VICO (Hungary)

Background
Founded in early 1986, VICO is a VHS distributors company produced over 130 VHS tapes. The company closed down in 1994 on foreign markets.

(1990s)
Logo: We start off with a live-action footage of a beach with waves crashing onto the shore. We then see a 3D model of the company's logo spinning, which is the word "VICO" in gold with the letters "V" and "O" having multiple cut stripes inside. As it's spinning, the footage fades away, revealling a bkac background. Multiple rays emit from the front side of the logo, and once the logo faces forward, the rays rapidly dissipate. A gray shadow appears below the logo along with the "®" symbol on the top right corner.

Variants: On early 1987 to 1991 releases, which is a film and cartoon distributors in USA , North America , France , UK , Ireland , England , Netherlands , Soviet Union , Hungary , Switzerland and Scandinavia , a stock footage of wave crashing , then , the normal logo beigns after dissolves the stock footage respectively.

FX/SFX: The logo spinning and the light trail. A combination of live-actiona and outdated animation.

Music/Sounds: The sound of the waves and birds at the beach sequence, then fading out into a low whoosh. Other times, an announcer can be heard talking through the logo, obscuring the sound effects (as heard in some advertisements).

Availability: Scarce. Seen on Hungarian VHS tapes and advertisements from the company, like Gondos Bocsok Csodaországban.

Editor's Note: The animation along with the sounds might be unnerving.