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Logo description by kidinbed
Logo video courtesy of DarkyderSammler

1st (possibly only) Logo
(1980's-?)
Inter-Pathe Video (Germany) (1980's?)
Nicknames: "That's A Rooster?", "The Shaking - REDUX", "The Personification of All That Is Cheesy"

Logo: We see a red silhouette of a rooster (though it doesn't look like it) on a white background with red spikes. Then, just like logo 2 of fellow German company Constantin Film, the entire logo "shakes"! After the sudden and cheesy shaking, on a blurrier version of this silhouette, the words
INTER-PATHÉ
in a font that looks like Storybook, wipe to the right. Then, the word
Video
in the same font, zooms in. Suddenly, the word Video is replaced with a blue square. Then, three yellow German words wipe down into the blue square (they say "Spiel", games; "Sport", sports; and "Spannung", suspense or thriller). The word "Western" in white and in Helvetica, suddenly replace the 3 German words. Then the word "Krimi" (crime) in light blue replaces "Western". "Krimi" is replaced by a green "Underhaltung" (entertainment), which is replaced by a pink "Klassiker" (classic), which is then replaced by a yellow "Abenteuer-Monster" (monster adventure), which is replaced by a blue "Science-Fiction"; this is then replaced with a white chunk of text that says "Weltraumfahrt Original*Nasa*Film" (space travel and films by NASA). Then, more film genres are listed: "Musik" (music) in pink; "Sport" (sports) in green; "Dokumentar-Zeitgeschichte" (documentary and contemporary history) in blue; "Kintop" (films in Germany's former yearbook of cinema) in yellow; "Zeichentrick" (cartoon) in pink; and "Märchen" (fairy tales) in yellow. Finally, the blue box is gone, and the word
PRÄSENTIERT
wipes in. Then, the "shaking" repeats!

FX/SFX: Everything. But...

Cheesy Factor: This logo is so cheesy, it makes other German logos look like Polygram's Icarus by comparison! To start off, the rooster doesn't even look like a rooster (hence the nickname "That's A Rooster?"). It looks more like a donkey. The "shaking" is done very slowly, and all of the effects are cheesy. Also, the fact that the logo designers made the silhouette blurrier when the Inter-Pathé text wiped in is a bad decision on their part, the text looks blurry, and the blue box is poorly introduced and placed. This is probably one of the cheesiest 80's logos ever made, along with Simitar's "S of Doom" and Kultur's "Unkultured".

Music/Sounds: A rooster's cry, followed by a funky 70's-style theme, then the rooster's cry again.

Availability: I guess this can only be seen on old German tapes.

Scare Factor: Medium to high, thanks to the odd silhouette, sudden rooster noises (especially at the end), "shaking", and choppy effects, but the music might be a favorite. Also, the outright cheesiness of this logo makes it somewhat less scary. Nightmare for a few users, most notably WillWill45 and myself (Kidinbed).



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