Fox Video

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## Fox Video

### Fate:

Folded into 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

## Background

CBS/Fox Video was renamed "Fox Video" in 1991, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998, when Fox Entertainment Group acquired CBS's interest in CBS/Fox and renamed it to "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment" on March 16, 1995, alternating with the Fox Video name until 1998.

## 1st Logo (June 27, 1991-1995)

**Nicknames:** "Shining Searchlights", "Gold Tower", "Fox Structure", "Golden Fox Structure", "20th Century Fox Structure", "'80s Structure"

**Visuals:** On a blue gradient background, we see a simplified Fox structure, but it reads "**FOX VIDEO**". The logo shines, a la the 1985 Touchstone Pictures logo.

**Variants:**

* Widescreen and scope versions exist.
* A B&W version exists. It can be seen on home video releases of some B&W films, such as *Miracle on 34th Street* (1947).
* On some Media Home Entertainment releases, such as *Scanners II: The New Order*, the words "DISTRIBUTED BY" appear above the logo and no announcer spiel is used.
* On the 1993 UK rental VHS release of *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York*, the animation is slowed down to fit the 1982 20th Century Fox fanfare.
* A special version where the logo starts as normal, but the logo zooms out and turns 3D was spotted on UK widescreen VHS releases. Also, the arched word "WIDESCREEN" pans vertically across the screen.
* On the Fox Video Sentimental promo, the logo is zoomed out on a black background with the words "Available from FoxVideo" below. Also, it is still.

**Technique:** Computer effects.

**Audio:** None.

**Availability:** Rare. It can be seen on releases, such as *Hot Shots*. It first appeared on the Yellow Ribbon Collection of war movies, including *The Man Who Never Was*. One of the last tapes to use this logo in the US was *Love Potion #9*. Despite official usage ending around 1993, Australian releases continued using this logo until 1995.

**Legacy:** In most Fox logos, the gaping holes between the letters are usually filled up with a different color to give a clear indication of what the letter is. However, the way these are made make it look like that they are floating. Also, the shining on the TCF fanfare variant is clearly looped poorly. In addition, one of the searchlight bases is obviously clipping through the circular platform. Ironically, the widescreen version looks a lot better than the normal version due to how it crops out the clipping, the fact that it's practically a still logo helping matters. The same can't be said for the widescreen version of the next logo...

## 2nd Logo (May 26, 1993-1998)

**Nicknames:** "Rotating Tower", "The Ugly Tower", "Fox Structure II", "20th Century Fox Structure II", "'80s Structure II"

**Visuals:** On a dark teal background, we see the tower from before, only this time in gold and purple, in an extreme top-left angle. The camera pans down and then across the structure (a la the 20th Century Studios logos from 1994 onwards) as the structure glows until we get to the more familiar angle. The clouds behind the finished product slowly move.

**Variants:**

* A B&W version exists. This can be seen on the 1993 VHS of *Young Frankenstein*.
* A shorter version exists where the logo starts halfway through the animation. It can be seen on the 1995 20th Century Fox Selections releases of *Young Guns II* and *Dutch*.
* A short version with more vibrant colors than usual appears on the promo for the VHS release of *Mrs. Doubtfire* and the 1994 VHS release of *Speed*.
* An extended version exists where the searchlights loop (a la the 1981 20th Century Fox logo).

**Technique:** CGI.

**Audio:** None.

**Audio Variants:**

* Sometimes, the 1979 20th Century Fox fanfare is heard. This can be mainly found on PAL releases.
* The extended version uses the 1982 20th Century Fox fanfare.

**Availability:** Uncommon. It can be seen on releases, such as *Baby's Day Out*. The first releases with this logo include *Used People*, *Toys* and *Hoffa*. The last tapes to use this logo were *Miracle on 34th Street* (1994) and *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie*. Despite official use ending around 1996, Finnish releases kept using this logo until 1998.

**Legacy:** Many consider this to be an ugly logo, due to its weird, dull colors and off-model appearance. The letters also don't quite match the TCF logo (which the previous logos had in their favor). The widescreen version also looks severely cropped.

## 3rd Logo (1994-1995)

The logo zoomed inThe finished product

**Nicknames:** "Print Searchlights", "Fox Structure III", "Print Fox Structure", "20th Century Fox Structure III", "'50s/'60s/'70s Structure"

**Visuals:** It's basically the color version of the Fox Video print logo, which is a modified version of the 1953 20th Century Fox logo, but with the structure reading "**FOX VIDEO**", which zooms out on a black background.

**Variant:** On the trailer for *Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary Collection*, the words "*from FoxVideo*" appear below.

**Technique:** Computer effects. Like the movie logo, this was designed by Rocky Longo.

**Audio:**

* The ending theme of the trailer with a female announcer saying "From Fox Video".
* On the trailer for *Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary Collection*, the logo is silent.

**Availability:** Rare. It can be seen on releases, such as *The Shirley Temple VHS Collection*.

**Legacy:** None.

## 4th Logo (December 19, 1995-March 1998)

**Nicknames:** "CGI Structure", "Fox Structure IV", "20th Century Fox Structure IV", "'90s/2000s Structure", "CGI City Skyline Searchlights"

**Visuals:** On a sunset sky background (recycled from the 1994 20th Century Fox logo) with a city skyline, we pan to the right to reveal the structure from the previous three logos, but redone in CGI to match the 1994 movie logo. Also, the font of the structure is now Futura Extra Bold.

**Variants:**

* A slightly longer version was spotted on the 1995 VHS release of *Die Hard with a Vengeance* and the 1996 demo VHS of *The Great White Hype*.
* There is a variant where the "**FOX VIDEO**" text is darker.

**Technique:** CGI. Like the movie logo, this was designed by the late Kevin Burns and animated at Flip Your Lid Animation and Topix.

**Audio:** Usually none.

**Audio Variant:** On the 1996 demo VHS of *The Great White Hype*, when the logo is finished, the opening song plays.

**Availability:** More common than any of the previous logos. This logo usually followed the 1995 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo. It can be seen on VHS releases of the era, such as *Journey to the Center of the Earth*. One of the last releases to use this logo were early copies of *Anastasia* (this logo was removed on later copies).

**Legacy:** This is often seen as the best of the Fox Video logos. It has very nice animation for the time, the concept of which can be seen as a precursor to the Fox Searchlight Pictures logo.

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