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Line 49: * Yellow screen, 967 Hz tone (60 seconds) * Yellow screen, 1033 Hz tone (60 seconds) * From 1986 to ~~1998~~mid-1997, many tapes had a white screen test pattern (with optional red letterbox bars until 1989) and a closing black screen with the "pull my finger" moaning sound (usually 3-5 seconds; sometimes heard twice). * During the 1990s, some tapes had shuffling color/black-and-white bars (usually 1-2 seconds at the end of the tape) Line 232: * ''Gimme Shelter'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1980) * ''[[The Godfather]]'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) - White screen, 1167 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[The Godfather]]'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979)▼ * ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) Line 326 ⟶ 325: * ''Lost and Found'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Love Story'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''Love Story'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) - Black screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Mahogany'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''Mahogany'' (Paramount Home Video, 1982) Line 583 ⟶ 582: * ''Death Wish'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) * ''The Electric Horseman'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1980) * ''Field of Dreams'' (MCA/Universal Home Video, 1992) * ''The Fisher King'' (Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1992) * ''Foul Play'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) ▲* ''[[The Godfather]]'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) * ''Grease'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) * ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' (Paramount Home Video, 1982) Line 650 ⟶ 648: * [[Scenewise Inc.\|Custom Duplication, Inc.]] (Black screen, 1133 Hz tone) (some RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video tapes duplicated by the company) * [[GTK Duplicating Co.]] (Black screen, 1000 Hz tone) * TBD (Black screen, 400 Hz tone) (one known copy of ''Doctor De Soto and other stories'', by Children's Circle) * [[Vantiva Supply Chain Solutions\|Technicolor Video/CD/DVD Services]] (Black screen, 400 Hz tone, 410 Hz tone or 1010 Hz tone) ** [[Central de Video\|Central Video]] (White screen, 1000 Hz tone) Line 656 ⟶ 655: ==Other duplicators that used a silent white screen== * [[Allied Vaughn]] (seen on a few Manga Entertainment VHS tapes) * [[CMI Media Management Solutions\|Cine Magnetics Video & Digital Laboratories]] (seen on a WLIW VHS of ''New York The Way It Was: The Bronx'') * [[Full Perspective Video Services, Inc.]] (seen on a PBS VHS of ''The Hidden Child'') * [[Hauppauge Video Manufacturing]] Line 679 ⟶ 678: * ''Airplane!'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - The last few seconds of the test pattern abruptly switch back to black while the tone continues. * ''From Here to Eternity'' (Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1992) - After 1995, the final stretch of black screen showed a couple of seconds of the standard test pattern from when this release was first mastered. * ''The Oklahoman'' (Allied Artists Video, 1978) - A two-second 1000 Hz test tone can be heard at the very start of the video master, during the black screen. * ''Rosemary's Baby'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - The last second of the test pattern is silent. * ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (Thorn EMI/HBO Video, 1985) - Copies duplicated at VCA/Technicolor still retain the first minute or so of the original test pattern at the end before cutting back to a black screen.