Metropolis Art Studio (Kazakhstan)

Logo descriptions by SnowflakesOmega

Background: TBA

1st Logo

(1937-1946)

Nicknames: "The Kazakh Vortex", "Trippy Kazakh Logo"

Logo: On a vortex of scrolling lights and patters, the waving Kazakh text "мегаполис" zooms up and stops. The vortex then fades out and the other text lines, "өнер студиясы", "ұлттық фильм және аудиовизуалды" (resized to fit with the other text), and "авторлық құқық (year)", fade in below. The "мегаполис" text keeps on waving.

FX/SFX: The vortex, the waving text, the fades. Impressive for a 1930's Slavic logo, actually.

Music/Sounds: An electronic ascending sound, followed by the opening theme of the film (or none).

Availability: Was very common on Kazakh films during the time. Shouldn't be hard to find if you're looking for national prints of old Kazakh films.

Scare Factor: Medium. Albeit a short and well-designed logo, the trippy nature will get more than a few. It's raised a bit for the next logo.

2nd Logo

(1946-1965)

Nicknames: "Kazakh Torch Logo", "Another Zooming Torch"

Logo: On a background consisting of a mountainous rural view and lines scrolling up on a dark sky, a lightened-up, hand-drawn torch slowly zooms in (with the flame made with live-action). After the torch stops, the word "мегаполис" would zoom in or wipe from below.

Variants:

If the text zooms in, the speed varies from film to film.

A color variant was introduced in 1960, with the sky red and the torch brown.

FX/SFX: The lines on the sky, the zooming torch, the live-action fire, the text.

Music/Sounds: A dramatic, bombastic fanfare. Some films would have none or the opening theme of the film.

Availability: Same level of common as the previous logo. Will still surface on newer national films of the company's movies.

Scare Factor: Medium to high. The very loud fanfare and dark-looking logo may scare some people. Same goes with the color variant since the red sky may be found as a bit apocalyptic. None to low for the silent and opening theme variants since the lack of the fanfare will calm down viewers. But the scare factor rises again with the next logo...

3rd Logo

(1960-1966)

Nicknames: "Dramatic Metropolis", "Angry Metropolis"

Logo: A quick strobe light happens, then parts of the name "мегаполис", "өнері", and "студиясы" appear one by one on a black background. After "студиясы" appears, the screen then changes to another strobe light with the word "мегаполис" as it zooms back. The strobe light then stops, the background goes gray and "өнері студиясы" appears below the logo near the right side.

Variants: The logo was seen in color during 1965-1966, with the background at the end red.

FX/SFX: All 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A quick drum roll, and an ascending 6-note trumpet fanfare which then turns into a very suspenseful finish.

Availability: More rare to find than the previous logos. This was used with tandem for B&W films of the time thanks to the use of the color version of the previous logo. The color version is the hardest to find of the whole logos since it was very short-lived and actually used for around 5 films. Home video copies of films from the time still remain with this logo.

Scare Factor: High to nightmare, due to the very dramatic mood, fanfare, and strobe lights which scared a number of Kazakh people. It's low for those who are used to this logo.

4th Logo

(1966-)

Nicknames: "The Wiping Kazakh Text"

Logo: On a black background, we see the word "мегаполис" fade in. Then the words "өнері студиясы" wipe in next to the logo.

Variants:

The colors used change from film to film. Most of the time the logo uses a black background and red, blue, green or yellow text, two of them are used for each part of the name. There was some films where the normal color pallette wasn't used: take for example in 1968-1984 films, where the background is cyan and the whole text is yellow. 1970-2005 films also used a red background with cyan or yellow text. 1974-2002 films also used a green background with yellow or gray text. 1994-1997 films also used a gray background with the blue name. Other special colored variants exist.

A B&W variant was also used since 1968 and started to become more common since 1990's films and is still being used today.

The wiping-in may also come with shining effects.

Few films had this logo without any animation.

A very rare variant had this logo without the other text wiping in.

Other films had the whole text wiping in.

FX/SFX: The wiping in, in most of the cases.

Music/Sounds: None, or the opening theme of the film.

Music/Sounds Variant: On 1992-2010 films windchime sounds were heard.

Availability: Current. This will be found on most films made by them.

Scare Factor: None.