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Cinema City (Hong Kong)
Logo descriptions by mr3urious
Logo captures and videos courtesy of dire398, cruiseshipz, dorothy1895, and Nlangkirby135
Background: This was a major Hong Kong film studio founded by Raymond Wong, Karl Maka, and Dean Shek in 1970 as Warriors Films Co. It would change its name to Cinema City & Films Co. sometime around 1980, and would begin challenging other studios like Golden Harvest and Shaw Bros. The studio ran into some financial troubles around the early '90s, and attempts to fully revive it were unsuccessful, leaving some spin-off companies like Cinema City Enterprises/Cinema Capital Entertainment and Cinema City Entertainment.
1st Logo
(1980?-1986?)
Logo: On a black background, a blue squarish C zooms out via light trailing effects, followed by a larger yellow C and an even larger red C, forming Cinema City's logo, which glows. A few seconds later, the logo disappears, and the text "CINEMA CITY & FILMS CO." in a blue '70s font with its Chinese name above it in red zooms out, turning the background yellow. "presents" flashes in below. The words remain on screen several seconds.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The zooming and light effects.
Music/Sounds: A loud trumpet fanfare.
Availability: Rare; seen on Hong Kong martial arts films from the time.
Scare Factor: Medium; some may get scared by the loud fanfare coming on all of a sudden, as well as the light effects.
2nd Logo
(1986?-Early 1990s)
Logo: On a red background, the pieces of the Cinema City logo, now in gold, zoom out and shine with a ping on the top left side, except for the largest C, which fades in. The logo shines three times, and a gold line appears below as some white Chinese characters are wiped in on it from left to right via a light beam. "CINEMA CITY & FILMS COMPANY" or "CINEMA CITY COMPANY LIMITED" appears below.
FX/SFX: The pieces of the logo zooming out and shining; pretty good effects for 1986.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized fanfare with five ascending notes as each piece of the logo appears, ending with a drawn-out two-note fanfare
Availability: Rare; seen on Hong Kong martial arts films from the time.
Scare Factor: Low; this is much tamer from before.
3rd Logo
(Early 1990s?)
Logo: On a dark blue/black gradient background with several reddish filmstrips shooting forth and toward the right, a gold C zooms out, followed by a larger silver C and a reddish E. The filmstrips fly away, and several more vertical ones fly across from left to right. The letters zoom out toward the top of the screen and change color to red, yellow, and light blue, forming the Cinema City Enterprises logo, which the same as before, only with an E replacing the small C. "CINEMA CITY ENTERPRISES LTD." fades in below in white, with its name in Chinese just above it.
Variant: There are variants that read "Cinema Capital Entertainments Ltd." as well as "Cinema Capital Entertainments Ltd. Release" with "CINEMA CITY ENTERPRISES LTD. PRODUCTION" below it.
FX/SFX: The filmstrips and the parts of the logo zooming out.
Music/Sounds: A rather loud synth orchestra fanfare with timpanis. Whooshes are heard as the logo parts zoom out.
Availability: Rare, as stated before.
Scare Factor: Low.
4th Logo
(Mid 1990s?)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: TBA
Music/Sounds: TBA
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: TBA
Logo captures and videos courtesy of dire398, cruiseshipz, dorothy1895, and Nlangkirby135
Background: This was a major Hong Kong film studio founded by Raymond Wong, Karl Maka, and Dean Shek in 1970 as Warriors Films Co. It would change its name to Cinema City & Films Co. sometime around 1980, and would begin challenging other studios like Golden Harvest and Shaw Bros. The studio ran into some financial troubles around the early '90s, and attempts to fully revive it were unsuccessful, leaving some spin-off companies like Cinema City Enterprises/Cinema Capital Entertainment and Cinema City Entertainment.
1st Logo
(1980?-1986?)
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The zooming and light effects.
Music/Sounds: A loud trumpet fanfare.
Availability: Rare; seen on Hong Kong martial arts films from the time.
Scare Factor: Medium; some may get scared by the loud fanfare coming on all of a sudden, as well as the light effects.
2nd Logo
(1986?-Early 1990s)
FX/SFX: The pieces of the logo zooming out and shining; pretty good effects for 1986.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized fanfare with five ascending notes as each piece of the logo appears, ending with a drawn-out two-note fanfare
Availability: Rare; seen on Hong Kong martial arts films from the time.
Scare Factor: Low; this is much tamer from before.
3rd Logo
(Early 1990s?)
Variant: There are variants that read "Cinema Capital Entertainments Ltd." as well as "Cinema Capital Entertainments Ltd. Release" with "CINEMA CITY ENTERPRISES LTD. PRODUCTION" below it.
FX/SFX: The filmstrips and the parts of the logo zooming out.
Music/Sounds: A rather loud synth orchestra fanfare with timpanis. Whooshes are heard as the logo parts zoom out.
Availability: Rare, as stated before.
Scare Factor: Low.
4th Logo
(Mid 1990s?)
FX/SFX: TBA
Music/Sounds: TBA
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: TBA
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