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<div class="WPC-editableContent"> <b>As of 2013, no warning screens or bumpers will be edited on here anymore. Head on over to <a class="external" href="http://companybumpers.wikifoundry.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the new, separate wiki</a> please.</b> <br/><font color="#ffa500"><br/></font> <font size="6"><font color="#ffa500" size="3"><i>Warning descriptions by <font color="#000000">SonicRacer and wisp2007</font></i></font></font><br/><br/><br/><font size="6"><font size="3">1st Warning<br/>(1976-1979)<br/><br/><div align="center"> <img align="right" alt="Paramount Home Video Warning (1976-1979)" height="211" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/cy2Y-RKujF9AqumeyNoJNg17138/GW282H211" title="Paramount Home Video Warning (1976-1979)" width="282"/></div><u>Nicknames:</u> "Warning of Tepidity", "The World's Most Boring Warning"   <br/><br/><u>Warning</u>: We see on a dark blue background the warning text in white. The 1976 [[Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Video]] logo precedes this.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The fade-in transformation from the logo to the Warning.<br/><br/><u>Music</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on Betamax releases and a few VHS releases with the 1976 Paramount Home Video logo.<br/><br/><u>Scare Factor</u>: None, not scary, just<font size="3"> boring.</font><br/><br/><br/><br/>2nd Warning<br/>(1979-1989)</font></font> <div align="center"> <font size="6"><font size="3"><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Warning (1982)" height="216" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/MJ8hCbotDIBaKavl5nD_rw18818/GW296H216" title="Paramount Warning (1982)" width="296"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Home Video Warning (1984-1988)" height="215" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/aiTht2FMMZfWRsDsyj1cMw21064/GW290H215" title="Paramount Home Video Warning (1984-1988)" width="290"/></font></font></div> <div align="center"> <embed allowfullscreen="true" height="225" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/6a5c49009d602b440293a2e4560b080456771d6b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="273" wmode="transparent"/><embed align="bottom" allowfullscreen="true" height="225" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/692c565d125919d50768816b4aa065c790e53048" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="273" wmode="transparent"/></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><font size="6"><font size="3"><u>Nicknames</u>: "Acid Trip", "Taste the Rainbow", "Flowing Colors"<br/><br/><u>Warning</u>: On a background of changing colors (green, yellow, red, pink, purple, blue, and green again) [ala the 1989-2004 MGM/UA Home Video logo] appears the warning text in white in large lettering in a Kabel font.<br/><br/><u>Early Variant</u>: There is an early variation where the text is smaller and in a different font (Bauhaus 93), and in yellow instead of white. This was used until 1984.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The changing colors.<br/><br/><u>Music</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on all releases from this era. The Bauhaus variant can be seen on tapes including later prints of the original release of <i>Grease. </i>The variant is also spotted on <i>Star Trek</i> Paramount tapes from the 1980s (with "Paramount HOME VIDEO" on the side and the Gulf+Western print mountain on the other.)<br/><br/><u>Scare Factor</u>: Low.<br/><br/><br/><br/>3rd Warning<br/>(1989)<br/><br/><img align="right" alt="Paramount Home Entertainment Warning Screen (1989)" height="230" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/qDF9ZvXmcEf3xEIqpT0J5g23477/GW351H230" title="Paramount Home Entertainment Warning Screen (1989)" width="351"/><br/><br/><u>Warning</u>: On a brown gradient background, appears the warning text in white, and in a different font (Times New Roman).<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: Same as the previous screen.<br/><br/><u>Music</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Extremely rare. Spotted on a 1989 VHS release of <i>Star Trek: The Animated Series - Volume Five</i>.<br/><br/><u>Scare Factor</u>: Low.<br/><br/><br/><br/>4th Warning<br/>(1987-2005)<br/><br/><div align="center"> <img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Home Video Warning (1988-1989)" height="210" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/uD2ficWjLmnbXfwVL9AyqA36488/GW282H210" title="Paramount Home Video Warning (1988-1989)" width="282"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Home Video Warning (1989-1995)" height="210" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/o3KN4w-V9L8lVo2fiztM2g33167/GW282H210" title="Paramount Home Video Warning (1989-1995)" width="282"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Home Video Warning (1995-2002, 2003-2006)" height="210" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/rf3gSuWYS6asnF53ziqasw26382/GW282H210" title="Paramount Home Video Warning (1995-2002, 2003-2006)" width="282"/></div> <div align="center"> </div><br/><div align="center"> <img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Home Entertainment Warning Screen - CLG Wiki" height="188" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/3/an_a9-dzdjULGrB1ape-GQ331503/GW251H188" title="Paramount Home Entertainment Warning Screen - CLG Wiki" width="251"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Warning" height="184" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/wlHkjIfiPQsFeeE4NBHSLw64613/GW379H184" title="Paramount Warning" width="379"/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div><u>Nicknames:</u> "The Print Paramountains", "Warning of Boredom", "Feature Presentation just Died"   <br/><br/><u>Warning</u>: Transforming from the zooming-in of "FEATURE PRESENTATION" from the then-current Paramount Home Video logo of the era, we see a wallpaper with the Paramount logo all over it. We see the standard Warning in a different font than the previous ones, similar to one used on <i>Jeopardy!</i>. <br/><br/><br/><u>Variant</u>: In 1995, the font became somewhat more modern looking. <br/><br/><u>Color Backgrounds</u>:<br/></font></font> <ul> <li>  1987-1989: Mauve/white gradient.   </li><li>  1989-2005: Dark blue gradient.</li></ul><br/><u>Bylines</u>:<br/><ul> <li>  1987-1989: <font face="Helvetica">A Gulf+Western Company</font> </li><li>  1989-1995: <font face="Times"><b>A Paramount Communications Company</b></font> </li><li>  1995-2005: A Viacom Company (in the Viacom Wigga-Wigga font) </li></ul><br/><u>Variants:</u> <br/><ul> <li>  One variant had the background in light/dark gray gradient and had more text as well. Seen on most Paramount DVD releases from 1999-2002, such as <i>Wayne's World</i>, <i>Black Sheep</i> and <i>South Park: Bigger, Longer &amp; Uncu</i>t.</li><li>  There is an extremely rare variant on demo tapes (for example, <i>Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys</i>) that asked the viewer to call a certain telephone number and to help prevent video piracy. The text also scrolls up.</li><li>The Canada version has the word WARNING in <font color="#ff0000">red</font><font color="#000000">.</font></li><li><font color="#000000">A variant from 2002 had the text (written in the pre-1995 font) on a plain blue background. This is seen with the special Paramount "Feature Presentation" logo from that year.</font></li><li><font color="#000000">On the 1998 VHS of <i>Titanic</i>, because it didn't contain the "Feature Presentation" logo, this screen instead faded in from black.</font></li></ul><br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The transformation from the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" zoom-in to the Warning.<br/><br/><u>Music</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on all videos from this period. The gray-colored BG varient can be found on most Paramount DVDs.<br/><br/><u>Scare Factor</u>: None, unless you want to count the transformation from the "Feature Presentation" to the Warning.<br/><br/><br/><br/>5th Warning<br/>(2002-)<br/><br/><div align="center"> <img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Warning Screen (A)" height="202" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/3/TZb5_qBAu02uMLVa3tlFxQ333082/GW276H202" title="Paramount Warning Screen (A)" width="276"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Warning Screen (B)" height="202" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/3/D397BbgsELPkoW3zLelGbA342183/GW268H202" title="Paramount Warning Screen (B)" width="268"/><img align="bottom" alt="Paramount Warning 2002" height="204" src="http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/SfKay93TOYbbk44rndpRoQ37831/GW402H204" title="Paramount Warning 2002" width="402"/></div><br/><u>Nicknames:</u> "The Not-So-Scary-as-Heck Warning", "Where's the Paramountains"<br/><br/><u>Warning</u>: On a navy blue background, we see the Warning text, in English on the first screen, and Spanish on the second screen. On most tapes, the Spanish screen isn't there.<br/><br/><u>Variant</u>: Sometimes, the background is eggplant-colored.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: None, unless you want to count the transformation from English to Spanish on some DVDs.<br/><br/><u>Music</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Current on all Paramount releases from 2002-present and DreamWorks releases from 2006-2011.<br/><br/><u>Scare Factor</u>: None.<br/><br/><br/><br/>For international warnings, see [[CIC Video Warning Screen]].</div>