Globo Video

Background

Globo Video is the former video label of Grupo Globo, founded in 1981 after it split off from it's older label, Filmoteca Global. It was shut down in 2007 as they mostly focused on Som Livre Video for home video distribution.

1st Logo (1976-1980)

Logo: On a black background, irregular yellow splashes can be seen, which suddenly shrink and form into a filmstrip that zooms in slightly. The middle frame, depicting a overhead shot of a city, then fades to a live shot of it as the other 2 frames become shaded squares. The clip then fades to astronaut repairing a satellite, followed by a parade of people marching wildly down a street. It then fades to a shot of a assault helicopter rising off the ground, then to a wild car crash. The filmstrip then shifts to the left, revealing an eye, and then followed by the next few frames in this order: a girl eating cotton candy, a shot of pipes at an refinery, an orangutan, a bust of a Egyptian(?) woman, a Roman helmet, and a shot of a desert with a caravan of camels in the distance. The filmstrip, now on a shot of the Great Pyramids of Giza, zoom out to reveal even more frames on 5 filmstrips. The 4 other filmstrips then wipe away one by one, interchanging with each other, until the middle filmstrip remains and rips half of it away, revealing a white bar. The filmstrip bar then fades to what appears to be a bronze plaque (most likely the shell of a videotape), which zooms out and rotates upwards, revealing the 1975-1980 Rede Globo logo, along with 4 bolts on each corner. The plaque-like object then flips over to the other side, revealing "FILMOTECA GLOBAL" in a modified ITC Avant Garde Bold font (also called Rede Globo Bold), with the 1st word outlined and the 2nd filled with white, as well as a smaller logo below it and a card with "POSTAL" pinned to it. The object then fades to the Rede Globo logo, and it zooms out. "FILMOTECA GLOBAL" eventually fades in above it, followed by "MAIS UM SERVIÇO CULTURAL DA" in a round font also used by Rede Globo during the time, and then the "REDE GLOBO" wordmark appears in a larger size. The logo then fades out barring the Rede Globo wordmark.

FX/SFX: The filmstrip clips, the plaque rotating, the logo forming.

Music/Sounds: A snippet of Ganawa (Blue Moses) by Randy Weston.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1980-1986)

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: Same as before or TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (1981-1984)

Logo: On a black background, many colored bars slide in, forming 5 columns colored blue, light green, yellow, orange, and red respectively. 4 columns rotate to the right or left, but not fully (The yellow column stays put). They turn the other way and fully rotate to their original position. They zoom out a bit as stars line the edges touching the other columns and they start to spin. They then flash when they are just thin lines and then pulse lines of the same color and then start to rotate when they are fully revealed. They then disappear as the letters of "GLOBO" in it's signature typeface appear one by one in the colors of the columns. They then turn white and start to come together as the background gains a blue gradient. "VIDEO" in the same font but in outline form slides in and the rests as the "V" changes position.

FX/SFX: The animation of the color bars is pretty good, but the logo forming is choppy.

Music/Sounds: A funky and weird disco tune, with a horn-driven finale.

Availability: Might be seen on tapes from the time, but it's probably very rare.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (1984-1989)

Logo: We see a cube made of green wire frame rotating wildly. The cube rotates finally so that we can see the first-person perspective inside, of which reveals the lines being many different colors. The colors move up and down the grid thus causing the lines to change colors as well. We then see multiple squares zoom in on each plane of the inner cube. They state different words on them, of which are hard to view. The last square zooms in to fit. It has a word on one of the squares that pass by (each represent a genre on the video, like "SHOW" or "FILME"). This square zooms out. and that abruptly transitions to Scanimated letters, of which occupy the entire screen and are rotated 45 degrees on the Z axis. The words then rotate to a normal angle, revealing the words "GLOBO VIDEO". "UMA SELEÇÃO" sometimes is stationed at the top as well.

FX/SFX: Early wireframe computer graphics combined with 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A whoosh at the beginning, then a powerful and dramatic fanfare with laser beams, with an uprising synth when the almost final screen flies towards us.

Availability: See the last logo.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1989-Early 90s)

Logo: On a rainbow background, 3 spheres (in red, green, and blue respectively) pass by the screen quickly. When we reach the blue sphere, it protrudes light and a chunk shaped like the the Rede Globo logo comes off of it. Inside the shiny interior is the same rainbow surface and spheres before the sphere turns around and the background turns black. Silver streaks are then "projected" at the piece like a screen, and emerges the Globo Video logo with "APRESENTA" below it. The logo shines as the screen focuses onto it, eventually taking up the whole screen.

FX/SFX: Early 90s CGI.

Music/Sounds: A calm synth fanfare.

Availability: See before.

Editor's Note: This logo's animation was clearly based off the Rede Globo identity from the time.

6th Logo (2000-2005)

Logo: Over a black/blue gradient background, the metallic text of "GLOBO VIDEO" flips out to the center while red, green and blue streaks slide into the left side. The finished logo is in a left-facing perspective.

FX/SFX: Simple, yet effective CGI.

Music/Sounds: A majestic fanfare with a whoosh at the beginning. Low and high tone versions are known to exist.

Availability: Seen on newer video releases and DVDs before the company's extinction.

Editor's Note: None.