Sundowner Home Video

Logo (Early-Mid '80s)


Visuals: On a black background, a eclipsed picture of the Earth zooms out slowly. After it stops at a comfortable distance from the screen, it suddenly starts to glow with a white aura (a portion along the bottom edge also disappears as a result) and a series of 4 panels with  drop shadows emerge from the right side of the Earth in a fan-like form, as the background starts to glow with bright flashing stars. 2 more panels swirl in from behind the panel formation and stop in a similar place, with one of the plates colored white instead, and overlap the Earth rather than rest behind it. On the white panel, the Sundowner Home Video logo fades in, which is the text "SUND●WNER" in a Revue font, with the  circle acting as the "O", and 2 arcs above it in  and  respectively. The 2 extra panels fly off screen, with the white panel sliding to the left and the panel sliding upwards, and the Sundowner panel flies in from the Earth, swivels to face the left, and then flies towards the screen to fill it. A chyron 5-pointed star flashes from the circle, and then "Arial" fades in below, along with a  TM symbol.

Technique: 2D computer effects.

Audio: It starts off with a wind-blowing sound, followed by a synthesized harp fanfare that plays when the Earth globe starts glowing. An announcer says "The following feature is brought to you by Sundowner Home Video.".

Availability: Seen on PAL tapes released in Australia and New Zealand, such as Spaceship (also known as The Creature Wasn't Nice).