Empresa Trasandina de Videos S.A. (Chile)

1st Logo

(1990-1997)

Nicknames: "The Other Star Wars Logo", "The Chilean Response to Akbar Arts"

Logo: On a background of scrolling ETV logos placed in front of rectangles, and silver lines in between the vertical sides of the logos, which are seeen scrolling from both directions, the blue ETV logo moves in to the center, facing up, and then rotates to normal position, causing it to move up. The text keeps on moving up, then moves to a central position, while spinning vertically. The text then stops, and later "empresa transandina de video" fades in below the logo.

FX/SFX: The scrolling background, the movement of the blue logo.

Cheesy Factor: The animation, while nicely done, seems to lag, and why did they have to use a well-known fanfare instead of making their own? Same as Akbar Arts.

Music/Sounds: The Star Wars fanfare.

Availability: TBA

Scare Factor: None to minimal. Unless you hate the fanfare and the logo's appearance after a few seconds of a black screen, it's actually a harmless logo.

2nd Logo

(1997-2003?)

Logo: There's a sky background with ripples appearing on various zones. An outlined green oval then comes in zooming out from above. The letters E, T and V then zoom out one-by-one placing inside the oval, followed by the words "EMPRESA", "TRANSANDINA" and "DE VIDEOS S.A.", which are stacked on each other, placing below the oval logo. The background then changes into a radial white gradient background (seems more like a fabric).

FX/SFX/Cheesy Animation: Not perfect animation, but it holds a bit well for a home video logo from the time at Chile. Currently this can be done in BluffTitler easily. And the use for MIDI in the fanfare is also a symbol of cheapness.

Music/Sounds: A MIDI majestic fanfare that is somehow inspired by Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Availability: Uncommon in Chile. It is found on VHS prints of Spanish anime dubs of Dragon Ball and Los Justicieros (Slayers in Spanish), and some distributed tapes of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment such as Digimon: The Movie and Ice Age.

Scare Factor: None to minimal. Few may not like the fanfare, but again, this is another harmless logo.