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Line 14: * Green screen, 967 Hz tone (60 seconds) * Green screen, 1033 Hz tone (60 seconds) * Green screen, silent (60 seconds) * Red screen, 367 Hz tone (60 seconds) * White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 31 ⟶ 32: * White screen, 1000 Hz tone (90 seconds) * White screen, 1000 Hz tone (100 seconds) * ~~[[Central Video]] (~~White screen, 1000 Hz tone (140 seconds)▼ * White screen, 1000 Hz tone (150 seconds) * White screen, 1000 Hz tone (300 seconds) Line 44 ⟶ 46: * White screen, 1133 Hz tone (60 seconds) * White screen, 1167 Hz tone (60 seconds) * White screen, silent (60 seconds) * 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~~/or~~ a closing black screen with athe "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) == Notes == * If the white screen test pattern does not appear on a tape at all, preceding the moaning sound, or onit ~~tapes~~does ~~where~~appear ~~the white screen test pattern~~but is ~~preceded~~followed by static before the moaning sound, the moaning sound will only be audible in the linear track and not the hi-fi track, even if the tape was encoded with a hi-fi track. The moaning sound is audible in ~~hi-fi~~both tracks if the white screen test pattern appears preceding it on tapes encoded with the latter track. ==Pre-1984 test patterns== Line 89 ⟶ 92: * ''[[Animal House]]'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1980) - Black screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Annie'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1982) * ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (mono, double tape) (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (stereo, single tape) (Paramount Home Video, 1981) * ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (stereo, single tape) (Paramount Home Video, 1983) - White screen, 933 Hz tone (30 seconds) Line 138 ⟶ 141: * ''Can't Stop the Music'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1981) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Carry On Nurse'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''[[Casey's Shadow]]'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[The Cat and the Canary]]'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[Cat Ballou]]'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1981) Line 147 ⟶ 151: * ''The China Syndrome'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1980) * ''Chinatown'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) - White screen, 1167 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''~~Airplane~~Chinatown'' (Paramount Home Video, ~~1985~~1981) - White screen, ~~933~~1000 Hz tone (~~medium clicking, 15~~140 seconds)▼ * ''A Christmas Carol'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) - Blue screen, 1033 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Citizens Band'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) Line 160 ⟶ 165: * ''The Conversation'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''The Country Girl'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) * ''The Creeping Flesh'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Crystal Gayle in Concert'' (Prism Entertainment, 1984) * ''Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier'' (Fotomat Video, 1980) Line 181 ⟶ 187: * ''Dragonslayer'' (Paramount Home Video, 1982) * ''Drum Beat'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''The Duellists'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) - Black screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''The Dresser'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1984) - White screen, 967 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Earthquake'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 216 ⟶ 222: * ''The Freedom Force'' (Prism Entertainment, 1984) * ''Fun with Dick and Jane'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1979) * ''The Funhouse'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1982) - White screen, silent (60 seconds) * ''Funny Girl'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) - White screen, 967 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Galaxina'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) Line 227 ⟶ 233: * ''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 237 ⟶ 242: * ''Going Ape!'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) * ''Golden Boy'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) * ''Goodbye Columbus'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''Goodbye Emmanuelle'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) * ''Goodbye Norma Jean'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) Line 264 ⟶ 270: * ''Hot Lead and Cold Feet'' (Fotomat Video, 1980) * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (Allied Artists Video, 1980) * ''How to Watch Pro Football'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (fast clicking, 60 seconds) * ''Hud'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''Hud'' (Paramount Home Video, 1982) Line 319 ⟶ 326: * ''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 359 ⟶ 366: * ''Obsession'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) * ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''The Oklahoman'' (Allied Artists Video, 1979)<!-- Result pending --> * ''Oliver's Story'' (Fotomat Video, 1979)<!-- Result pending --> * ''On Vacation'' (Fotomat Video, 1980) * ''Once Upon a Brothers Grimm'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''The One and Only'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''One-Eyed Jacks'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) * ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 373 ⟶ 381: * ''Outrageous'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) * ''The Owl and the Pussycat'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1980) * ''Panic Button'' (Allied Artists Video, 1978)<!-- Result pending --> * ''Paper Moon'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) * ''Paternity'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) Line 391 ⟶ 400: * ''[[The Psychic]]'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) - Green screen, 967 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[Pumping Iron]]'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1980) * ''QB VII Vol. 1'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''QB VII Vol. 2'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''QB VII Vol. 3'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Quadrophenia'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) * ''Queen: Greatest Flix'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1981) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 398 ⟶ 410: * ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) * ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) * ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Return of the Secaucus Seven'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Robin Hood of Monterey'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''Rockshow'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 431 ⟶ 445: * ''Shane'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''Shane'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) * ''Shogun'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 1133 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Shogun'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) * ''The Shootist'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) * ''The Shootist'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) - Black screen, 500 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Silent Rage'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 400 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''A Simple Story'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Six Weeks'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) Line 441 ⟶ 455: * ''Smokey and the Bandit'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1980) - Black screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) * ''Somewhere in Time'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (~~medium~~slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''Sophia Loren: Her Own Story'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1981) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Spaced Out'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1982) Line 497 ⟶ 511: * ''To Catch a Thief'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (MCA Videocassette, Inc., 1981) - White screen, 867 Hz tone (slow clicking, 60 seconds) * ''Tommy'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, silent (60 seconds) * ''The Trial of the Catonsville Nine'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) * ''The Trouble with Angels'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983) Line 504 ⟶ 518: * ''True Grit'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) - White screen, 1133 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''The Tubes Video'' (Thorn EMI Video, 1981) * ''UFO's Are Real'' (Fotomat Video, 1979) - Green screen, silent (60 seconds) * ''Uncommon Valor'' (Paramount Home Video, 1984) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''[[Union City]]'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Up in Smoke'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) - White screen, 1000 Hz tone (60 seconds) * ''Up in Smoke'' (Paramount Home Video, 1983) * ''Urban Cowboy'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - White screen, 1133 Hz tone (30 seconds) Line 540 ⟶ 554: Even after the white screen with the 1000 Hz tone became the standard in Q4 1984, a few tapes still used different tones and/or colors. * ''Airplane!'' (Paramount Home Video, 1985) - White screen, 933 Hz (medium clicking, 15 seconds) * ''The Delicate Delinquent'' (Paramount Home Video, 1990) - White screen, 1033 Hz (15 seconds) ▲* ''Airplane'' (Paramount Home Video, 1985) - White screen, 933 Hz (medium clicking, 15 seconds) * ''Nick and Noel'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1995) - White screen, 1133 Hz (30 seconds) * ''On the Waterfront'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video~~, 1984~~, 1986 ~~release~~) - Black screen, 1000 Hz (30 seconds) * ''Toy Story'' (Walt Disney Home Video, 1996, Mexican release) - White screen, 1033 Hz (60 seconds) * ''True Lies'' (FoxVideo, 1995) - White screen, 933 Hz (medium clicking, 15 seconds) Line 551 ⟶ 565: This covers any program lasting more than 60 minutes that ends in such a manner. '''NOTICE: EP/SLP mode tapes, for which this was standard until ~~1992~~1997, are not included in this list.''' * ''Drugstore Cowboy'' (~~Live~~LIVE Home Video, 1991) * ''Madonna: Truth or Dare'' (~~Live~~LIVE Home Video, 1991) * ''The Palermo Connection'' (~~Live~~LIVE Home Video, 1991) ==Pre-1995 Rank tapes without test patterns== Line 572 ⟶ 586: * ''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 581 ⟶ 594: * ''The Harder They Fall'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1979) * ''Heaven Can Wait'' (Paramount Home Video, 1980) * ''Hell to Eternity'' (Allied Artists Video, 1978) * ''In Cold Blood'' (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982) * ''The King and I'' (FoxVideo, 1991) Line 598 ⟶ 612: * ''Popeye'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981, post-1984 printings) * ''Quantrill's Raiders'' (Allied Artists Video, 1978) * ''Reservoir Dogs'' (LIVE Home Video, 1994) * ''Runaway'' (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1985) * ''Saturday Night Fever'' (Paramount Home Video, 1979) Line 614 ⟶ 629: * ''The Woman in Green'' (Allied Artists Video, 1980) ==Post-1995 ~~Deluxe US~~ SP mode tapes with test patterns== * ''Blue's Clues: Arts and Crafts'' (Paramount Home Video, 1998) * ''Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday'' (Paramount Home Video, 1998 and 1999) * ''Blue's Clues: Blue's Discoveries'' (Paramount Home Video, 1999) * ''Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Pajama Party'' (Paramount Home Video, 1999) * ''Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night'' (Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998) * ''~~Forrest~~Jingle ~~Gump~~Bells'' (~~Paramount~~Family Home ~~Video~~Entertainment, ~~2003~~1999) ==EP/SLP tapes without the white screen test pattern== These tapes instead closed with the long black screen, which plays until just before the quarter-minute black screen with the moaning sound. * ''The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1989) * ''Little Sister Rabbit'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1993) * ''Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever!'' (Random House Home Video, 1989) * ''Richard Scarry's Best Counting Video Ever!'' (Random House Home Video, 1989) * ''The Velveteen Rabbit'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1991) * ''The Velveteen Rabbit'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1997) * ''A Very Merry Cricket'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1989) * ''We Wish You a Turtle Christmas'' (Family Home Entertainment, 1994) ==Other duplicators that used these test patterns== ▲* [[Central Video]] (White screen, 1000 Hz tone) * [[Scenewise Inc.\|Custom Duplication, Inc.]] (Black screen, 1133 Hz tone) (some RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video tapes duplicated by the company) * [[Diamond Entertainment Corporation]] (White screen, 1000 Hz tone) * [[GTK Duplicating Co.]] (Black screen, 1000 Hz tone) * [[~~Osborn~~Vantiva Supply Chain Solutions\|Technicolor Video/CD/DVD ~~Productions~~Services]] (~~White~~Black screen, ~~1000~~400 Hz tone, 410 Hz tone or 1010 Hz tone) ** [[~~Technicolor~~Central de Video\|Central ~~Services~~Video]] (White screen, 1000 Hz tone~~) (tapes duplicated at plants acquired with Central Video~~) * [[WRS Motion Picture & Video ~~Laboratories~~Laboratory]] (Black screen, 400 Hz tone) ==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]] * [[MediaCopy]] (seen on a Pioneer English-subtitled VHS of ''Sailor Moon S: The Movie'') * [[Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation]] * [[Vantiva Supply Chain Solutions\|Technicolor Canada]] (one known copy of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by Universal Studios Home Video) * [[VCR Active Media]] (one known copy of Elmo's World Family Feature) * [[VTR Video]] (one known copy of Wayne's World, by Paramount Home Video) * TBD (one known copy of Wide-Eyed Learning - The Treasure Chest: Toys & Signs) * TBD (some demo tapes by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) * TBD (one known copy of The Fighting Sullivans, by VCI Entertainment) * TBD (one known copy of Willie Nelson: My Life, by Hallway Entertainment & Distribution) * TBD (one known copy of Starkweather, by Velocity Home Entertainment) * TBD (one known copy of A Man Called Hero, by The Asylum) * TBD (one known copy of Pretty Devils, by Terra Entertainment) * TBD (one known copy of Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, by Media Blasters) * TBD (one known copy of Faithless, by MTI Home Video) ==Honorable mentions== Line 635 ⟶ 680: * ''Airplane!'' (Paramount Home Video, 1981) - The last few seconds of the test pattern abruptly switch back to black while the tone continues. * ''Bloodbrothers'' (WCI Home Video, 1981) - Opens with a five-second 1000 Hz test tone despite having nothing to do with Bell & Howell. * ''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 ~~Sleeping Beauty~~Oklahoman'' (~~Thorn~~Allied ~~EMI/HBO~~Artists Video, ~~1985~~1978) - ~~Copies~~A ~~duplicated~~two-second at1000 ~~VCA/Technicolor~~Hz ~~still~~test ~~retain~~tone ~~the~~can ~~first~~be ~~minute~~heard ofat the ~~original~~very ~~test~~start ~~pattern at~~of the ~~end~~video ~~before~~master, ~~cutting~~during ~~back to a~~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. * Copies of certain SP mode VHS tapes that were pressed in the early 2000s that reuse older pre-1995 masters may retain the first couple of seconds or so of the test pattern at the end before cutting to static (or in some cases, back to a black screen, then to static).