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:
 * There is a dark variant, making the logo dark.
 * In 1947, the logo moved down.
 * On some films, the logo is blue , making the whole thing blue.

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

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

Scare Factor:Depending on the variant:
 * Medium, the logo and music don’t help.
 * Nightmare, dark logo because logo , music and prescence don’t help.
 * Low, it’s a good logo.
 * Medium to high for the blue variant, making the logo scarier.

2nd logo (1950's-1955, 1957)
Logo:In black and white we see a bust wearing a mask like headress with 3 horse like 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.

Scare Factor:Medium the statue is a bit creepy looking.