Europa Filmes

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 lowercase 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 tune (which comes from the Carat Home Video logo) that repeats twice.

Availability: Extremely rare.

2nd Logo (mid 1990s-1998)

Logo: On a black-blue space background, a metallic square with a yellow trail in the form of a stylized E emerges from the bottom, while another E in the same style emerges from the top, in a blue/metallic texture. The blue E falls on the square while it rotates. The yellow trail dissipates as the Carat logo shows up on screen from the right side, each letter moving in different positions. A rectangle in the same texture of the square moves below it, settling behind the Carat logo. The EUROPA text surges up from the middle of the screen, accompanied by a lens flare, then comes the HOME VIDEO text, emerging from below, without a lens flare. The logo finishes with the space layout fading out, giving space for a black-blue gradient background.

FX/SFX: Overall 3D technology, decent for its time. 2D elements include the background and the lens flare in the end.

Music/Sounds: There are two variants of the logo, both with different fanfares:

A synthesizer-like fanfare;
A fanfare composed of a harp-like sound that ends in bombastic trumpet notes played in a synthesizer.

Availability: Extremely rare. Available on some Videoteca Caras Quality tapes launched in the late 90s by magazine Caras.

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's actually a stock music from the Valentino Music Library album Classic IDs And Logos Vol. 2 called "ID and logo #98", composed by Dom Massaro.

Availability: Common. In Brazil, despite being seen on many movies, original or distributed, it's 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)

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.