Hammer Video Home (Argentina)



(1986?-????)



Nicknames : "2 Minutes of a Boring Slideshow", "Typical Argentine Movie Slideshow", "2 Minutes of Almost Nothing", " France 3  Prototype" "U Can't Watch This... If Your Bored"

Logo : After a white screen, we see a fading slideshow of various scenes and stars from old movies, with the pictures being: When we see the last picture, a red logo fades in, consisting of "HAMMER" with the "H" and "R" being the biggest letters, and two lines in top and below the M's, with "VIDEO" and "HOME" below these letters. The picture fades to white, leaving the logo.
 * A man on a pedestrian street
 * A picture of the face of a woman
 * A picture of the face of a man looking right
 * Another shot of a face of another woman
 * A crowd, with a woman wearing a flower dress and a man wearing a tuxedo in front
 * A woman in the bath, with foam in her left hand
 * A woman placing her hands on a man
 * Another picture of the face of a woman
 * Nosferatu
 * Another picture of the face of a woman looking left
 * A woman in a black dress
 * Another picture of the face of another man looking right
 * A character's face with a scared look
 * A picture of a man, wearing a hat and holding cards in his hands

FX/SFX : Just the fading pictures and logo.

Cheesy Factor : The slideshow concept is extremely slow and highly probable to cause boredom, but the real cheese here is the unusual length of 2 minutes, which makes the 1st Photo Video logo look actually vivid and effortful compared to this. But it's still a relaxing logo despite it's flaws.

Music/Sounds : A slow new age theme. Which is actually music called "Circulation" by Robert Fripp, it also seems to be slowed down a little.

Availability : Extremely rare, likely to be seen on VHS releases of old movies throughout the country.

Scare Factor : None to low, bordering on medium. There's a few pictures that may scare someone (mostly the Nosferatu and the scared look pictures). It also makes up another logo for fast-forwarding due to its overly long length, but others may feel interested on watching it all the way through.