Toppic Video

Logo (1983-2000s?)


Visuals: There is a variation of a stand by screen. On the top half of the screen, there are eight vertical bars that are each a different color (L-R: white, yellow, light blue, green, pink,, dark blue, and black). The bottom third is a rectangle with "Video" (with a  tittle and white "e") overlaying it. The stand by screen fades to black, in which the aforementioned "Video" fades in, and a residue trail of "Video" appears behind. The screen then zooms into the tittle of the front text, in which the screen transitions to a white box surrounding another white box covering the right half and the company name (in the same retro font, but not italicized). A star is seen in place of the tittle and there are six stars underneath each letter.

Variants:
 * Some tapes (as well a promo, which the video on the right seems to come from) leave out the "stand by" screen and simply begin with "Video".
 * On the promo variant, the animation is sped up.
 * The logo has a closing variant : the sequence begins with "Video" in chyron/video feedback trail which has a larger amount of the text expanding in a trail and the text somewhat being smaller. Then the "Video" trail all simply transitions into a chyron trail of the Toppic logo.

Technique:
 * Analog computer graphic for the "stand by" screen.
 * Camera-controlled animation with video feedback and iris effects for the logo animation.

Audio: None or the opening theme of the movie.
 * One such tape that uses the opening theme begins with a woman screaming in horror (apparently from the end of a preceding promo), which transitions into an upbeat disco tune.
 * Another tape (said to be an adult German comedy based on fairy tales) uses an edited excerpt from "I Love You, Joe Walker" by Angelina Monti from the Kommissar X film series.

Availability: Can be seen on some German tapes distributed by Polyband and WVG or just Toppic itself. This may also be found on some Australian tapes. The Toppic logo has been long out of print in many German DVDs and Blu-Rays distributed by "Polyband & Toppic Video/WVG" with only the Polyband print logo added in it.