TFOU Vidéo

Background

TFOU Vidéo was a sub-label of TF1 Vidéo that released children's products and was named after the TF! block, which was replaced with TFOU in 2007.

1st Logo (1997-2001)

Logo: On a white background, we see the TF1 Vidéo logo near the bottom of the screen. A bump appears on the top of the red part, the top of the blue part, and the top left corner of the blue part. The blue part opens like a door and a orange ball jumps of the blue part. The blue part closes and the ball pushes away "VIDÉO" away. The ball leaps back and whistles for the letters "Vidéo" in a cartoon font with dots. The ball pushes the TF1 logo up and stretches the corners. The ball comes close to up and crashes into the deformed logo, making it distort and change colors. The letters cheer and make a deformed box. The letters jump in the box and change to white. Kids say the name as the letters stretch and retract. The logo changes colors, showing quickly each variant, zooms in a camera-like fashion, and zooms out to reveal each variant of the logo.

Variants: Depending on the type of program, the logo, ball and box have different colors:

Orange/cyan logo, red ball and pink box for cartoons.
Red/yellow logo, pink ball and purple box for TV series.
Purple/green logo, cyan ball and orange box for movies.
Green/pink logo, yellow ball and cyan box for documentaries.
Starting in 1999, after the color-changing logo part, the logo fades out, and then the URL for the TF1 Video website types in.

FX/SFX: The transformation to the TF! Video logo.

Music/Sounds: A bunch of sounds with a saxophone playing a tune sounding like the Dinosaurs theme.

Availability: Seen on releases from the company at the time.

Orange/Cyan - Dog Tracer, Les Petites Sorcières, Papyrus, le film, Poil de Carotte, Lapitch, le petit cordonnier, La Flèche bleue, Mon Voisin Totoro
Red/Yellow - Fifi Brindacier, Les Aventures de Poly, Tweenies
Purple/Green - Un visiteur chez le roi Arthur, Zeus et Roxanne, Prince Valiant
Green/Pink - TBA

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2001-2007)

Logo: On a different purple colored background with "ViDÉO" in a jumbled up font, a ball lifts up the 2 parts of the TF! logo. As the ball as the forms the dot on the "!", the red part slouches down. The ball tries to fix it, but the orange part begins to slouch down. The ball tries to hold it, but again the red part slouches. The ball bumps the parts and holds them but slouch. The ball then tries to hold by bumping into them. The ball then bumps into the parts, fusing them together and the ball forming the dot in the "!". The kids say the name as the logo inflates. The kids say "Vidéo!" as the name bumps up. The background then turns white except the section "ViDÉO" is in and the same URL appears in purple.

Trivia: This is basically a variant of a TF! ident used during this time, but with the ViDÉO box on the bottom.

FX/SFX: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: A bunch of slouching music.

Availability: Appears on titles released under the label.

Such examples include Sabrina: Apprentie Sorcière - En Toute Malice, Sabrina au Royaume des Sorcières, Sonic le Rebelle, Pat & Stan and the 2 volumes of Le Monde Fou de Tex Avery.
The logo was replaced with the TFOU video logo beginning in August 2007.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (2007- )

Logo: On a yellow background, we see the current TFOU logo which is the red ball with two white stripes rolling in. Then, it screams when it grows spiked hair and rolls into a splat, Then he laughs when the ball squash and stretches. Then it turns into a ball full of eyeballs with the pupils rolling in. Then it ball stretches half into a line then pops back. Then, the ball moves right back revealing the spring in the half. Finally, the the a sparkle wipes in the text "VIDÉO".

FX/SFX: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Children sings a TFOU theme in the background with various sounds, then a man sings "TFOU".

Availability: Ultra common. Seen on children's DVDs in France, such as Dora the Explorer series.

Editor's Note: This is a funny logo.