Logos[]
1st logo (1984-1988)[]
On a background consisting of an American flag, a white rectangle flips forward into view. Inside of the rectangle is a red segmented upside down trapezoid with a star in the middle and the blue script text "United American Video" also in the middle. The logo zooms back towards the top of the screen as it is replaced by a grey background with a red, white and blue line. Beneath the line is the white text, "For better picture quality, adjust tracking control on VCR."
2nd logo (1989-1991)[]
On a mostly blue gradient starry background with black in the top right corner, we see an American flag come out of nowhere and zoom out at the top of the screen. We then see a brief shine where the American flag zoomed out, and the large letters "UAV," which are blue with red stripes and are meant to resemble the American flag form after the shine. After this, we see a white star zoom out and rest on the "A." The text "United American Video Corp." appears below the letters.
Variant[]
On some tapes, the text is not shown at all.
3rd logo (1991-1998)[]
Against a black background, a giant, two-toned blue letter A comes lazily sweeping from the back, joined by (turning around, in small white font) the letters making up the word "CORPORATION", and from the sides by the letters "U" and "V". A red bar indented with the word "CORPORATION" comes up from the opposite direction, spinning slowly like an axle, until it stops to interlock with those letters. The entire logo then immediately shifts to face toward the upper left and pauses for about 1.5 seconds, then the entire animation plays in reverse (like a palindrome, meaning one half of the logo is playing forward, and the other half is played backward).
Variant[]
Some tapes that show the company's tracking control screen has the logo fade in and fade out at the point where the letter A and the word "CORPORATION" appear. This variant was first shown in 1993 and last shown in 1995.
4th logo (1996-1998)[]
A supernova (a large explosion from space) happens on a black background. The UAV logo in the previous logo, this time with "ENTERTAINMENT" in gold lettering on the red bar, flies into view. Once the logo is into place, light beams come out of it, and pans ever so slightly towards us. The supernova (as well as the light beams) then disappears, leaving the UAV logo on a black background.
Music/Sounds[]
1st logo[]
None.
2nd logo[]
A tremendous "whoosh" sound that slowly increases in volume.
3rd logo[]
Same as before.
4th logo[]
An explosion, then a truncated whoosh from the previous logo (which is much softer), and a synth note.
Scare Factor[]
1st logo[]
None to low, the silence and the effects could scare a few.
2nd logo[]
Low to high. The sound might surprise you. However, the next logo is a different story…
3rd logo[]
Medium to nightmare. The very loud, lengthy whoosh, the overall cheesiness, combined with the darkness that the second logo doesn’t have can get to more than enough people.
4th logo[]
Low to medium. The explosion might scare you, but it’s a cool logo.