Entertainment Ventures

Background
Entertainment Ventures was an American distribution company that distributed many foreign sexploitation films from the late 1960's and early 1970's.

(January 23, 1969-November 5, 1975)
Logo: On an azure blue background, a black print picture is positioned to the left side of the screen; against a partially filled black background is a Greek woman above an oval with the fancy letters "EVi" inside with the "i" overlapping the "V". Wreaths are on the bottom of the oval and one of the woman's breasts is poking out of the right center of the shape. Shortly after, the picture inverts colors, becoming white, as the following text pops up:  An ENTERTAINMENT VENTURES, INC. --- --- Presentation

Technique: The picture inverting colors and the text appearing.

Music/Sounds: A triumphant horn fanfare. Music/Sounds Variants: On the Something Weird Video release of Trader Hornee, the track has been replaced with Mike Vraney narrating "Hi, I'm Mike Vraney of Something Weird Video and I would like to introduce David Friedman, mighty monarch of the exploitation world!"

Availability: Extremely rare. Many video distributors would often cut this logo out and replace it with their logos or simply have the film start without any opening logo. This was seen on original prints of sexploitation and independent films from this era, which includes Bummer, The Wrestler, Trader Hornee, and more. Something Weird Video's print of the latter film keeps this logo albeit with narrations added. It was also seen on an old VHS release of Starlet!.