Tagalog Pictures, Inc. (Philippines)

(1990-1992)



Nicknames: "Hatted Tagalog", "Didn't They Came Up With a Better Name?", "Olé, Dear Earth", "The Shining Tagalog", "If The Earth Was God's Sombrero" (hence the Trivia section), "Universal Pictures and Jalisco Films' Tagalog Cousin"

Logo: On a bluish stroke background with black borders (possibly), we see an shining planet (Earth) with some lights spinning. The earth then morphs while a modeled ranchero hat with a triangle top tilts upon it. The text "TAGALOG" on red with blue lines, pops over the bluish background and zooms out of the logo. Then, the text "PICTURES, INC." on white, sparkle from left to right blurry until we sear clearly the text. We then fade to black.

Trivia: The modeled ranchero hat with a triangle top was called "sombrero" (Spanish for "hat", literally "shadower"). Sombrero in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat popularly worn in Mexico, used to shield from the sun.

FX/SFX: The earth spinning and tilting to the hat, the text appearing, and the white sparkles leading to the text to appear.

Cheesy Factor: Very choppy and dated animation, looking from what it was made of the 80's, and a simple name is just the cherry on the top.

Music/Sounds: A series of futuristic radar sounds, followed by a synth explosion (sounds like someone recorded an effect on MIDI) And then synth "frog sounds" (actually it's a SPREONG!) and then some ascending bells, all in conjoint of an synth piano dreamy ditty.

Music/Sounds Variant: On Boy Anghel Utak Pulboron it uses a dreamy fanfare along with choir was heard.

Availability: Uncommon. Only seen at Si Prinsipe Abante at ang Lihim ng Ibong Adarna.

Scare Factor: Medium, if you aren't satisfied with the choppy and very dated animation, the effects nor the music, but you must laugh at the logo itself and it's details!