Zespół Filmowy Silesia

Credits

Compiled by
Tabit

Video captures courtesy of
Alp Entertainment

Background

Zespół Filmowy Silesia is a Polish film production studio based in Katowice. The company was established on Early 1972, and ended up dissolving in 1983.

1st Logo (May 11, 1973)

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Logo: On a black background, we see a white stream of water moving in a vertical manner. As the screen pans upwards, the steam gets closer and closer, eventually covering the entire screen into a white background. The white background then transforms into a thick horizontal bar, whereas "ZESPÓŁ REALIZATORÓW FILMOWYCH" in a white Arial font appears above letter-by-letter, with the screen zoming away to make the text fully visible. After that, the thick bar expands to give room for "SILESIA" in a bulky font to flip inwards inside of the white bar, as a shiny texture appears in the bottom black bar. "p r z e d s t a w i a" then fades in underneath.

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: The sound of water flowing when the stream is shown, a snapping sound when the background fully transforms into a bar along with the sound of a bell, the sound of a typewriter when "ZESPÓŁ REALIZATORÓW FILMOWYCH" appears where we can also hear metallic sounds at the background, and lastly, a harpsichord ditty when "SILESIA" flips in.

Availability: Only known to make an appearance on Na wylot.

2nd Logo (November 22, 1976-March 4, 1977)

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Logo: In a foggy and dusty environment, we come across 7 silhouettes of industrial towers smoking. After this, various sketches of a factory show up including:

• A camera pointing towards the right direction
• A water tower
• The same camera pointing towards the left direction
• 3 minecarts in a shaft
• The same camera from before
• 3 hammers standing right side up
• The same camera pointing left
• A machine pouring oil on both directions
• The same camera pointing right yet again
• An axe chopping up a piece of metal
• The same camera yet again
• A hydraulic press crushing 2 rocks
• The same camera pointing right once again
• A set of cogs
• The camera pointing left yet again
• A gear inside a filmstrip
• And the camera pointing right for the last time

After that, we cut back to the same industrial towers, as we see them transforming into the word "SILESIA" in an Oswald-like font, where we then cut to a white filmstrip containing the following text:

zespol filmowy

SILESIA
przedstawia

when the transformation is 90% complete.

Variants:

• A widescreen variant exists on Przepraszam, czy tu bija?.
• The filmstrip is colored blue in Trędowata.

Technique: Choppy cel animation.

Music/Sounds: A cartoonish army-like fanfare with a dramatic start and finish, along with metal clanging corresponding to the actions happening in the factory sketches.

Music/Sounds Variant: On Trędowata, it is silent.

Availability: Rare. This logo had a short lifespan, and was known to appear on three films: Przepraszam, czy tu bija?, Trędowata and Ptaki, ptakom.... The rest of their films use an in-credit notice instead.