Fotomat Transfer Service

Credits

Descriptions by
YingYong

Captures by
YingYong

Video captures courtesy of
Delaware Digital Video Factory

Background

Fotomat, originally known as Photomat, was a retail photo development company that began in Point Loma, CA in 1961. In 1978, Fotomat retailers began offering a service to transfer 8mm tape home recordings to videocassette.

Logo (1978-1980s)

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Visuals: On a black background, the words

FOTOMAT

TRANSFER

SERVICE appear in a golden neon, stylized font, with a gold trail behind it. Beneath the text, there is a golden, pyramidal roof structure with a flat top, composed of three bars (made to look like the roof of Fotomat retail outlets). Two neon blue lines emerge from the bottom of the roof and diverge in opposite directions, looking like:

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Technique: A still, computerized graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: This was only seen on Fotomat videocassette transfers of 8mm footage home recordings.