Volumes 1 to 11,* *Jabberwocky* (1977), *The Black Stallion Returns* (1983), *KARABN, And Others.*

: Same as the respective warnings.

## 1999-2012

**Warning**: Same as the 1996-2004 Lyrick/HiT Entertainment interpol warning screen, except the background is the same as the Canadian Live/Artisan Warning scroll background.

**Variants**:

* On early DVDs from 1999 to 2005, the text is in italics.
* On the 2011 Extreme Edition DVD of *Speed 2 (1997)*, the text is in a different font, the background is instead yellow-black, and the gradient runs in a different direction.
* On certain VHS tapes and the 2005 DVD of *Primeval Stories*, the original 1996-2004 Lyrick Studios interpol warning is used instead.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on 1999-2012 Sony Music Entertainment/Sony Days Entertainment/Columbia Music Video/Sony Wonder/Wire Entertainment DVDs Such As as *Kathy Smith Kickboxing Workout, Droid DNA (2001), a few Volumes of Dinosaurs, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, TImon and Pumbaa: Congo on like This, The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger, The Muppet Movie, Sesame Street - Get Up and Dance, WORLDS AGE (1999 Miramax), Yentl (1983), KARABN, Dragonworld (1994), The Forbidden Dance is Lambada, Bad Santa (2004),* & More*.*

## 2005-2011

**Warning**: This is almost the same as the Alliance Atlantis Canada warning screen. On a black background, we see the red underlined word "WARNING" or "ATTENTION" (in the style of DreamWorks Home Entertainment).

**Variants:** On the 2011 DVD box-set release of *The Classic Pokemon DVD Collection*, the warning screen's fades out fast is a little more one second at the end.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: seen on at the Begin of 2005-11 SMV/SDE/CMV/Wire Entertainment DVDs as *Alice in Chains: Music Bank - The Videos*, *Jennifer Lopez: Feelin So Good*, *Sesame Street All Star Alphabet,* *Dinosaurs Volumes 11 to 22,* and appeared at the End on the 2006 DVD of *Transformers The Movie: 20th Anniversary Edition,* & fades out fast version, on the 2011 DVD box-set release of *The Classic Pokemon DVD Collection*,

## 2006-2008 (Unbreakable Variant)

A Same Screen as the 2001 DVD release of *Unbreakable*, after the 2nd warning, the first screen appears again only to break.

As Seen On **2006** 20th Anniversary Edition DVD Such As ***Short Circuit*** (1986; TriStar).

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