Uploaded May 2011 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Opening boxes with my typical over-reactions!
There are a few double ups at the end. Shane and Billy-Jack you can take your picks if you're interested in any of those.
youtube.com/shane80s
youtube.com/Baby5hambles
Sorry about the abrupt end, bad editing :)
Opening boxes with my typical over-reactions!
There are a few double ups at the end. Shane and Billy-Jack you can take your picks if you're interested in any of those.
youtube.com/shane80s
youtube.com/Baby5hambles
Sorry about the abrupt end, bad editing :)
![Video Classics Opening Logos [various], MEDA & Media Home Entertainment, Electric Blue & VCL Idents](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XiBDJ943EXE/mqdefault.jpg "Video Classics Opening Logos [various], MEDA & Media Home Entertainment, Electric Blue & VCL Idents
Presenting a selection of opening logos from Video Classics, which also includes a variety of other logos for labels they managed for a time, from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. The company distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand, and for a short while had branches in North America.
The opening logos that appear on Video Classics releases were never consistent. For example, some of the Gold titles didnt have the Video Classics Gold logo, but a generic one. Some of the adult films had the second logo shown here, whereas some did not, etc, etc.
The video is as follows [years are estimates]:
* Video Classics Opening Logo [1978 - 1982]
* Video Classics Opening Logo [1983 - 1985]
* Video Classics Opening Logo & Preview Advice [1984]
* Video Classics Closing Promotional Sequence [1984]
* Video Classics Opening Logo Grid Sequence with Copyright Scroll [1983 - 1984]. Idents displayed are as follows:
~ Media Home Entertainment
~ Electric Blue (picture is from EB Vol. 007)
~ Sports World Cinema
~ VCL
~ The Nostalgia Merchant
~ Video Classics (first logo)
~ Wizard Video
~ Movies At Midnight (picture is taken from the cover art of the 1981 adult film Neon Nights)
~ Video Classics Gold
* Video Classics Gold [1984]
* MEDA Home Entertainment [1978 - 1979]
* Media Home Entertainment - PAL tweaked, pitched audio [early 1980s]
* Electric Blue - shortened version [1983 - 1984]
* VCL [1982]
* VCL [1985- 1986]
Note:
* I have since obtained Sports World Cinema but have yet to upload it. The Nostalgia Merchant or Wizard Video logos are easy to find on YouTube.
* There was no separate logo for the Movies At Midnight label.")
![Moonstone Entertainment Ident [USA]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZRv5bOyTjEA/mqdefault.jpg "Moonstone Entertainment Ident [USA]
Opening logo for an American film production and distribution company. From the late 1990s, though I cant recall where I got this one from.")
![Storytime Collection - Opening Logo [PBV Australia / NZ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_kmgvpG1JFI/mqdefault.jpg "Storytime Collection - Opening Logo [PBV Australia / NZ]
Storytime Collection was a sub-label of the Publishing and Broadcasting Video group in Australia and New Zealand, and was co-branded with Star Video. The label specialised in childrens animation films that were released on home video in the mid 1980s.
Their releases were often double features - two cartoons that were around 30 to 45 minutes long. Not all of the releases were double though; usually cartoons than ran for at least one hour were released as a stand alone title.
The anime scenes and characters shown in the grid are as follows:
Captain Future (top left, bottom right)
Candy Candy (top centre)
Little Lulu (top right)
Buster the Bear (middle left)
Jules Vernes From the Earth to the Moon (middle centre)
Peter Cottontail (middle right)
Captain Harlock (bottom left)
Jules Vernes Mysterious Island (bottom centre).")
![Palace Vibrant Video: from Commuter Husbands (1972) [edited]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ajh-DyhhTeo/mqdefault.jpg "Palace Vibrant Video: from Commuter Husbands (1972) [edited]
The start and end of a Palace Vibrant Video, taken from Commuter Husbands (1972), with edits. This label released R-rated softcore and/or bowlderized adult films in Australia on video cassette for the rental market from 1984 onwards, for a few years. This particular one was released in late 1984.
It is as follows:
* R rating advice
* Palace Vibrant Video opening logo
* Delicious (1981) - trailer
* Oh Lucky Boy! (1973) - trailer
* The Pussycat Syndrome (1983) - trailer
* Stay watching advice (edited, with the titles of the movies added by me)
* Start of Commuter Husbands and some of the end credits
* Hot Legs (1979) - trailer
* The Pornbrokers (1973) - trailer
As with other retro start and end videos on my channel, this is presented here for its historical interest and educational value, and to give you an understanding of the type of promotional material they contained. I realise its weirdly edited and I am sorry for this. But very explicit content is not permitted on YouTube (see Community Guidelines). So its either this or nothing at all. It sits behind an age restriction and is not intended for viewing by minors.
The edited trailer for Commuter Husbands itself has also been uploaded and can be viewed by searching YouTube for commuter husbands trailer . It was taken from the release of Delicious.
Aside from the films listed above and in the stay watching advice, other earlier titles released by this label included:
* Emanuelle, The Porno Nights
* Sextoons
* Come Play With Me
* The Ecstasy Girls
* Bad Girls
* Desires Within Young Girls
* Nurses of the 407 ~
* Up n Coming ~
* Emanuelle 3
* Divine Emanuelle
* Love, Lust & Ecstasy
* Tropic of Desire ~
* Object of Desire ~
* Oriental Blue
* Sensations
* Temptations
* Teenage Sex Kitten
* A Scent of Heather
* Intimate Lessons ~
* Expose Me Now ~
And heaps more.
The titles above that have a ~ next to it were also released in their uncut, hardcore X-rated versions on Palace X Video label in 1984.")
