Avco Embassy Television

Background

Avco Embassy Television was founded in 1968 by Avco Embassy Pictures Corporation as its TV syndication division. It was folded into Embassy Telecommunications in 1982 after the studio was sold to Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio.

Logo (1969-1982)

Visuals: After a rectangular iris-in, three copies of a stylized "AE" (consisting of a right triangle, a rectangle, and three striped horizontal vertical lines, or the Avco empennage logo with 3 striped rectangles on the side forming an "E") float in a circular pattern. The logos are red, green, and blue, and they eventually merge to form a white version of the logo. This one changes colors one shape at a time; the triangle turns blue, and each of the other shapes turn green. Below, three copies of the message "AN AVCO EMBASSY TELEVISION PRESENTATION" (red, green and blue) come in from the left, right, and bottom and merge under the logo to form a white version of the words.

Technique: Motion-controlled animation.

Audio: None.

Availability:

Still intact on public domain releases of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Hercules, John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning/Day of Drums, and the 2012 DVD release of Hatchet for the Honeymoon.
It also appears on the Magnetic Video releases of The Graduate, They Call Me Trinity, A Nice Girl Like Me, and Woman Times Seven, and Charter Entertainment releases of Journey Through Rosebud.
It is also preserved on the Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Blu-ray.
It also appears at the start of the 1986 UK VHS release of The Wacky World of Mother Goose from Channel 5 Video.

Avco Embassy Television

Embassy Communications

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