Video Scope (Argentina)

(1980s)

WARNING: Do not watch the video if you are prone of epilepsy.

Nicknames: "The UGC Thief", "Fax Video Design's Lost Brother", "Fiery Video Scope", "The OTHER Argentine Son of TMC", "French Tunnel Interrupted By Flashing Logo"

Logo: The first part of the 1982 UGC logoplays as usual. However a circle made of shining yellow stars appears zooming out, causing the logo to freeze before the white circle splits, making the star circle almost cover the whole white circle. Then other stars appear around all directions, and they all zoom in to the screen. We then cut into a moving fiery yellow gradient background(a la Fax Video Design), as a linear circle pattern with a star on it is seen. The linear circle then quickly moves down. The gradient background then flashes between yellow and black, as the same linear circle moves up, but this time with the words "VIDEO" and "SCOPE" placed on an outlined box below it. The whole logo then freezes, and "ANTICIPA" appears letter-by-letter on the top-right.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Cheesy Factor: First of all the theft of the UGC logo animation with the shining stars seems odd enough, but it's nothing compared to the rest of the logo; just like the Fax logo, it may be an overuse of chyron which results to be pretty tough for the eyes. The logo also looks chroma-keyed into the fiery background, in which you can tell by the logo moving down and up and leaving trails of it. It would be one of the cheesiest Argentinian HV logos ever, and it's just as cheesy as the Enterprise Producciones logo, if it really means something.

Music/Sounds: A funky 80s theme.

Availability: Extremely rare. Check Argentinian tapes released by them.

Scare Factor: None to medium. The nature of the logo at first seems harmless enough, but after the logo appears, it may trigger epileptics or other people afraid of cheesy animation and/or flashing backgrounds. It may just be an eyesore for some people, and others may be unaffected or laughing at the animation theft of it.