Prism Entertainment

Logos[]

1st logo: On a black background, we see a blue globe, with longitude and latitude lines. An orange shooting star shoots across twice, and then forms a neon green outlined videotape. The videotape spins around throughout, and then we zoom in from the globe as the videotape flies off-screen. Then shooting stars form eight sets of double dots, eight times, forming a triangle. Then it becomes a black 3D triangle with blue outlining, and a line goes through the triangle downward. Then "PRISM" appears, then a shooting star forms "ENTERTAINMENT". "PRISM" changes its colors throughout.

Variants[]

On some laserdisc releases, and later VHS releases from Prism Entertainment, the first part of the logo is cut out, instead going directly to the triangle forming.
A still logo appears on a blue background, with everything in white, and a slogan under that reading "Reflecting a new light in home video."
A B&W variant exists.

2nd logo: On a smokey blue background, we see a multicolored filmstrip moving around the screen. After about two seconds, a paintbrush appears on screen and follows the filmstrip until it goes off screen. After the filmstrip goes off screen, the paintbrush paints a straight multicolored line with small squares on each side, making the line look like a filmstrip. The paintbrush then zooms across the area below the line, going off screen and creating the text "PRISM PICTURES." The letters of the text spin around a few times, and then stop. Finally, the smoke in the background turns purple for a second, and then disappears, leaving the background completely black.

3rd logo: On a white gradient background, we see six white panels fly in from random parts of the screen extremely fast. The panels collide to form a cube, and the Prism Pictures logo appears on all six sides. The cube then tilts diagonally to face us, and zooms foward, taking up the entire screen.

Variant[]

On some tapes, the animation is slightly different. The panels come in from different angles, and fly a lot slower. Also, before the panels collide, they spin, and then slowly come together.

Music/Sounds[]

1st logo: A creepy synth tune with synthesized sound effects that resemble a zapping noise when the shooting stars appear. Recorded using an Oberheim OB-X synthesizer, also by Ed Kramer.

2nd logo: A fancy-sounding fanfare with tube sounds and xylophone sounds.

3rd logo: Either a droning synth theme fading into two gentle music hums, during which are loud, descending hums, thuds, whooshes, and a twinkle (at least in the logo in the second video above), or a glorious calm fanfare with tube sounds and xylophone sounds. On most releases, the logo is silent. Sometimes there will be an announcer saying "Coming soon from Prism Pictures."

Scare Factor[]

1st logo: Low. The music can creep some out, but this is a great logo, and it is a favorite of many.

2nd logo: None.

3rd logo: Minimal. Aside from the panels coming out of nowhere and zooming towards the screen, the droning synth theme and sounds could catch first-time viewers off-guard.