Videoespaña
From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum
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Videoespaña was a Spanish home video distributor established in 1979 with offices in Paseo de la Castellana 170, the result of an initiative of Rafael Bravo Morata, Miguel Sanchiz, Antonio Esteban García and Juan Font (who would soon be in charge of running the first video store of the nation: the Video Club de España, opened in 1980 in Madrid's Fortuny 47).
The first of a national network of this publisher that would have already in 1981 about twenty stores throughout the national territory. Videoespaña was also the first company to open a duplication chain, also in 1979, with 10 Betamax "slaves", 10 VHS and 10 VCR. By the mid-1980s, the duplication chain had expanded its production to 75 Betamax, 75 VHS and 40 VR2000. All of them using copies obtained with a Bosch digital Telecine that emitted an Ampex 1' signal.
Videoespaña served as an example for many other companies that would be born in those same years in the Spanish videographic market. And to its credit, it was a publisher that always defended the legality of the product against the piracy that, by the mid-eighties of the last century, was already important.
Few companies at that time could boast that their voluminous lists of films (several thousand) had their distribution license in order (i.e., stamped by the Ministry of Culture). Until their demise in the early 1990s, all their products were legal. Even their first titles were acquired from their owners. Among them were all genres (with an abundance of erotic Spanish films and children's products).[1]
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Visuals: There are 3 different versions of this logo:
- With "VIDEOESPAÑA" in purple already formed, a stylized, multi-colored "V" zooms down and up, repeating this sequence until the bottom text blinks to turquoise, then green, then yellow, and finally to red. At this point, the "V" is just zooming slowly towards the camera.
- On a turquoise background, a circle wipe transition is seen where the same "V" and text from the previous variant is shown, except the bottom text is just blinking and changing colors.
- With the stylized "V" already in place, the bottom text from before wipes from the left. While finished with its transition, the text does the same animation from before.
Technique: Simple animation.
Audio: A portion of the Main theme of Shaft for all three variants.
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