Guild Home Video (UK) Warning Screen
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Warning descriptions and captures by Logophile
Video capture by Meanmanmartin2007, pubwebmaster and swedishintros
1st Warning
(1980-1983)
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Warning: On a blue background, The big yellow word "NOTICE" scrolls up, then the warning text follows. After that is a line underneath and below that is "GUILD HOME VIDEO LTD".
FX/SFX: The words scrolling
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen on tapes in the UK from Guild Home Video.
Scare Factor: Minimum to medium, it depeneds on how you feel about the 1980-1983 Guild Home Video logo that follows it.
2nd Warning
(1983-1990s)
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Warning: On a blue background, the white words "It is unlawful to" types itself in, then the following wipes itself in one at a time.
1. Copy, alter or cut all or any part of the material
on this tape, the packaging or the labelling without
the Copyright Owner's consent.
2. Show the film to any public or private
audience whether fee-paying or not.
3. Hire, diffuse, broadcast or trade in the cassettes
other than with written permission from
Guild Home Video Limited.
4. This video cassette is a genuine first generation
copy produced by Guild Home Video Limited.
After a moment "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" appears below. This is smaller then the rest of the text.
FX/SFX: The first part typing itself in, the numbered parts wiping themselves in.
Music/Sounds: None, but videos with the 1983-1985 Guild Home Video logo has the first part of the theme extended here that plays throughout the warning.
Availability: Same as first warning.
Scare Factor: Minimum.
3rd Warning
(1990s-1997)
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Warning: On a blue background with a light blue Guild logo is the same text from before. Here though, the first part, "It is unlawful to;" wipes itself above, then below that the parts as seen in the first one (minus the numbering) fade in one at a time, with "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" (smaller than the rest of the text) fading in simultaneously with the last part of the warning.
FX/SFX: The words wiping themself on and fading in.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Same as 1st warning.
Scare Factor: None.
Warning descriptions and captures by Logophile
Video capture by Meanmanmartin2007, pubwebmaster and swedishintros
1st Warning
(1980-1983)
<embed allowfullscreen="true" height="184" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/67baaef3e2a14d3567e41266561bf20bc80bd5ac" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="223" wmode="transparent"/>
Warning: On a blue background, The big yellow word "NOTICE" scrolls up, then the warning text follows. After that is a line underneath and below that is "GUILD HOME VIDEO LTD".
FX/SFX: The words scrolling
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen on tapes in the UK from Guild Home Video.
Scare Factor: Minimum to medium, it depeneds on how you feel about the 1980-1983 Guild Home Video logo that follows it.
2nd Warning
(1983-1990s)
<embed allowfullscreen="true" height="204" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/630d58ad0a31f9277c073fc6f3f282139b7f3d29" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="249" wmode="transparent"/>Warning: On a blue background, the white words "It is unlawful to" types itself in, then the following wipes itself in one at a time.
1. Copy, alter or cut all or any part of the material
on this tape, the packaging or the labelling without
the Copyright Owner's consent.
2. Show the film to any public or private
audience whether fee-paying or not.
3. Hire, diffuse, broadcast or trade in the cassettes
other than with written permission from
Guild Home Video Limited.
4. This video cassette is a genuine first generation
copy produced by Guild Home Video Limited.
After a moment "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" appears below. This is smaller then the rest of the text.
FX/SFX: The first part typing itself in, the numbered parts wiping themselves in.
Music/Sounds: None, but videos with the 1983-1985 Guild Home Video logo has the first part of the theme extended here that plays throughout the warning.
Availability: Same as first warning.
Scare Factor: Minimum.
3rd Warning
(1990s-1997)
<embed allowfullscreen="true" height="207" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/e4ded244c128017c0420d7b24e551f10cc05c29b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="252" wmode="transparent"/>Warning: On a blue background with a light blue Guild logo is the same text from before. Here though, the first part, "It is unlawful to;" wipes itself above, then below that the parts as seen in the first one (minus the numbering) fade in one at a time, with "Copyright exists in the material in/on this cassette" (smaller than the rest of the text) fading in simultaneously with the last part of the warning.
FX/SFX: The words wiping themself on and fading in.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Same as 1st warning.
Scare Factor: None.