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Background: Astor Pictures was founded by Robert M. Savini in 1930 as a distributor of film re-releases and other films. Among their re-releases were films from RKO, Grand National, Monogram and Educational Pictures, but it also distributed early Hammer Films releases. In the early 50's Astor started a TV subsidiary called Atlantic Television. After Savini's death the two companies were acquired by George M. Foley and Franklin Bruder, but it went out of business around 1960.

(1947-????)
Nickname: "The Bodybuilder", "The Man with the Logo"

Logo: On a black background, a still frame of a bodybuilder holding the APC logo fades in and zooms up to the distance. The logo consists of 3 rows of words: "ASTOR", "PICTURES" and "CORP.", with a star below the letters, in a triangular frame. We zoom up closer to the letters that the man holds, with "ASTOR" in a 3-D font and the T extended over the rest of the letters.

FX: The zoom-up.

Music/Sounds: A bombastic 16-note fanfare.

Availability: In public domain. Seen on a 1947 re-release of Li'l Abner (1940), which plasters over the RKO logo. You can check those tapes for this logo first.

Scare Factor: Low to high; depending on what you think of the music and man's face.