Abbey Home Media

Abbey Home Media was a British home entertainment company, formed on March 4, 2002, by the husband and wife team of Ian and Anne Miles, shortly after its predecessor, Abbey Home Entertainment, was folded into Just Entertainment and the latter filed for administration. AHM acquired the home video division of Just, in addition to all former AHE assets and units, including Tempo Pre-School.

The company continued to release home media up until March 16, 2020, when it was announced by the company's social media pages and website that the company had ceased operations due to "uncertain circumstances", following the death of Anne Miles, the company's co-founder, on May 4, of the same year (her husband, Ian, passed away prior to his wife's death). The company was fully dissolved on December 13, 2022, with their assets currently owned by other companies.

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Abbey Home Media

Contents 1st Logo (2001-2005, 2014-2015) 2nd Logo (2014-March 16, 2020)

Abbey Home Media DVD

Contents   Logo (November 11, 2002-2014)

Abbey Home Media

1st Logo (2001-2005, 2014-2015)

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Visuals:

• 2001-2005: Just the purple words "Abbey Home Media" in a stacked format on a white screen.
• 2014-2015: Same as before, but the text is in a modified Calibri font.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Audio Variant: On one CBeebies DVD, the sound from the Abbey Home Media DVD logo is used.

Availability:

• 2001-2005: Seen on VHS releases from the company, such as Rupert and the Sage of Um, Bumper Favourites, Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, various Mona the Vampire releases, the 2003 UK VHS release of The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale, and the 2004 UK VHS release of Goodtimes's Jungle Book, and so fourth.
  • It can also be found on a small number of DVD releases, such as The New Adventures of Mona the Vampire and Wow! That's What I Call Christmas.
• 2014-2015: Seen on Horrid Henry: Completely Horrid Complete Collection - Series 3, and on at least one CBeebies DVD, although it is unknown which one it is.

2nd Logo (2014-March 16, 2020)

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Visuals: On a white background, several metallic blue/purple/cyan/white columns rise up with a wavy look to them at 2 angles: once at a right-leaning angle, and once at an horizontal angle. "Abbey" then forms in the same manner at a close up angle, followed by a cut to a far shot while white and grey metallic ribbons fly by and the text tilts. The logo then cuts to "Abbey" turning white and tilting towards the camera, before it turns a deep blue color. "Home Media" then fades in underneath.

Technique: CGI made with MAXON CINEMA 4D and Adobe After Effects.

Audio: A low majestic fanfare, and when the logo is formed, there is a high fanfare at the end, not fitting the logo well.

Availability:

• Seen on then-current Abbey Home Media DVD releases from 2014 until its dissolution in 2020.
• Its last known appearance was on the DVD release of Peter Rabbit: The Tale of the First Bluebell.

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Logo (November 11, 2002-2014)

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Visuals: On a white background, the text "Abbey Home Media" draws in below as a magical comet colored cyan with yellow particles flies across the screen, revealing a light blue oval with two six-point stars, red and yellow circular ends, and "DVD" in it.

Variants:

• Before 2005, the logo was still.
• On content released under license from Prism Leisure Corporation, the logo is squished.

Technique: For the early version, a still graphic. For the later variant, 2D computer animation.

Audio: A magical sparkle sound, or none for the early version.

Audio Variant: At the end of a promo for Tempo TV Classics from 2006, the final note of the promo's music is heard on the later animated version. No magical sparkle sound is heard.

Availability:

• It can be found on almost every Abbey Home Media, Tempo, and Tempo Pre-School DVD release from 2002 until 2014.
• Its first known appearances were on Silent Night: The Story of the First Christmas and Action Man: Explosive Situation, respectively.
• It is also seen on the DVD releases of CITV-aired shows such as Horrid Henry, Sooty and the YTV-aired Almost Naked Animals.

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Screen (1986-1997; 2001)

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Visuals: On a powder blue background, the following white text scrolls upwards:

Warning: The copyright proprietor
has licensed this film (including its
soundtrack) comprised in this video
cassette for home use only.
All other rights are reserved.
The definition of home use excludes
the use of this video cassette at
locations, such as clubs, coaches,
hospitals, hotels, oil rigs, prisons
and schools. Any unauthorised
copying, editing, exhibition, renting,
exchanging, hiring, lending, public
performance, diffusion and/or
boadcast of this video cassette
or any part thereof is strictly
prohibited and any such action
estabilishes liability for a civil
action and may give rise to
criminal prosecution.

Variants:

• On later releases, the background is light blue and the text is also clearer.
• For Just Entertainment releases around 2001, the warning is on a black background and the text is also arranged differently.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: None.

Availability:

• First seen on VHS releases released under the Tempo Video and Video Gems imprints in the UK distributed through WM Collins Video, one example being a post-cert release of Captain Pugwash.
• When Abbey Home Entertainment was founded and acquired the Tempo Video name in 1990, they began to use the warning for all of their distributed releases under their Tempo Video, Tempo Kids Club and Tempo Pre-School imprints, and continued to do so, despite PolyGram purchasing a majority stake of the company in 1996.
• This warning was eventually retired in 1997 in favour of the PolyGram Video's warning screen, although it also makes appearances on select Just Entertainment releases which were released around 2001.

Final Note

The Universal Pictures Home Entertainment warning screens are used from 1997 onwards, although the 1986 warning screen still appears on some reprints of pre-1997 releases.