Opening and Closing to Charlotte's Web 1980's VHS (Canadian Copy)

Here's the opening and closing to the 1980's Canadian VHS of "Charlotte's Web."
Start:
1. Astral Films Limited Logo
2. Paramount Pictures Logo
3. Opening Credits
End:
1. End Credits
2. MPAA Rating Screen (Brief)
©1972 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
Sagittarius Productions, Inc.
Specifications of Tape:
-Distributor: Astral Video
-Original Canadian video release; uses film's original 16mm transfer (different from the print used by Paramount on their original and subsequent video releases). This film transfer was also used on international video releases.
-Catalog number: VI 106
-Print/press date: None
-Rated G.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in any way, shape, or form. The material shown in this video belongs to and are registered trademarks of their original and respective copyright owners. No copyright infringement is intended.

[@WillCWilson]

I love how the MPAA logo appears for like 1 second as though it were spliced on [Edit: It more than likely WAS]

[@OmegaAero2K8]

I remembered this movie since I was 6 in 2014. I also have the 1993 American VHS of this.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I’ve never seen this version before. It has the Astral Films Limited logo at the beginning that you don’t see them too often as well as the 1968 Paramount logo. The US release doesn’t have the Astral Films logo, it just starts with the same logo, and that’s it. The closing has the MPAA rating for about a second and then it goes away. This is why you don’t see them anymore. This was taken directly from 16mm film prints in which you don’t see them on any of the US home video releases, because Paramount Home Video released this on VHS and Betamax in the US around 1980 or 1981 since they used the video tape master rather than film. Later releases were digitally remastered and fully restored, so does DVD, Blu-Ray and digital releases.

[@MrServoRetro]

Just to clarify, Astral Films was a Canadian film and media company, not American. Also, a lot of these Astral Video releases use their film logo rather than a video logo until around 1985-1990.

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

MTN Productions The master on this copy was also used for the 1979 Paramount Home Video big-box VHS, which uses the "Boring Mountain" logo, before they used the "Glowing Mountain" logo in the early 1980s.

[@WillCWilson]

@@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039 Minus the Astral Films Presents logo?

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

@@WillCWilson Yes.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

Interesting how this release appears to use a different film print unlike the USA Paramount releases. The fact Astral used a faded 16mm print version reminds me of the way "The Hobbit" [the Rankin Bass special] looked on a VHS release released by MNTEX.

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

AndrewsMagicandMore This was also the print used for the oldest VHS version of the movie (the original 1970's "big gatefold box" versions dating from 1977-1979 with the "Boring Mountain" logo at the beginning).

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

AndrewsMagicandMore Like Astral did, Paramount also used the same faded 16mm print version of this film on their original VHS of the movie in 1979 with the "Boring Mountain" logo at the beginning of the VHS.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

@@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039 However, the Paramount releases of the film starting with the 1981 LaserDisc have used a different telecine transfer which have been used for all of the other VHS releases up until 1999.

[@WillCWilson]

0:25 Did someone's finger cover the projector lens?

[@mrarthurtvfan2001vgcpofficial]

R.I.P Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson & Rex Allen.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

Do you really HAVE to put up "R.I.P" comments on VHS uploads? Is that really necessary? Is this your way of being a "Debbie Downer"? Or are you a sadist?

[@mrarthurtvfan2001vgcpofficial]

Uh I Know for That is @@AndrewsMagicandMore.

[@jamieimai9328]

Also R.I.P. Willam Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Charles Nicols, Iwao Takamoto and the Sherman Brothers.

[@Tails94able]

No Paramount logo at the end

[@paramountwindowsdude02]

Canadian vhs release of Charlotte's web looks like public domain film quality

[@WillCWilson]

Nah, public domain looks worse than this.

[@paramountwindowsdude02]

No seriously it really looks like the film was placed somewhere in a dusty icky place like how most public domain VHS companies sources their Cartoon film reels

[@WillCWilson]

@@paramountwindowsdude02 Or like the film stock it was being printed onto was cheap.

[@paramountwindowsdude02]

yep that too

[@FanCntrlNetwork]

Did Astral distribute Paramount releases in general in Canada during this time? or was it just this one release that they distributed on video there in the 80s.

[@jacobdodd9065]

It really is slightly different from Paramount's own original video releases.

[@PatFrenchLeafsFan1]

Love that Paramount logo! Do you have the ones from Godfather VHSs?

[@thethrashpanda]

Admittedly, the quality is shitty, given its age. But, I just love that. It’s very endearing to me.

[@MrServoRetro]

I agree.

[@Darkbotsz5]

80s Paramount pictures Transformers. G1 references. 0:23.

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

Can you please upload the full VHS of this on Internet Archive?

[@MrServoRetro]

Unfortunately, it got taken down from that site after a while of being put up.

[@princessdaisytherarevhscol4039]

MrServoRetro So how can you try this again?

[@ryanburkhart4898]

Cue Mark at 4:04