Video Brokers

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum

1st Logo (Early 1980s)


Visuals: On a red background, a black caption "VIDEO BROKERS" in Broadway font, overlaid on a linear stripe.

Technique: Digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: Unknown. [Examples?]


2nd Logo (1983-1984)


Visuals: On a sky blue background, the caption "VIDEO BROKERS" and "PRESENTS", in Broadway font, zooms into view. The caption is filled with stock footage of (in order of appearance): the sea, a hang glider, a barking dog, a basketball match, a glider flying over sea, a cartoon, and the front of a car. As the music end, a copy of the caption, in white text on a black background, zooms in to fill the initial caption white. The caption then zooms out of view, although it reveals a black border in the process.

Technique: Live action and computer animation.

Audio: A serious synth jingle with synth percussion.

Availability:

  • It was seen on a 1984 VHS of Bozo titled "Bully 4 Bozo".
  • It also appears on the 1983 UK pre-cert VHS releases of Laurel and Hardy in Big Bear Bungle and Ghosts from the Deep, respectively, as well.
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