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| Oct 14 2008, 5:34 AM EDT | logoboy95 | 28 words added, 1 word deleted |
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Written and Compiled by Matt Williams
Logo captures by V of Doom, Eric S., and others
Editions by Eric S. and V of Doom
Fox Film Corporation/William Fox
Background: The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures. It was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. Fox formed Fox Film Corporation by merging two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company.
(1915-1935)
Logo: Here is the in-credit disclaimer of Fox Films. It would just say:
In other cases, it mentioned the name of William Fox:
FX/Cheesy Factor: None. It's an in-credit disclaimer.
Music/Sounds: None; it's probably silent.
Availability: One of the rarest logos ever. Can be seen on very early films on the Fox Movie Channel.
Scare Factor: None.
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20th Century Pictures, Inc.
Background: Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1932 by Joseph Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Brothers, William Goetz from Fox Films, and Raymond Griffith. Their material was released theatrically under United Artists.
(1932-1935)
Nicknames: "The Searchlights", "Futuristic Structure", "Majestic Tower"
Logo: On a dark sky background, 3 rows of words, "20th","CENTURY", and "PICTURES Inc", apparently carved out of stone or metal, are seen. The words are "stacked" on top of each other, with similarly carved lines separating the rows. The "20th" is the biggest row, with "CENTURY" and "PICTURES, Inc." a bit smaller. A circular stage-like structure juts out from the base of the "stack," with a light on top of the structure that shines in front of the "stack." There are pedestals on both sides of the stack, each with a non-moving searchlight. In the background, several searchlights scan the sky.
Closing Title: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, fades in the words "The End" with fonts variating on different movies with the following disclaimers: "A 20th Century Picture", and below on a smaller font "Released Thru United Artists".
FX: The searchlights in the background.
Music/Sounds: The original fanfare, as composed by Alfred Newman. Some movies had a remix version of the fanfare.
Availability: Extremely rare. Seen during rare chances on either Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics, or Fox Movie Channel, like Blood Money, for example.
Scare Factor: Low to medium.
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20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Background: In 1935, 20th Century Pictures Inc, and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation (the hyphen in between Century and Fox was present until 1985), or simply 20th Century Fox. Currently, it is a division of News Corporation and 20th Century Fox Film Corportion started with 1935.
1st Logo
(1935-1994)
Nicknames: "The Searchlights", "Fox Structure", "Majestic Tower"
Logo: On a dark blue sky background, 3 rows of words, "20th","CENTURY", and "FOX", apparently carved out of stone or metal and in a gold color, are seen. The words are "stacked" on top of each other, with similarly carved lines separating the rows. The "20th" is the biggest row, with "CENTURY" and "FOX" a bit smaller. A circular stage-like structure juts out from the base of the "stack," with a light on top of the structure that shines in front of the "stack." There are pedestals on both sides of the stack, each with a non-moving searchlight. In the background, several searchlights scan the sky.
Variants: The Fox logo has had many renditions over the years. Here are some of them:
Closing Titles:
FX: The searchlights in the background.
Music/Sounds: A familiar horn fanfare that has become one of the most famous pieces of music in the world. On some films, it either has the opening of the movie's theme, or it's silent.
Music/Sound Variants: This logo also had many music variations:
Availability: Very common; still saved on just about every 20th Century Fox release, and recently presented in letterboxed format on a daily basis. Also, for some reason, the 1982 variant has been spotted on international prints of the Almodóvar movie Live Flesh [originally known as Carne Trémula] (1997), being seen in Latin America. The colorized version of the 1935 logo can be found on the colorized version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), for example. The only place is where plastered over on the DVD releases of Laura (1944) and Curly Top, (1935), which it has the 1935 music played over the black and white 1953 variant of the 20th Century Fox logo. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) are also seen with the 1953 variant of this logo (the 1953 variant was restored on the 2006 DVD releases of two said films, however), but was replaced with the current 1994 20th Century Fox logo below on the pre-2006 DVD releases. The Princess Bride (1987) also originally opened with the silent 1982 20th Century Fox logo, but is replaced with the current MGM lion logo on the DVD release. The 1953 logo is replaced with the 1982 logo on many current prints of the 1979 film Alien. The last movie to use this logo was the 1994 film Airheads.
Scare Factor: Low to medium for the earlier variants and low for the later variants. One of the most wonderful and majestic logos.
2nd Logo
(1994- )
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights", "Ultra Majestic Tower"
Logo: We start on a black background. Then two searchlights swoop across the screen, revealing a top aerial view of the 20th Century Fox structure, redone in CGI. The camera pans down and then across the logo, revealing the cloudy purple/orange Los Angeles and Hollywood skyline in the distance, before settling into its more customary position and angle. The byline "A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY" fades in at the bottom of the screen.
Variants:
Trivia: The first movie to use this logo was James Cameron's True Lies (1994).
FX: The panning of the camera across the Fox structure.
Music/Sounds: The fanfare was reorchestrated in 1994, and then again in 1997.
Music/Sound Variant: On the early days of the logo, it used music from the 1980's logo.
Availability: Very common in theaters and post-1994 Fox releases.
Scare Factor: None.
Logo captures by V of Doom, Eric S., and others
Editions by Eric S. and V of Doom
Fox Film Corporation/William Fox
Background: The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures. It was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. Fox formed Fox Film Corporation by merging two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company.
(1915-1935)
Logo: Here is the in-credit disclaimer of Fox Films. It would just say:
FOX FILM
PRESENTS
PRESENTS
In other cases, it mentioned the name of William Fox:
WILLIAM FOX
PRESENTS
PRESENTS
FX/Cheesy Factor: None. It's an in-credit disclaimer.
Music/Sounds: None; it's probably silent.
Availability: One of the rarest logos ever. Can be seen on very early films on the Fox Movie Channel.
Scare Factor: None.
_______________________________________________________________
20th Century Pictures, Inc.
Background: Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1932 by Joseph Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Brothers, William Goetz from Fox Films, and Raymond Griffith. Their material was released theatrically under United Artists.
(1932-1935)
Nicknames: "The Searchlights", "Futuristic Structure", "Majestic Tower"
Logo: On a dark sky background, 3 rows of words, "20th","CENTURY", and "PICTURES Inc", apparently carved out of stone or metal, are seen. The words are "stacked" on top of each other, with similarly carved lines separating the rows. The "20th" is the biggest row, with "CENTURY" and "PICTURES, Inc." a bit smaller. A circular stage-like structure juts out from the base of the "stack," with a light on top of the structure that shines in front of the "stack." There are pedestals on both sides of the stack, each with a non-moving searchlight. In the background, several searchlights scan the sky.
Closing Title: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, fades in the words "The End" with fonts variating on different movies with the following disclaimers: "A 20th Century Picture", and below on a smaller font "Released Thru United Artists".
FX: The searchlights in the background.
Music/Sounds: The original fanfare, as composed by Alfred Newman. Some movies had a remix version of the fanfare.
Availability: Extremely rare. Seen during rare chances on either Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics, or Fox Movie Channel, like Blood Money, for example.
Scare Factor: Low to medium.
_______________________________________________________________
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Background: In 1935, 20th Century Pictures Inc, and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation (the hyphen in between Century and Fox was present until 1985), or simply 20th Century Fox. Currently, it is a division of News Corporation and 20th Century Fox Film Corportion started with 1935.
1st Logo
(1935-1994)
Nicknames: "The Searchlights", "Fox Structure", "Majestic Tower"
Logo: On a dark blue sky background, 3 rows of words, "20th","CENTURY", and "FOX", apparently carved out of stone or metal and in a gold color, are seen. The words are "stacked" on top of each other, with similarly carved lines separating the rows. The "20th" is the biggest row, with "CENTURY" and "FOX" a bit smaller. A circular stage-like structure juts out from the base of the "stack," with a light on top of the structure that shines in front of the "stack." There are pedestals on both sides of the stack, each with a non-moving searchlight. In the background, several searchlights scan the sky.
Variants: The Fox logo has had many renditions over the years. Here are some of them:
- 1935-1953: First official logo originally presented in black and white - which later switches to color. Many searchlights are visible in this logo.
- 1953-1965: The CinemaScope logo. The searchlights are slimmed down and the structure is placed in the center of the screen with a dark blue sky surrounding it. The logo fades to "TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE/PRODUCTION." Two versions exist: One with a regular "0" and one with a slanted "0". The one with the regular "0" also had this text: "A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE IN CINEMASCOPE 55".
- 1965-1982: Like the CinemaScope logo, only without the fade-out and extra sky. Like the CinemaScope version, two versions exist: one with a normal zero and one with a slanted zero.
- 1982-1994: The logo is redone and redrawn. The searchlights in back are now colored, and the logo seems skewed to the left (at least on television).
- On colorized movies, depending on what studio colorized it, the logo would have different colours.
- The logo would either take place on a day or night sky.
- One extremely rare variant had a slightly altered version of the tower in the opening credits with "presents", in script, below it. This variant was used for Fox Movietone News newsreels.
- On The Black Swan, there's a slightly different color variant in which the tower is pink, the left searchlights are pink, the right searchlights are yellow and blue, the "stack" is blue, the middle searchlights are green, and the sky is dark purple.
- On the 1950 film Panic of the Streets, the logo is large-sized; this large version is on the DVD of the film.
- There is an extended version of the 1953-1982 logo without the CinemaScope logo. It only appeared on Mel Brooks films, like High Anxiety and History of the World: Part I.
Closing Titles:
- 1935-1953: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, fades in the words "The End" with fonts variating on the movie with the following disclaimers: "Released through/by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" or "Produced and Released/Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation".
- 1953-1965: Same as above, but the "The End" words are pulled to very above and the 20th Century Fox disclaimer is pushed to very below the screen to give space for the disclaimer "A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE/PRODUCTION".
FX: The searchlights in the background.
Music/Sounds: A familiar horn fanfare that has become one of the most famous pieces of music in the world. On some films, it either has the opening of the movie's theme, or it's silent.
Music/Sound Variants: This logo also had many music variations:
- 1935-1981: The same original fanfare, as composed by Alfred Newman.
- 1953-1980: The original fanfare is extended for CinemaScope: after CinemaScope is dropped, the extended fanfare is used in tandem with the shorter one.
- 1980: New recording,conducted by John Williams and debuting on The Empire Strikes Back.
- 1982-1994: A more "stripped down" fanfare used throughout the 1980s. Again, short and longer versions are used in tandem.
Availability: Very common; still saved on just about every 20th Century Fox release, and recently presented in letterboxed format on a daily basis. Also, for some reason, the 1982 variant has been spotted on international prints of the Almodóvar movie Live Flesh [originally known as Carne Trémula] (1997), being seen in Latin America. The colorized version of the 1935 logo can be found on the colorized version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), for example. The only place is where plastered over on the DVD releases of Laura (1944) and Curly Top, (1935), which it has the 1935 music played over the black and white 1953 variant of the 20th Century Fox logo. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) are also seen with the 1953 variant of this logo (the 1953 variant was restored on the 2006 DVD releases of two said films, however), but was replaced with the current 1994 20th Century Fox logo below on the pre-2006 DVD releases. The Princess Bride (1987) also originally opened with the silent 1982 20th Century Fox logo, but is replaced with the current MGM lion logo on the DVD release. The 1953 logo is replaced with the 1982 logo on many current prints of the 1979 film Alien. The last movie to use this logo was the 1994 film Airheads.
Scare Factor: Low to medium for the earlier variants and low for the later variants. One of the most wonderful and majestic logos.
2nd Logo
(1994- )
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights", "Ultra Majestic Tower"
Logo: We start on a black background. Then two searchlights swoop across the screen, revealing a top aerial view of the 20th Century Fox structure, redone in CGI. The camera pans down and then across the logo, revealing the cloudy purple/orange Los Angeles and Hollywood skyline in the distance, before settling into its more customary position and angle. The byline "A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY" fades in at the bottom of the screen.
Variants:
- On "Special Edition" versions of the Star Wars trilogy from 1997 onward, as well as the newer Star Wars trilogy, there is no camera panning; it just remains in its usual place until in fades to the Lucasfilm Ltd. logo, which is shown over the CinemaScope55 music extension.
- A special gold logo was spotted on Volcano.
Trivia: The first movie to use this logo was James Cameron's True Lies (1994).
Music/Sound Variant: On the early days of the logo, it used music from the 1980's logo.
Scare Factor: None.
