Charter Entertainment/Summary

Logo description by Reactor37654

Video capture courtesy of DudeThatLogo

Background : Charter Entertainment was a genre and low-budget division of Embassy Home Entertainment It was shut down by Nelson Holdings International, when Nelson Entertainment reissued a number of Embassy/Charter releases.

(1985-1988?)


Nickname : "The Color Bars"

Logo : On a black background, we go through 9 bars which are in various shades of green, blue, and purple. As the bars spin around (like in the first Vidmark logo), a 3-D steel gray "Charter" in Haettenschweiler font, appears from the bottom of the screen and covers the top seven of the bars as they stop moving. A steel gray rounded rectangle with a black border appears and the gray dissolves to reveal "ENTERTAINMENT" in the same color. The rounded rectangle turns deep cerise afterwards. The logo "shines" a little before fading to black.

FX/SFX : The bars spinning and the shining, which are all CGI (and looks rather similar to the CGI in the 4th Embassy Home Entertainment logo).

Music/Sounds : A warm synthesized pad sound, ending with a synth strumming sound when "Entertainment" appears. Interestingly, Hanna-Barbera Poland used its theme (minus the synth strum sound).

Availability : Seen on tapes by this company from the era, such as The Terronauts, The Quest (1986), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Crimewave, Bombs Away, God Told Me To, Came a Hot Friday, I Was a Teenage Zombie,Slaughterhouse, Rolling Vengeance, Fair Game, Toby McTeague, Hot Rod, and The 2nd Best Secret Agent among others. You can recognize them by a huge Charter logo at the top of those tape covers.

Scare Factor : Low. The music might scare some, but this is tame compared to other logos of the era.