Clearvue
 | This article contains dead video embeds. This can happen if a video becomes removed from the original site and/or the user who uploaded it was terminated. If an alternative video can be found, please add it and remove the dead embed. Please also ensure that video credits are updated accordingly. |
Background
Clearvue was a Chicago-based educational company formed sometime in 1954 at the latest to produce and distribute educational media. Clearvue was renamed "Clearvue/eav" in 1991, and merged with the SVE & Churchill Media in 2004 to form "Clearvue & SVE" before being folded into Discovery Education in 2007.
Clearvue
Logo (1990?-1991?)
.png){kind=spacer}
Visuals: Over a black background, the logo starts with the word "Clearvue" in the Brandish font zooming in and spinning around. It starts out in rainbow colors but then turns a yellow color as it stops spinning. The slogan "Educational Enrichment For All Grade Levels" fades in below in blue.
Technique: Computer effects.
Audio: None.
Availability: It, along with the warning screen that followed it, was known to have appeared on First Steps to Learning (a.k.a. Fun to Learn Video Series and Laugh & Learn) and is intact on the VHS releases from United American Video Corporation and Slam Gold, but not on the Sterling/SVE re-releases.
Clearvue/eav
1st Logo (1991?-1996?)
.png){kind=spacer}
 | This logo contains an old telephone number. Please do not try to dial it. |
Visuals: On a black background, an orange square, with multiple smaller ones in a concentric style, is seen at the top of the screen. Below it is the text "Presented by" in a sky blue color, and below that is the large white text "CLEARVUE/eav". An address and phone number can be seen in orange at the bottom of the screen.
Technique: None.
Audio: None.
Availability: Known to have appeared at the end of Walt Whitman: Poet of Humanity.
2nd Logo (1996?-2000?)
.png){kind=spacer}
.png){kind=spacer}
| This logo contains an old telephone number. Please do not try to dial it. |
Visuals: On a white background a series of paint samples, colored in the seven main colors of the rainbow, appear one by one in a right-leaning slant from top to bottom. Once the sequence is complete, the text "Clearvue/eav" fades in on the bottom left, and one of two slogans (either "The Most Complete Source For Cirriculum-Oriented A/V Materials" or "Audiovisual enrichment for all grade levels") fades in on the top right. The logo holds for a few seconds before fading out.
Variant: The closing version includes a phone number above the company name.
Technique: Fading effects.
Audio: None, or the video's opening/closing theme.
Availability: This was known to be seen on The Perfect Paragraph.
3rd Logo (2000?-2003?)
.png){kind=spacer}
| This logo contains an old telephone number. Please do not try to dial it. |
Visuals: The same paint samples animation as the previous logo, except the samples are now CGI-animated. The "Clearvue/eav" text zooms out to fill the left side of the screen, along with the new byline "The Most Complete Source For Cirriculum-Oriented Media"
Technique: Fading and zooming effects.
Audio: A synth-keyboard jingle as the paint samples fade into position, followed by a percussion "thud" as the text falls into place.
Availability: It is known to have appeared on Lab Safety: Chem Games and may been seen on other old VHS or DVD releases from the company.
4th Logo (2003-2004)
.png){kind=spacer}
| This logo contains an old telephone number. Please do not try to dial it. |
Visuals: After a white flash is the Clearvue/eav logo text pan across a series of blue-tinted paint sample, then an orange-tinted sample, then we fly through a series of educational video clips reflected through the paint samples. Another flash reveals the full logo against a solid blue background, then the paint samples fly into their proper position. The logo holds for several seconds before fading out.
Closing Variant: The logo repeats, but with Clearvue's phone number and website displayed underneath.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A worldly computer-esque theme with a heavy percussion beat.
Availability: Seen on Clearvue DVDs and VHS tapes from the period, such as Meet the Music Makers: Victor Violin and the Singing Strings.
|
|
Clearvue |
|
