BBC Video is a video company of the United Kingdom and United States. It was formed in circa 1979. Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media, primarily for viewing on television or computer monitors. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

The Company

BBC Video was well known for its releases of Fawlty Towers, mostly in America. Titles released in the United Kingdom were released through the company itself, while in America titles were released through CBS-Fox. Among their first Children releases was a Chinese animation, Nezha nao hai, released under the title "Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings". Ten years later the company received an overhaul. The logo (see under) changed and the look of the tapes changed with it. Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ...

Logo

BBC Video 1981-1990 - Opening

Many colored parallelograms come from the top and bottom of the screen towards the middle, where a white four-pointed star is being "drawn." The colored shapes stop coming from the bottom as an orange line with a V-shaped bend in the middle arrives, accompanied by a "shadow" effect. It stops below the star, and the parallelograms return from the bottom as the letters "BBC" and "IDEO" are drawn in white at either side of the "V." The line with the "V" is traced over with white. All the parallelograms finally stop as the logo completes and the star in it shines.

BBC Video 1981-1990 - Closing

The rainbow parallelograms are flying towards the BBC VIDEO logo, which disappears as if it is being played backwards; that is, it's sort of being "drawn away." The parallelograms stop and the four-pointed star remains. As a copyright notice appears, the star "shines" and is drawn away too, leaving a small light which flashes a few times and then fades.

The accompanying BBC Enterprises copyright disclaimer was deleted from nearly all US releases by CBS-Fox, the American licensee.

External Links

BBC Official Website