VARA (Netherlands)

Logo descriptions by SnowflakesOmega

Background: The Omroepvereniging VARA (originally Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs until 1957, but today it's no longer an acronym) is a Dutch public broadcasting organization that operates with the Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The company mostly broadcasts shows about labour and working, but also participated in broadcasting on other genres including children's shows like The Smurfs and sitcoms. It also operates on some of the Dutch parts of Belgium.

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1st Logo

(1990-1995)

Logo: On a black background, we see various silver lines. A red ball is seen crossing them and drops down few of the holes of these lines. The last cut features the lines seen from above and they're revealed to make the word "VARA". The ball moves to the bottom of the R and the lines move away to reveal the trademark logo. A red exclamation mark is seen being part of the R. The background changes into a multi-color light one before the whole thing cuts away for almost a second.

Variants:

• On invision continuities, the logo is shortened, and when the lines move away the background doesn't change. The trademark logo moves to the top-left corner to start the continuity.
• A production logo has the logo still.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct. The normal animated logo was seen during VARA programming on the NPR channels. The production logo may be still seen somewhere around.

Editor's Note:The abrupt ending of the logo is very odd, they could have shown the ending result for a few seconds before cutting away.

2nd Logo

(1995-2001)

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: The first version used a funky theme with saxophone. The second used a swiping synth pad and a mysterious harp tune.

Availability: Extinct. Was used on their programming on the NPR channels.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo

(1995-????)

Logo: There's various people painting on either a white surface or wall the red exclamation mark. The VARA logo fades in at the top-left.

FX/SFX: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct. Used in tandem with the previous logo.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo

(2001-200?)

Nicknames: "The VARA Box", "The Exclamation Mark Box"

Logo: The concept of the logo is that on a black/red light background, a red-facing box featuring an exclamation mark is seen along with the word "VARA". There's some variants in which the box does an specific action.

Variants:

• The box may walk in and stop at the left of the word.
• The box may dance in one of the variants.
• Another variant shows the box moving fastly all of a sudden and then settling into place.
  

FX/SFX: The box moving.

Music/Sounds: Depends on the variant.

Availability: Extinct. Again, found during VARA programming on NPR channels during the time.

Editor's Note: None.