
Examples of this are Wendie Sakakeeny on Basic Instinct, Nick Mills on Chaplin, and Margot Stage on The Piano.
On Live Descriptive Video Service VHS tapes containing the warning, a narrator reads out the text save for the parentheses portion. On the Artisan DVDs of Hot Boyz and Drop Dead Fred, the warning is brighter and more color-saturated than usual. Conversely, on the 1993 Live VHS of The Crying Game, the warning fades in and cuts out. On the first volume of Speed Racer, the warning cuts in and fades out. This variant also appeared on the 2011 Lionsgate DVD of Care Bears: Flower Power. Titles with this variant include Two Lovers, Boarding Gate, Julia, Graduation, Finding Amanda, Black Death, Outlaw, Kiltro, V/H/S, Centurion, and The Good Doctor (on which it last appeared), among others. At the end of some Lionsgate Blu-ray releases and Magnolia Home Entertainment releases, the text is in a different font. On the Artisan DVDs of Stephen King's The Stand and Suicide Kings, the text is in a different font. On Lionsgate releases from 2003 to late 2012, the word " WARNING" is in white and in the same size as the warning text, which is now smaller. Some IVE and Live Home Video releases, as well as Vidmark Entertainment releases, have a gap between two sentences, as well as smoother text. On some tapes, " FBI" appears before " WARNING". Below it is the warning text in white, and in italics. Warning: On a black background, we see the word "WARNING" in red, and in 3D. Home Video logo and followed by the Artisan Entertainment logo of the time. The screen makes a surprise appearance on the 1998 VHS of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, paired with the U.S.A. The variant with the Times New Roman font appeared on Palm Beach Entertainment releases from the mid-Nineties. However, later prints have the normal version instead. It is also seen on tapes from Caballero, especially the earlier variant, which can also be seen on the Monterey Home Video release of Deadly Games, and presumably others. The warning remained on FHE releases until 1990 and can also be seen on early King Bee tapes. It has also appeared on various other companies' tapes too, some of them not affiliated with IVE, FHE, or USA (i.e: Tenth Avenue Video, Magnum Entertainment, V.E.C., VCA Pictures, and Classic Family Entertainment). On non-Elvira-hosted ThrillerVideo tapes such as Murder Motel, the logo music (also heard on Sybil Danning's Adventure Video tapes) begins over the warning.Īvailability: This warning screen was first seen on most FHE/USA/IVE releases from 1983-1988. On Elvira-hosted Thriller video releases, Elvira's into theme begins over the warning. On Magnum Entertainment releases, the first second of the logo theme begins at this warning's final second. Home Video variant, after 7 seconds of silence we hear a loud synthesizer blare that segues into the U.S.A. On non-Elvira-hosted Thriller video releases, the screen flips with the red border to the aforementioned logo. On Celebrity Home Entertainment releases, the words " FBI WARNING" is red and in drop shadow, mentioned above and all in capitals. On Camp Video releases, the background is grey with a white bar (a la the Castle Hendring, New World Pictures and Orion Pictures logos), the warning text is black, the word " WARNING" changes colors and the word " FBI" is red.
That variant appeared on Palm Beach Entertainment releases. A variant exists where the red " WARNING" text isn't blinking, the text is all set in Times New Roman font and fades in and out smoothly.A still version of this was spotted on Monster Madness Volume 1.On some prints of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the red "WARNING" text is strangely deleted.Later Monterey tapes with this warning screen had this split in half at the end and the two halves move toward the left and right edges of the screen to make room for the Monterey Home Video logo.
Home Video releases, the warning screen splits into quarters, which exit to all four sides of the screen. Also, " WARNING" blinked at a faster rate and by the time the screen fades to black, it had blinked 23 times. It's also more compressed to make room for " CABALLERO CONTROL CORPORATION" at the bottom of the black box. Early tapes with this warning had slightly different warning text that was capped off with the copyright year and was in all caps.On some releases, the warning fading in from black rather than cutting from black.Below it is a black box, with the word " WARNING" in red, which blinks on and off, and below it is the Warning text in white. Warning: On a black background, we see a white outline box, with a white filled box with " FBI" in black. Nicknames: "Blinking FBI", "The Headlight"