Logos[]
Logo 1 (1970-1981)[]
Ontario Educational Communications Authority (1975)-0
The first variant of the logo.
Variant 1[]
Against a black background, a large yellow "eye" composed of concentric circles comes in from the left, which flips around. As it flips, it is revealed that the eye is bent slightly. The circles look somewhat like the letter "O" set in a Times-esque font. They are all arranged diagonally, at opposing right angles. As the eye makes its way to the center of the screen, all the circles (except the innermost one, which fades to white) collapse below it, one by one, forming a white horizontal line. Then, it unfolds into the words
ONTARIO
EDUCATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS
AUTHORITY
which are all written in white. They move downward and then move their way slightly upward. At the same time, the circle fades back to yellow, and a series of concentric circles zoom in from inside it, re-forming the same eye from earlier.
Variant 2[]
We see various lines stretched out across the screen, which retract 1-by-1 to form the eye as seen in the 1st variant, only in various colors. The eye flips upward once as the usual text flies into place.
Variant 3[]
We see the rainbow eye from the 2nd variant, then circles zooms in one-by-one outwards, while the same eye, but with two dark-gray outer circles and three light-gray inner circles, zooming and flipping vertically in to the near-top of the screen, once it's done, the usual text zooms in word-by-word, while outer and inner circles of the eye turn dark-blue and lavender, respectively.
All were produced by Dolphin Productions in New York on a Computer Image Corporation Scanimate machine.
Music/Sounds[]
An ominous, warbling Moog synthesizer piece, which gets even louder when the logo is fully formed.
Scare Factor[]
Low for the first and third variant. The sounds may scare some, but this is a cool logo. Low to medium for the second variant. The parts stretched across the screen might scare you, but this is also cool, unless the sounds still creep you out.
1970
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