Childsource

Background
Childsource, Inc. was a New York-based producer and distributor of personalized educational VHS tapes that would feature the child the tape was made for in a starring role. Incorporated in 1997, the company would later be dissolved sometime in the 2000s.

(Late 1990s-200?)


Logo: On a white background, we see a child-like illustration of a strip of a blue sky with birds flying and an orange sun, and below it and resting on a green scribble representing grass is the company name "Times New Roman", whose "I" is replaced by a drawing of a stick figure with a yellow head. Below the company name and to the right of the stick figure is the slogan, in dark blue and in a childlike, handwritten font, "Comic Sans MS". After a brief moment, a photograph of the child who the video was made for and the text, in red, "Arial" materialize in a pixel effect over the stick figure's head and below the logo respectively. The red text then disappears in the same effect before more text in the same stylization and providing the phone number to order a VHS from the company appears in the same area. Throughout the entire logo, a small copyright notice can be seen towards the bottom-right of the screen.

Variants: The child head that covers the stick figure's head is personalized, meaning that a different head will appear on every different copy.

Technique: Simple computer animation.

Music/Sounds: A few seconds of silence followed by a single ambient synth note.

Availability: Extinct. Seen only on VHS tapes that were produced by the company, at least two of which have been preserved on YouTube in the form of The Jake Show and The Lewis Show.