Minerva Film (Italy)

Background
Minerva Film was an Italian movie producer.

1st logo (1940's)


 Logo:  On a zooming starfield backdrop, a white, 5-pointed star zooms toward us and dissolves into a bust of a woman wearing a crown. Then, a white sunburst shape fades in behind the bust, and the words "MINERVA FILM", in a white, art-decó-esque font, appear zooming in, letter-by-letter, above the bust. After a few seconds, the smaller word "PRESENTA", also in white wipes in below the bust's head. Lastly, after a few seconds, we fade out.

 FX/SFX:  The starfield zooming in, the star appearing and dissolving, the bust appearing, the sunburst shape fading in, the text appearing.

 Variants: 
 * A darker variant exists.
 * In 1947, the logo moved down.
 * In some films, the logo is tinted blue.

 Music/Sounds:  A snare drum roll followed by a trumpet fanfare.

 Availability:  Appeared in Avamto a Lui and Roma città aperta.

 Editor's Note:  None.

2nd logo (1950's-1955, 1957)
 Logo:  In black and white we see a bust wearing a Roman military helmet with 3 sphinx figures on it against a cloudy sky background. The word " MINERVA "is written below in a bold black font.

 FX/SFX:  TBA.

 Music/Sounds:  TBA.

 Availability:  Appeared in several Italian films.

 Editor's Note:  The statue may creepy-looking for some people.