Europa Filmes

Logo descriptions by Thisisanswer, lenhill

Europa Home Video

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extremely rare.

Editor's Note: TBA

Europa Carat Home Video

1st Logo (late 1980s-mid 1990s)

Logo: The logo starts with a gray square flying from the left side of the screen, while the stylized blue E emerges from the right side. The square goes to the center and the E positions itself on front of it, then the texts EUROPA and HOME VIDEO appear from behind the square. The full Europa Home Video logo goes to the left side of the screen to give way to the Carat Home Video logo, that fades in and positions itself on the right. After the Carat logo finishes forming itself, the Europa logo and Carat logo go to the center of the screen, with the latter getting "video-masked" so only the Carat text is seen. The Carat logo covers the HOME VIDEO text for a few frames, before it appears again below the logo.

FX/SFX: Mostly 2D animation, with exception of the Carat Home Video logo, which is in 3D.

Music/Sounds: Two quick dramatic notes in the beginning, then a happy synthesizer note on the rest of the logo.

Availability: Extremely rare.

Editor's Note: TBA

Europa Filmes

1st Logo (1998-2007)

Logo: On a dark blue and purple background, there is a clear glass square. The square rotates as a beam of light cuts out an stylized lowercase E. As the E is being drawn, we pan to see a filmstrip moving fast. When the E is finished drawing, the shell of the E that was drawn zooms in. "EUROPA" in silver zooms out and shines as the E turns blue. A grey square fades in when the filmstrip ends off. "FILMES" sprouts up as a shadow appears behind the E.

Variant: Starting in 2003, with the Brazilian dub of Spirited Away, after the logo was formed, the E became tridimensional.

FX/SFX: The beam, filmstrip, and text. Pretty dated animation.

Music/Sounds: An 8 note xylophone theme with rising synths at the end. It is actually a cue music from the Thomas J. Valentino music library, called "ID and logo #98" composed by Dom Massaro.

Availability: Common. In Brazil, although it was seen on many movies, original or distributed, it is well remembered for appearing in front of the Brazilian dub of Spirited Away (2003), both in the theatrical release and the subsequent VHS and DVD releases.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2007-2011)

Europa Filmes (Brazil) - CLG Wiki Nickname: "The Lighting"

Logo: On a stormy sky with blue mist, several silver squares fly by the screen. We then pan to see the squares are forming the E from before. The E then turns blue and a outline of a square is drawn and filled in as the E is completed and turns grey and refined. "EUROPA" and "FILMES" zoom out as the logo faces forward. A lightning strike happens in the background and the E turns blue.

FX/SFX: The lightning and squares.

Music/Sounds: Lightning strikes are heard throughout the logo, with an majestic theme during the middle portion of the logo.

Availability: Uncommon, as it was used for only 4 years, and then the company went bankrupt. It wouldn't be bankrupt for long, though.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (2013-)

Nickname: "The Lights"

Logo: In a dark environment, there is 2 robotic arms making dots that are glowing. The robotic arms make many dots and form the E from before. The E zooms out and rotates as the E turns blue and solid. "EUROPA" and "FILMES" zoom out above and below the E. The E shines.

FX/SFX: The robotic arms forming the logo. Nice CGI all around.

Music/Sounds: Many tinks for the dots and a proud fanfare with a ding.

Availability: Current. Seen in front of original movies, as well as foreign and/or American movies that are distributed by the company.

Editor's Note: None.