Changes: ZeroStar Home Entertainment

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Background: ZeroLW Home Entertainment is a home media label of ZeroLW Entertainment Inc, a sub-label of ConnorWorks Entertainment Inc. Launched in 1967 as "ZeroLittleWords Video Corporation".

1st logo (1967-1970)

Nicknames:

Original: "Early 60s ZLW Face" "I'm confused, is that Dot Warner's face!?" "The Face of Boredom" "The 1970s counterpart of the VID-TV Mask" "Zeroto" "Laughing Mask"
Anti Piracy Variant: "The Angry Face" "Piracy Detected"

Logo: TBA

Variants: TBA

FX/SFX: Early 60s CEL Animation

Music/Sounds: A Moog Synth theme

Music/Sounds Variants: TBA

Availability: Rare

Editor's Notes: This one however was one of the very first Home Video logos in the 60s. But compared to the next logo... it may get freakier

2nd logo (1970-1978)

Nicknames:

Opening: "Scanimate Face" "Cursed Warner Sibling Jumpscare!" "Face from Hell" "Rainbow Face" "Early 70s ZLW" "The 1970s counterpart of the VID-TV Mask II" "Zeroto II" "Laughing Mask II"
Closing: "Trailing Words"
Copyright Screen: "The Red Face at the end" "Blood Red Face From Hell"
Anti Piracy Variant: "The Angry Face II" "Piracy Detected" "And you thought the FACT Anti Piracy PIF was worse"
Easter Egg Variant: "My Nightmares have returned" "ZLW Jumpscare at the end"

Logo: TBA

Variants:

At the end of their VidColor releases as well as early VHS tapes, after the warning screen, there's a very chilling easter egg on there. After said logo, copyright and warning screen ends, the black screen shows for a minute, and then the text appears which says "PLEASE REWIND THIS TAPE" for 30 seconds, and then after that, it fades out, we then see the copyright screen again in a blood red color slowly fading in for 5-10 seconds, and then a distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you forgot to rewind....." with a reverb effect, and after that, it fades out, and then it stays there for also a minute, and then after that, it cuts to color bars for one minute and then and then it stays there for also a minute, and then a Doctor Who-like tune plays over , and after that, it stays black for 5-10 seconds, and then it cuts to static for a minute or two, and then, the creepy version of the ZeroLittleWords Video logo plays with haunting music playing and the end remains (a la PPI Entertainment), and after it ends, it stays there for almost 10 seconds until it fades out to a black screen except where the face suddenly pops up with glowing red eyes, immediately performing a jump scare with a loud screech at the viewer before jarringly cutting to a close up of the mask with an angrier/frowned expression with glowing red eyes, accompanied with a distorted loud roar and and after a second, an different explosion appears, we then see the darker red ZeroLittleWords print logo again with a copyright notice intact for 5-10 seconds, and then a another distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you run away....", it stays black for almost 2 seconds and fades out while it gets cut by static for a couple seconds until the tape starts to automatically rewind. It was made as a special Betamax/VHS/Vidcolor closing instead of using the White Screen of Death, Black Screen of Death, and Color Bars, etc.
On rare occasions, If your copy is pirated, you would get an unnerving variant where the Face instead glows red with glowing red eyes, the garadient background now turns in an orange/red color, and after a few seconds, it changes to "Piracy is wrong, you worthless criminal!", like the easter egg variant, it stays there for almost 10 seconds until cuts to a black screen for 1 second until being cut to a close up of the mask with an angrier/frowned expression with glowing red eyes, accompanied with a distorted loud roar and and after a second, an different explosion appears.

FX/SFX: Early 70s Scanimate graphics

Music/Sounds: A rather stereotypical "space" synth tune. In which perfectly syncs in with the logo animation.

Music/Sounds Variants: TBA

Availability: Rare

Editor's Notes: TBA

3rd logo (1978-1989)

Nicknames:

Opening: "Scanimate Face II" "Face in Space "Cursed Warner Sibling Jumpscare! II" " "The Glowing Blue Face" "The 1970s counterpart of the VID-TV Mask III" "Zeroto III" "Laughing Mask II"
Closing: "Dissappearing Face"
Copyright Screen: "The Dark Blue Face at the end" "I thought the previous one was scarier"
Anti Piracy Variant: "The Angry Face III" "You Lousy Criminal" "Uh oh!" "Turning Red(Not the Upcoming Disney/Pixar Film)" "Furious Zeroto"
Easter Egg Variant: "My Nightmares have returned yet again" "Internet Memes in the 70s?"
Later Variant: "The ZeroLittleWords Abstract Z" "Where's the Mask?"

Logo:

Variants: TBA

FX/SFX: Typical 70s Scanimate, all done by Dolphin Productions in New York

Music/Sounds: TBA

Music/Sounds Variants: TBA

Availability: Rare

Editor's Notes: TBA

"UNDER CONSTRUCTION"

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 Nicknames:
-*'''<u>Original</u>''': "Early 60s ZLW Face" "I'm confused, is that Dot's face!?" "The Face of Boredom" "The 1970s counterpart of the VID-TV Mask" "Zeroto"  "Laughing Mask"
+*'''<u>Original</u>''': "Early 60s ZLW Face" "I'm confused, is that Dot Warner's face!?" "The Face of Boredom" "The 1970s counterpart of the VID-TV Mask" "Zeroto"  "Laughing Mask"
 *'''<u>Anti Piracy Variant</u>''': "The Angry Face" "Piracy Detected"
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 Variants:
-* At the end of their VidColor releases as well as early VHS tapes, after the warning screen, there's a very chilling easter egg on there. After said logo  and copyright screen ends, the black screen shows for a minute, and then the text appears which says "PLEASE REWIND THIS TAPE" for 30 seconds, and then after that, it fades out,  we then see the copyright screen again in a blood red color slowly fading in for 5-10 seconds, and then a distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you forgot to rewind....." with a reverb effect, and after that, it fades out, and then it stays there for also a minute, and then after that, it cuts to color bars for one minute and then and then it stays there for also a minute, and then a Doctor Who-like tune plays over , and after that, it stays black for 5-10 seconds, and then it cuts to static for a minute or two, and then, the creepy version of the ZeroLittleWords Video logo plays with haunting music playing and the end remains (a la PPI Entertainment), and after it ends, it stays there for almost 10 seconds until cuts to a black screen where the face suddenly pops up with glowing red eyes, immediately performing a jump scare with a loud screech at the viewer before jarringly cutting to a close up of the mask with an angrier/frowned expression with glowing red eyes, accompanied with a distorted loud roar and and after a second, an different explosion appears, we then see the darker red ZeroLittleWords print logo again with a copyright notice intact for 5-10 seconds, and then a another distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you run away....", it stays black for almost 2 seconds and fades out while it gets cut by static for a couple seconds until the tape starts to automatically rewind. It was made as a special Betamax/VHS closing instead of using the White Screen of Death, Black Screen of Death, and Color Bars, etc.
+* At the end of their VidColor releases as well as early VHS tapes, after the warning screen, there's a very chilling easter egg on there. After said logo, copyright and warning screen ends, the black screen shows for a minute, and then the text appears which says "PLEASE REWIND THIS TAPE" for 30 seconds, and then after that, it fades out,  we then see the copyright screen again in a blood red color slowly fading in for 5-10 seconds, and then a distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you forgot to rewind....." with a reverb effect, and after that, it fades out, and then it stays there for also a minute, and then after that, it cuts to color bars for one minute and then and then it stays there for also a minute, and then a Doctor Who-like tune plays over , and after that, it stays black for 5-10 seconds, and then it cuts to static for a minute or two, and then, the creepy version of the ZeroLittleWords Video logo plays with haunting music playing and the end remains (a la PPI Entertainment), and after it ends, it stays there for almost 10 seconds until it fades out to a black screen except where the face suddenly pops up with glowing red eyes, immediately performing a jump scare with a loud screech at the viewer before jarringly cutting to a close up of the mask with an angrier/frowned expression with glowing red eyes, accompanied with a distorted loud roar and and after a second, an different explosion appears, we then see the darker red ZeroLittleWords print logo again with a copyright notice intact for 5-10 seconds, and then a another distorted voice whispering "This is the part where you run away....", it stays black for almost 2 seconds and fades out while it gets cut by static for a couple seconds until the tape starts to automatically rewind. It was made as a special Betamax/VHS/Vidcolor closing instead of using the White Screen of Death, Black Screen of Death, and Color Bars, etc.
+*On rare occasions, If your copy is pirated, you would get an unnerving variant where the Face instead glows red with glowing red eyes, the garadient background now turns in an orange/red color, and after a few seconds, it changes to "Piracy is wrong, you worthless criminal!", like the easter egg variant, it stays there for almost 10 seconds until cuts to a black screen for 1 second until being cut to a close up of the mask with an angrier/frowned expression with glowing red eyes, accompanied with a distorted loud roar and and after a second, an different explosion appears.
 FX/SFX: Early 70s Scanimate graphics
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 *'''<u>Copyright Screen</u>''': "The Dark Blue Face at the end" "I thought the previous one was scarier"
 *'''<u>Anti Piracy Variant</u>''': "The Angry Face III" "You Lousy Criminal" "Uh oh!" "Turning Red(Not the Upcoming Disney/Pixar Film)" "Furious Zeroto"
+*'''<u>Easter Egg Variant</u>''': "My Nightmares have returned yet again" "Internet Memes in the 70s?"
+*'''<u>Later Variant</u>''': "The ZeroLittleWords Abstract Z" "Where's the Mask?"
 Logo: