Ca Dao Productions

Background
Ca Dao Productions was established in 1994, by a owner and singer Chung Tử Lưu. he created a Vietnamese music released such as CD, Cassettes, VHS and Karaoke releases with many talents singers like Trường Vũ, Hồng Trúc, Lâm Gia Minh, Thanh Thu, Đinh Ngọc, etc. He also releasing some other releases like cải lương, documentaries, comedies, audiobook.

1st Logo (2000's)


Nickname "Skyscraper at Night Under Ca Dao Text on River"

Logo: We see a skyscraper and a bridge at night somewhere from San Francisco or Houston and the text says "CA DAO" is under on river. This texts which fly up in 3D effects while "PRODUCTION" with a long oval shaped spin and lands on bottom of "CA DAO" then a broken glass transition which transported into black screen at the end.

FX/SFX: 3D animation on the text and oval shaped which cause to spinning around.

Music/Sounds: The sounds was used from 3D Pinball Space Cadet from Microsoft Windows.

Availability: Only be seen on some Vietnamese documentaries VHS releases.

Legacy: There's a yellow flower background right after the glass broken transitions during a preview at beginning of tape 1 or tape 2 from Vietnamese documentaries VHS. You can see it here: https://archive.org/details/tac-pham-nghe-thuat-ca-dao-vina-video

2nd Logo (2000's)


Logo: In fade in with the sunrise background, we see the text "Ca Dao Productions" fly, rotate and lands into center while arrow is still spinning in 3D and fade out.

FX/SFX: Another 3D animation texts, catchy Mexican music.

Music/Sounds: A really Mexican music which used in different video like ads, edit video in the 2000s.

Availability: Seen on documentaries releases, like "Ca Dao Nghệ Thuật" series

Legacy: This logo is used from Karaoke series and Ca Dao Video 2 during intro.

3rd Logo (2000's - 2009)


Logo: On fade in, we saw a zoom in on 3D effects with a sunset cloud background and a blue fade as a floor designed and fades transition which see Ca Dao texts during different angle and fade back with zoom out until stop. The text "PRODUCTIONS" appears as Arial text on bottom then fades out.

Variant: Sometimes, the animation has a different angle and zooming effects with a shaped pyramid on the logo.

FX/SFX: 3D animation.

Music/Sounds: A space sounds that hears from songs which composed by Huỳnh Nhật Tân then orchestra music heard with keyboard piano hears a "ding" and a boom sound effects.

Availability: Scarce. Can be seen on many Videocassettes and DVD.