Tobis Portuguesa

Background
Tobis Portuguesa is a Portuguese film production and lab processing company. Established in June 3, 1932 as a Portuguese branch of the German studio Tobis Film, Tobis produced many of the major works in Portuguese cinema for three decades.

Logo (November 7, 1933)


Logo We see a square version of the shield of Portugal's coat of arms (a white rectangle with 5 blue escudetcheons arranged as a cross, each containg 5 silver bezants arranged as a quincunx, which is surrounded by a red border containg 7 golden castles). It then fades to a light grey background with a large dark grey square containing the company's name: TOBIS PORTUGUESA in white. The text is seen to have a shadow, along with the square.

FX/SFX Rostrum camera.

Music/Sounds The opening theme.

Availability Only seen on A Canção de Lisboa, Portugal's second sound full-length movie, but the first fully made domestically.

Editor's Note None.

Logo (1980's?)


Logo On a black background, we see the white letters "T", "O", "B", "I", and "S" zoom in and turn into red (notice it's arranged in a similar way to the logo of the original German Tobis). Then the word "PORTUGUESA" in white wipes in below it. Then the word "APRESENTA" appears along with the cymbal crash.

FX/SFX Cel animation and rostrum camera.

Music/Sounds A drumroll, followed by a cymbal crash.

Availability Seen of reissues of Tobis' early movies, such as Sonhar é Fácil and Ala-Arriba!.

Editor's Note The cymbal crash can be very jarring for first-time viewers.