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VofDoom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:19:09 CST

Logo descriptions by James Fabiano, Shadeed A. Kelly, and meesterfonnyboy
Logo captures by AsdfTheRevival, Eric S, Shadeed A. Kelly, mr3urious, V of Doom, and Bob Fish
Editions by Shadeed A. Kelly and Bob Fish
Video captures courtesy of mstidham, SeanElGatoTelevision, and VHSGuy2049

Background: MGM Television was established in 1955 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Its first program was the short-lived series The M-G-M Parade, which used the 1953 version of Jackie, at the beginning rather than the end of the program. The company didn't use an end logo until 1957. Most of the pre-1986 library is owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment through Turner Entertainment Co., while MGM Holdings, Inc. under Sony Corp. and its partners owns the rest of the library.

1st Logo
(1957-1959)

Nickname: "MGM Lion Statue"

Logo: On a dark (or gray) background, we see a brown (or drawn) statue of the MGM logo, as seen on movies from 1924-1983, sitting on a pedestal. Wording seen over the statue reads:

AN
MGM - TV
PRESENTATION

or...

AN MGM - TV
PRODUCTION

In some cases, the name of the Executive Producer is seen below.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Extinct. Appeared only on the short-lived series Northwest Passage and The Thin Man, but they're hardly seen on television again.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo
(1959-1973)

Nicknames: "Lion Wallpaper", "Red Lion Wallpaper"

Logo: We see Leo, the infamous MGM lion, inside a black circle border, which reads "METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER TELEVISION". The lion roars once. The background has wallpapered images of a lion's face (as a matter of fact, the same image used as the print logo of MGM Records until 1968).

Variants: There are color variations of this logo:

1959-1962: Live-action backing.
1959-1965: Gray wallpaper backing (on black & white shows).
1959-1973: Red wallpaper backing.
1965-1973: Pink/Butter Yellow wallpaper backing.
1965-1973: Brown wallpaper backing.

FX/SFX: Leo roaring.

Cheesy Factor: Leo's head looks pasted onto another lion's body (even though it isn't); however, the B&W version shows only the lion's face.

Music/Sounds: The ending music to the show plays throughout on some series; on others there is silence. The lion's roaring is heard. Sometimes, a muted trumpet plays some notes to resemble the lion's roar.

Availability: Uncommon, appeared on Dr. Kildare, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Please Don't Eat the Daisies among others. Survives on the Dr. Seuss cartoon special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and reruns of Tom and Jerry on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Most MGM TV series from this era are now owned by Warner Bros. Television (via parent company Time Warner's acquisition of Turner Entertainment Co.), so many current prints of these shows have the Turner Entertainment Globe and the Warner Bros. Television Shield following the MGM Television logo. This logo was last seen on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on AmericanLife Television Network.

Scare Factor: Medium to high, depends on your opinion of the pause between fade-in and the lion's roar.

3rd Logo
(May 18, 1969)

Nicknames: "The Stylized Lion", "The Cold-Cream Jar"

Logo: Fade in; we see the Stylized Lion from 2001 on what appears to be a circular disc. A single roar is heard over the closing theme, then the disc turns on its side (it's approximately the thickness of a cold-cream jar) to reveal the words "MGM TELEVISION" in a curly font, with the initials "MGM" set sideways.

FX/SFX: The turning of the disc.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show, with a single roar.

Availability: Extremely rare; seen on older video releases of The Pogo Special Birthday Special.

Scare Factor: None.

4th Logo
(1970-1991)

Nicknames: "Leo the Lion", "White Ribboning"

Logo: It's the standard MGM logo, which has its origins starting in 1953. A live-action lion named Leo is in a circle of a ribbon-like filmstrip which flows out on the bottom sides in twos. Underneath the circle is a red drama mask. The circle has the phrase "ARS GRATIA ARTIS" (Latin for "Art for the Art's Sake") written on the top, and above it are the words "Metro Goldwyn Mayer." On the left side is "TRADE," and the right "MARK", and on the bottom is the word "TELEVISION." Leo roars once.

Variants: First here are the little differences in the logo, along with dates in which they were used:

1970-1979: A short version of the standard movie design.
1979-1983: The word "TELEVISION" appears during this era. Almost similar to the 1960 MGM theatrical cartoon logo, which looks very tacked/chyroned on, and very unprofessional.
1983-1991: Referred to as "MGM/UA Entertainment Co. TELEVISION". Kids Incorporated used this until 1991.
1986-1991: Another short variant of the movie logo, with the word "TELEVISION" in white cheaply tacked in below.

FX/SFX: Leo roaring, as usual.

Music/Sounds: Just the Lion's roar.

Availability: Rare. The earlier variant was seen intact on earlier episodes of CHiPs and the Dr. Seuss cartoon special Horton Hears a Who! When VH1 did a Fame marathon in 2001, all MGM logos were retained. The MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television version is retained on Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater on Amazon Video on Demand.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; one of the best-known logos, but high on the scary side for people who don't like roaring lions.

5th Logo
(1982-2009)

Nicknames: "Leo the Lion", "Gold Ribboning"

Logo: Same as the 1970 logo, but this time, the ribboning is gold and Leo is in a golden color.

Variants:

1982-1983: A variation around this era exists of the logo where it is a still picture of the then-current MGM/UA Entertainment Co. corporate logo. Referred to as "(FROM) MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television Distribution".
1984-1985: Company identified as MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television. "DIAMOND JUBILEE (in an arc above the ribbon) SIXTY YEARS OF GREAT ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION" (all in silver) is used in the 1984-85 season.
1986: Another variation existed having the 1979 MGM Television logo all in gold.
1986-1993: The company is identified as "MGM/UA Television Productions, An MGM/UA Communications Company". The ribboning is now gold from this point on.
1987-1993: The syndication division is now ID'ed as MGM/UA Telecommunications. The words "Distributed by" appear above the logo and the MGM/UA byline appears below.
1991-2009: A short version of the movie design without anything below. Appears in either black & white or color in 1996.
1992: A version reads "MGM/UA" and no byline below. Seen on the final season of The Young Riders, and several network made-for-TV movies.
1993-1996: The company is reverted back to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, along with the byline "MGM Worldwide Television Group" or "MGM/UA Telecommunications Group" underneath the logo. For In the Heat of the Night, there is a byline that says "In The Heat Of The Night" Property Of United Artists".
1996-2005: The syndication division is referred to as "MGM Domestic Television Distribution", along with the new lion roar track (finally). Global arm referred to as "MGM Worldwide Television Group". In 2002, the widescreen version of MGM DTD begins.
1996-2009: The logo was shifted up some for television distribution without anything underneath the logo. Appears in either black & white or color.
1997-2004: Network arm referred to as "MGM Television Entertainment".
1999-2009: Referred to as "MGM International Television Distribution" for global distribution.
2001-2009: A short version of the current movie logo with the URL, "www.mgm.com" below the logo using only part one of the lion roar.
2005-2009: Referred to as "MGM Worldwide Television Distribution" for US.

FX/SFX: Leo roaring, as usual.

Music/Sounds: Just the Lion's roar.

Music/Sound Variants: There are different sound bites of the lion's roar:

1982-1996: The last lion roar from the 1957-1982 lion roar.
1982: The MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television Distribution logo either had the show's closing music (such as on the cartoon series Pandamonium and Meatballs and Spaghetti), or the 1982 United Artists Television logo theme followed by the last roar sound bite from 1957-1982.
1991-1992/1996-: The first lion roar sound from the 1995 lion roar.
1991-1999: The last lion roar sound from the 1987 lion roar or the 1957 lion roar.
A long version exists on Holiday Heart, Rocky V, and Terminator 2. MGM Domestic Television Distribution only.
There is also a silent version on Soul Plane. MGM Domestic Television Distribution only.
Half of Leo's first roar is used for the warped version.

Availability: Common for MGM Domestic, Worldwide, International Television Distribution and with and without the MGM url and they can be found on current shows like the 2008 revival of American Gladiators on NBC, Spaceballs: The Animated Series on G4, and syndicated shows like Stargate: SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The Outer Limits, Reno 911!, and Chapelle's Show, among others. Extremely rare for MGM/UA Telecommunications and it's seen on season 3 of the 1985 version of The Twilight Zone on Syfy. Rare for MGM Worldwide Television Group and it's found on the final season of In the Heat of the Night on WGN America. Also global wise on all MGM and NBC series. The MGM/UA Television Productions variation is extremely rare and was recently seen on Moving Target on Encore Mystery and season 6 of In the Heat of the Night on WGN America. The gold version of the 1979 logo is extinct and was seen on Kids Incorporated and the MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television Distribution logos are also extinct. The warped version of the 2001 logo is very rare and only seen so far on the pilot of the 90s revival of Dark Shadows.

Scare Factor: Same as the last logo.

6th Logo
(2009- )

Nicknames: "Leo the Lion", "Metallic Ribboning"

Logo: It's only the short version of the 2008 theatrical logo, reading below "MGM WORLDWIDE TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" for United States, "MGM INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" for global distribution, or the MGM website, just like the last logo all in the same font as the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lettering. Again, Leo roars once.

FX/SFX: Leo roaring.

Music/Sounds: The same first half of the 1995 lion roar or the 2008 roar.

Availability: Brand new and fairly common, was first seen on First Business. Can also be seen at the end of several classic new prints of MGM movies on local networks and cable broadcasts, especially seen on classic 007 movies that were aired on Sleuth and WGN America among other networks, as well on international prints of non-MGM shows and movies.

Scare Factor: Same as the last logo.

Classic Paramount Cartoons

VofDoom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:43 CST

Logo descriptions by Argus Sventon, James Fabiano, and Jason Jones
Logo captures by V of Doom and GreenLantern40
Editions by V of Doom, Eric S., Bob Fish, and others
Video capture courtesy of Eric S.

1st Logo
(1926-1938)

Nickname: "30s Toon Mountain"

Logo: Against a multi-colored sky backdrop is a third dimensional dark-colored mountain surrounded by a round border of 23 stars. (Don't ask! We don't know why there are only 23 in this version.) By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. The title screen then appears on a specialty background: "Max Fleischer Presents..." with whoever is the star of the cartoon. (i.e. Betty Boop, Popeye) After the main title card, you would see the credits followed by the cartoon title, or vice versa.

Variants:

From 1935-39, the text "Adolph Zukor Presents A Max Fleischer Cartoon" was seen instead of the Fleischer text. Most color cartoons would have the byline... "Adolph Zukor Presents A Max Fleischer COLOR CLASSIC, In Technicolor"
For shorts featuring live-action model sets, a special byline appeared at the start of the cartoon. It read [Special Patent Process Used In This Production]
Used the following byline on the opening of later shows featuring the above mentioned... [Stereoptical Process and Apparatus Patented. Paten Number 2054414]
Popeye and Betty Boop shorts feature this logo in black-and-white.

FX/SFX: None, except for the flowing clouds in the background.

Music/Sounds: The beginning/end of a cartoon's theme music.

Availability: Can usually be seen when Boomerang is showing Popeye: The Sailor shorts on Late Night: Black & White. May be more visible if they continue to restore the shorts and replace the NTA and AAP logos with the originals.

Scare Factor: Low.

2nd Logo
(1938-1943)

Nickname: "3-D Mountain"

Logo: Against a multi-colored sky backdrop is a third dimensional light-colored mountain surrounded by a round border of 24 stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. The title screen then appears on a specialty background: "Max Fleischer Presents..." with whoever is the star of the cartoon. (i.e. Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman) After the main title card, you would see the credits followed by the cartoon title, or vice versa.

Variants:

Used "Paramount Presents" in this era. Most color cartoons would have the byline... "Paramount Presents A Max Fleischer COLOR CLASSIC, In Technicolor"
After the Fleischers left in 1942, the animation studio became known as Famous Studios
Used the following byline on the opening of some shows... [Stereoptical Process and Apparatus Patented. Patent Number 2054414]. Replaced with "In Technicolor" at the end of most color shorts
Like the previous logo, Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons featured this logo in black-and-white.

FX/SFX: Just the flowing clouds in the background.

Music/Sounds: The beginning/end of a cartoon's theme music.

Availability: Can usually be seen when Boomerang is showing Popeye: The Sailor shorts on Late Night: Black & White and Superman shorts. May be more visible if they continue to restore the shorts and replace the NTA and AAP logos with the originals.

Scare Factor: Low.

3rd Logo
(1943-1954)

Nickname: "'40s Toon Mountain"

Logo: Against a blue sky with white clouds is a red mountain surrounded by a round border of 24 stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. Usually at the end of the film featured the following byline in these two variations...

1943-1947: In TECHNICOLOR, In CINECOLOR, In POLACOLOR
1947-1954: Color by TECHNICOLOR

Variants:

Some variations of the mountain included one with a darker BG from the top of the screen and the mountain capped with snow.
Another has a brown mountain and the BG in a yellow-orange shade.
Until 1948, there were no clouds surrounding the mountain.
A B&W variation appears on the U.M.&M print of the Little Lulu cartoon "Loose in a Caboose".
On the Noveltoon cartoon "Santa's Surprise", there is a special variation of the logo in which one of the stars turns yellow and becomes the star of a Christmas tree.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Over the Paramount logo plays the theme of any cartoon short (i.e. Casper, Herman and Katnip, Baby Huey).

Availability: Can usually be seen when Boomerang is showing Popeye shorts. May be more visible if they continue to restore the shorts and replace the NTA and AAP logos with the originals.

Scare Factor: Low.

4th Logo (Noveltoons Custom Logo)
(1943-1955)

Nickname: "Jack-In-The-Box Opening"

Logo: An extreme close-up of a box takes up the screen, with a red border surrounding a peach outlining. Inside is a picture of a brownish mountain, against a blue sky with white clouds (without clouds from 1943-1948) and surrounded by a round border of 24 stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. The box zooms down to the bottom center of the screen. A Jack-In-The-Box pops from inside the box, opening the word "NOVELTOON". The picture fades, leaving the title card over a plain color backdrop. Then more words appear above and below the title. On this, we see "Paramount PRESENTS A NOVELTOON, in (Color by) TECHNICOLOR". After this, the Famous Studios logo appears on an orange screen.

Variant: Was referred to as: "A Paramount Champion: Brought Back By Popular Demand" on those cartoons that won an award.

FX/SFX: The Jack-In-The-Box popping out of the box.

Music/Sounds: A Jazzy xylophone tune during the '40s and mid '50s.

Availability: It all depends on which public domain tape you buy. Some '40s Noveltoons have NTA titles on them. Since only a few Noveltoons were included in the U.M.&M. sale, most have Harveytoon titles. A few Noveltoons (such as The Enchanted Square, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and The Wee Men) do NOT use this opening, but rather the standard Paramount cartoon logo.

Scare Factor: Minimal, some don't like a Jack-in-the-box opening.

5th Logo (Little Lulu/Little Audrey Custom Logo)
(1943-1955)

Nicknames: "Little Lulu/Little Audrey Opening", "Spinning Star"

Logo: Against a blue sky with white clouds (without clouds from 1943-1948) is a reddish mountain surrounded by a round border of stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. A star then spins towards the screen from the center of the logo. Inside the star, we see either Little Lulu's or Little Audrey's head appear. Several variations were used.

Little Lulu:

Original Variant: After Lulu's head appeared, the star faded away, and we see the words "Paramount PRESENTS" at the top of the screen, followed by "LITTLE LULU" in large printed letters. Below this we see "by Marge" written out, and then the word "from" below "by Marge", this too written out. The words "SATURDAY EVENING POST" are printed out, and below this we see the word, "in" written out, and then below it in large block lettering, the word "TECHNICOLOR".The backdrop of all of this is the Paramount mountain and the stars, which remains until after the words "A FAMOUS STUDIOS PRODUCTION" appear in various fonts depending on the release year. After this, the mountain logo disappears.
NTA Variant: The opening "A Paramount Picture" title is replaced with the NTA logo; NTA shows the rest of the opening sequence, except for the fact that the words "Paramount PRESENTS" and "in TECHNICOLOR" are blacked out.

Little Audrey:

Original Variant: After Little Audrey's head appeared, the words "Little Audrey" appear in large written out letters. Then the entire logo fades away to a new title card. On this, we see "Paramount PRESENTS" then "A NOVELTOON", written in some unusual font in capital letters, with "Color by TECHNICOLOR" below it. After this, the Famous Studios logo appears on an orange screen.
NTA Variant: Same as for Lulu, except they finally get to the regular titles when the Famous Studios logo comes in.

FX/SFX: Spinning star, same used for Popeye. However, unlike Popeye, Audrey had a fast spin centered, while Lulu's spins much less than 360 degrees. However, their heads are intact the entire sequence.

Cheesy Factor: The "Little Lulu" variation used a cheesy 1940's style "spin" that is reminiscent of old commercial graphics.

Music/Sounds: Either the Little Lulu or Little Audrey theme.

Availability: It all depends on which public domain tape you buy. Most Little Lulu cartoons have U.M.&M. titles on them. Since only a few Little Audrey cartoons were included in the U.M.&M. sale, most have Harveytoon titles. Only two Little Audrey cartoons, "The Lost Dream" and "Tarts and Flowers" have U.M.&M. titles, so most have NTA titles. Now, a few Little Audrey cartoons have original titles, or recreations of them. However one Little Lulu cartoon on a Republic Pictures Home Video tape has a complete Paramount logo sequence.

Scare Factor: Minimal.

6th Logo (Popeye Custom Logo)
(1943-1957)

Nicknames: "Popeye Opening", "Spinning Star"

Logo: Against a blue sky with white clouds (without clouds from 1943-1948) is a red mountain surrounded by a round border of stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. A star then spins towards the screen from the center of the logo. When it stops, Popeye appears in it and toots his pipe. The title screen then appears on the mountain background: "Paramount Presents Popeye the Sailor, etc. etc." After this the logo on the mountain now reads, "A FAMOUS STUDIOS PRODUCTION," after which we get the regular credits. (An updated version of this logo was used for the 1960s Popeye television shorts, except with the King Features Syndicate logo)

FX/SFX: The spinning star.

Music/Sounds: Over the Paramount logo plays either the generic cartoon sailor song The Sailor's Hornpipe (a.k.a. Popeye the Sailor Man) or an abridged version that ends on a high note. The former is the music for the AAP Popeye opening. The latter is the more common, and was updated for the opening to the 1960s Popeye television shorts.

Availability: Can usually be seen when Boomerang is showing Popeye shorts. May be more visible if they continue to restore the shorts and replace the AAP logos with the originals.

Scare Factor: Low.

7th Logo
(1954-1959)

Nickname: "50s Toon Mountain"

Logo: Against a navy blue sky with white clouds is a reddish mountain surrounded by a smaller-sized round border of 24 stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. Usually at the end of the film featured the following byline in these three variations...

1954-1956: Color by TECHNICOLOR
1956-1959: TECHNICOLOR®

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Over the Paramount logo plays the theme of any cartoon short (i.e. Casper, Herman and Katnip, Baby Huey, Noveltoons).

Availability: Can usually be seen when Boomerang is showing Popeye shorts. May be more visible if they continue to restore the shorts and replace the AAP and Harvey Films logos with the originals.

Scare Factor: Low.

8th Logo
(1958-1967)

Nickname: "Toon Mountain '60s"

Logo: Against a blue sky with white clouds is a red mountain capped with snow and surrounded by a round border of 24 stars. By the top of the mountain are the words:

A
Paramount
Picture

in the Paramount font. The title card of the featured cartoon fades in, after which we get the regular credits. Most variety cartoons would have the Noveltoons or Modern Madcaps label with "Paramount Presents" in the Paramount logo font. Also, most cartoon titles would have the pseudo Paramount ident alongside the copyright information.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Over the Paramount logo plays the theme music of any cartoon short. Most Noveltoon/Modern Madcaps will play a slapstick-type underscore in horns and flutes, as heard on Harveytoon features.

Availability: Rare. Did appear, however, on Nickelodeon's Kartoon Kablooey back in 1991.

Scare Factor: Low.
_______________________________________________________________

Copyright Notices: Here is some information about the copyrights on the Paramount cartoons:

1926-1930 Copyright © by Paramount-Famous Lasky Corporation
1930-1933 Copyright © by Paramount-Publix Corporation
1933-1935 Copyright © by Paramount Productions, Inc. (Note that Paramount was in bankruptcy)
1935-1939 Copyright © by Paramount Pictures, Inc.
1939-1950 Copyright © by Paramount Pictures, Inc. (Note: This was in the Paramount font)
1950-1967 Copyright © by Paramount Pictures Corporation

Public Broadcasting Service

VofDoom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:20:28 CST

Logo descriptions by Nicholas Aczel and Kris Starring

Background: NET was a former major educational and public TV network, founded in early 1952 and incorporated in November of that year. Among their original affiliates were WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, WQED Pittsburgh and various others. Originating from The Educational Television and Radio Center from 1952-1959, and later The National Educational Television and Radio Center from 1959 to 1962, when the radio portion was dropped. It was succeeded by PBS in 1970.

National Educational Television

1st Logo
(1950s-1962)

Nickname: “The NET Circle”

Logo: Just the black letters "NET" in a white circle on a gray background.

FX/SFX: None.

Cheesy Factor: Since NET in its early years was a limited service for distributing educational films produced by local stations nationally, and perhaps because of that there is not much in the way of design and production values, this was probably intended as a placeholder and not as an official NET logo.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: The only known surviving film print to contain this logo is a 1955 episode of the WTTW Chicago series Discovery at the Brookfield Zoo, available for viewing on the Museum of Broadcast Communications Archives website. Since the network was known as ETRC at the time, it is possible that this is a reprint with the NET logo tacked on.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo
(1952-1960s)

Nickname: "NET Map of America"

Logo: This consists of the typewriter letters "NET", each in a segmented rounded square, on a white map of the U.S. inside a black circle on a white background, with what looks like an antenna on the map. "NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION" and "EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND RESOURCE CENTER" are shown above and below, respectively, in really small print.

FX/SFX: None.

Cheesy Factor: Most likely another placeholder.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Not sure if any old film prints at the Museum of Broadcast Communications have this logo, but it did show up, twice I might add, on Because of You: 50 Years of Channel 9 (which I mentioned was for KETC in St. Louis in that station's CLG Wiki page).

Scare Factor: None.

3rd Logo
(May 1952-October 1966)

Nickname: "The Carpet"

Logo: On a dark background with little white "stars" (kinda looks like carpet), we see the "Roof" logo in white (The words "NET" with the T connecting to a roof that hangs over the N and E, with an antenna sticking out of the roof).

FX/SFX: None.

Cheesy Factor: The background looks like they just aimed the camera at the floor!

Music/Sounds/Voiceover:

Until October 1962, an announcer said "This is National Educational Television."
An alternate version of the logo featured the announcer saying, "This is N-E-T, the National Educational Television network.". This began in 1955 and outlived its predecessor, being used until 1966.

Availability: Extremely rare; one surviving source is a 1960 episode of the WTTW Chicago series Beginnings, available for viewing on the Museum of Broadcast Communications Archives website.

Scare Factor: Low; the darkness and announcer being scary is understandable, but it's a slightly different story with the next logo...

4th Logo
(1966-1968)

Nickname: "NET Globe-Like Birdcage"

Logo: On a black screen, several dots flash near the center of the screen (a la Screen Gems “Dancing Sticks” logo), and then we see a circle being drawn in the counterclockwise direction. A line is drawn through the circle going downwards, which quickly vanishes. A small fire can be seen starting within the circle. Another line is drawn through the center of the circle from left to right. Two lines like that on a Worldvision-like globe are drawn. Another pair, closer to the circle are drawn, like that of the first lines, and then two horizontal lines above the first horizontal line. The camera zooms backwards and we see a thick line (the top of the T) being drawn under the ball of fire, which later connects to the ball of fire. A vertical line (the beginning of the N) is then formed. The T then finishes, and then the diagonal part of the N appears. Lastly, the E is formed. The fire continues blazing until we fade out.

FX/SFX: The dots, the live-action fire, and the lines being drawn.

Cheesy Factor: The animation is rough, especially when the letters are formed.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A pinball-like theme, which turns into a bombastic but brief brass piece. Almost immediately afterward, an announcer can be heard saying "This is N-E-T, the National Educational Television network.".

Availability: Extremely rare; can be seen on the 1965 program Changing the World: Southeast Asia, the Other War available for viewing on the Museum of Broadcast Communications Archives website. It has also been preserved on the Ten Blocks on the Camino Real DVD.

Scare Factor: Medium; even though it is not as widely remembered as the 1968 logo and later PBS logos, this could be quite scary, as the music, spooky announcer, live-action fire, and animation could set off people.

5th Logo
(1968-1970)

Top: The regular variants
Middle: The "MisteRogers" variants

Nicknames: "The Roof", "The NET Logo", "Tri-Colored Roof Of Doom"

Logo: First, the left section of the screen fills with red from the bottom, the middle section fills with yellow from the top, and the right section fills with blue from the bottom. One by one, each colored section flips to form the letters "NET" on a black background. Then either one of two things would happen:

1968-1969: The words “NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION” appear above the NET logo and morph into a line, which bends to form a gable roof with an aerial antenna on top, which is connected to the T. The announcer says “The following program is from N-E-T, the National Educational Television network.” (opening) or “This is N-E-T, the National Educational Television network.” (closing).
1969-1970: A blue line is drawn above the letters, which bends to form a gable roof with an aerial antenna on top, which is connected to the T. The announcer says “The following program is from N-E-T, the public television network.” (opening) or “This is N-E-T, the public television network.” (closing).

Variants:

The 1968 version came in both black and white and color versions.
Some shows, such as Black Journal, used opening versions of this logo.
On the first few seasons (1968-1970) of MisteRogers Neighborhood (including some early black and white ones), the NET logo was built into the apartment building that was part of the toy neighborhood in the show’s opening and closing (it was in black on B&W broadcasts to stand out better). This feature remained in reruns until the mid 1980s. A copyright notice to “National Educational Television and Radio Center” continued to be used on the show through 1971.
There could be a variation where the "antenna" on top of the "roof" rotates, sort of like a wind up toy.

FX/SFX: The flipping effects.

Cheesy Factor: The flipping effects are a very cheesy '60s and early '70s FX standard.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A violin-like synth fanfare composed by Eric Siday, similar in style to his Screen Gems “S From Hell” and CBS “In Color” jingles, and the announcer saying his part. The 1968 and 1969 versions had different announcers.

Availability: Extremely rare; the B&W 1968 logo made an appearance on the VHS release of Our Neighbor, Fred Rogers, but was cut from TV rebroadcasts of the documentary since 2003. It can be seen on several shows available for viewing at The Paley Center for Media, including the series premiere episodes of MisteRogers Neighborhood (1968 version, B&W), Black Journal (1968 version, color), and Sesame Street (1969 version, color). The 1969 opening and closing versions can also be seen on the Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 DVD set on the test pilot episode.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; the creepy synth fanfare, the announcer, the dark background, and the poor audio and grainy film may be quite scary for those who aren't used to seeing it.
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Public Broadcasting Service

1st Logo
(1970-1971)

Logo: Just a black background with the words:

PUBLIC
BROADCASTING
SERVICE

stacked on top of each other.

FX/SFX: None.

Cheesy Factor: The logo is TOO plain. It was probably a placeholder for the next logo.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: MacDonald Carey says "This is PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service." That's it.

Availability: Extremely rare; it was used concurrently with the NET logo from 1970 to 1971 mid-season (as a placeholder logo) and then quickly replaced with the 2nd logo. The best way to find it is on PBS Home Video tapes.

Scare Factor: Low; though not widely seen, the announcer might get to some. But it would somewhat change with the second logo...

2nd Logo
(1971-1984)

Nicknames: "The Tri-Colored Everyman P-Heads," "The Tri-Colored PBS logo," "1971 PBS logo", "The Tri-Heads from/of Hell/Doom"

Logo: On a black background, an abstract-cut blue P zooms out to upper-mid screen. The P turns into a P-shaped head, albeit facing left, with the text "PUBLIC" written below, and both move to the left of the screen. An abstract-cut orange B appears to the right of the P-Head, and two black dots appear in the B, the latter dot coinciding with the text "BROADCASTING" appearing below the "PUBLIC." An abstract-cut green S appears to the right of the B and black dots appear twice as well, the latter dot coinciding with the text "SERVICE" appearing below the "BROADCASTING." The final text stack reads:

PBS
PUBLIC--------------
BROADCASTING
SERVICE------------

FX/SFX: The Scanimated P-Heads' animations.

Cheesy Factor: Really choppy limited animation.

Music/Sounds: A telephone-like Moog synthesizer scale descending rapidly, followed by five Moog synthesizer tones.

Availability: Ultra rare; appeared on older prints of PBS shows produced from 1971-1984 for many years, but due to replacement with newer logos and newer shows, it is on the chopping block of extinction on TV as of 1990, but can be found on PBS Home Video releases of 1971-1984 PBS programs up until January 1, 1991, including Castle, hosted by David Macaulay. A surprising find of this logo was seen on an episode (circa 1999-2000) of Saturday Night Live hosted by Freddie Prinze Jr., in which it opened a spoof of Charlie Rose. This was very surprising, considering past sketches spoofing PBS shows have used more recent PBS logos. The logo can also be found on the DVD sets The Best of the Electric Company and Sesame Street: Old School. In the latter case, this logo even replaces the NET and 1970 PBS logos on the respective episodes! It has also been preserved on the VHS and DVD of The Scarlett Letter and a DVD for KERA's coverage of the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Two other sightings of this logo include KETC's 50th anniversary special and WTVS' analog-to-digital sign-off (although in the latter, only the last part of the logo plays, [the part where dots appear in the S with "SERVICE" appearing below] before cutting to WTVS' program intro tag from the 1970s, both with generic piano music played over the logos).

Scare Factor: Medium bordering on high. The creepy Moog synthesizer music and primitive animation are certain to unnerve more than a few unsuspecting viewers, especially if viewed in a completely darkened room or succeeding credits with a black background. Nevertheless, this logo has a huge following, so much of a following, that, in 2007, one of the CLG members named David Gill did a documentary of his own called 1971 PBS I.D. Monologue- Part 1, which can be seen on YouTube.

3rd Logo
(1984-1989)

Nicknames: "Split Profile", "The Everyman/Everyperson P"

Logo: On a black background, a blue P-head appears on the upper-mid screen, facing backwards. A piece comes out to the right and settles itself about half an inch away. The text "PBS" appears below in a slab serif font, which was designed specifically for PBS.

Variants:

On the series premiere of Square One TV, after the logo forms, the P-head and letters multiply off into the distance, with voiceovers singing "and on...and on...and on..." (taken from a song from the episode) until it fades.
On one Saturday Night Live sketch from the '80s, which parodies a PBS show, a 3D variant was used. It is highly unlikely that it was used on PBS itself.
Another version was made, where the letters PBS were in yellow instead of white, so as to enhance the color quality of the identity.

FX/SFX: The P-head appearing and stretching.

Cheesy Factor: Simple animation.

Music/Sounds: A majestic piano chord, followed by six pizzicato tones, and then a softer version of the piano chord.

Availability: Scarce; appeared on old prints of PBS shows produced from 1984-89. Can also be found on early PBS Home Video releases from the '80s; just look for a banner with the P Head on the left and "PBS VIDEO" filling the entire rest of the banner. The 3D variant can be seen on Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman on VHS and DVD.

Scare Factor: Minimal; the music is fairly dramatic and the logo does not give much warning to its appearance, so some may be startled by it. But much tamer than the previous logo because of the use of acoustic instruments instead of synths.

4th Logo
(1989-1993)

Nicknames: "Transparent Blue P-Head", "Merging Glass P-Head"

Logo: On a black background, a side-facing transparent blue P-head folds to the right, leaving behind a residue trail of P-Heads. The residue trail fades into the PBS logo from before, which settles itself in the center of the screen, occupying almost all of it. Several white lines wipe across the bottom of the screen, leaving the text "PBS" in the same font as before to the bottom left.

Variant: In an alternate version of the ident, the P-head appears just by fading in with the PBS text. No lines streak across the screen; therefore it is a still version of the ident. The same music, as in the ident's original version, is used. Once again, the announcer says "This is PBS.".

FX/SFX: The P-head folding, the lines wiping. Great animation for its time.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A bell/string tune, followed by an announcer who says "This is PBS.". The announcer is said to be Liam Neeson.

Availability: Rare; as with other vintage PBS logos, the chance of showing up on TV now is almost nada, but some PBS Home Video releases from the era at libraries may have it. Just look for a square in the top-left corner of the front of the box with "PBS VIDEO" below a P-head.

Scare Factor: Minimal; the dark vibe of the logo may get to some, but the music and animation are cleaner this time.

5th Logo
(1989-1998)

Nicknames: "Pink/Purple PBS Alternate ID," "Blurry P-Head"

Logo: We see a blurry image of a pink glass P-head in front of other shapes. As the logo progresses, we see the letters "PBS" appear to the left of the P-head in the typewriter font, and the image becomes slightly clearer.

FX/SFX: The "PBS" appearing. Other than that, none.

Cheesy Factor: The blurriness, which may not have been intentional.

Music/Sounds: Same as the fourth logo.

Availability: Appeared on older prints of PBS shows like Triumph of the Nerds,Square One TV, and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.It can be found on an Antarctica tape after a Newton's Apple segment on parachutes.

Scare Factor: Minimal; the music combined with the somewhat intimidating image might not sit well.

6th Logo
(1993-1996)

Nicknames: "Orange CGI P-Head", "Glass P-Head", "Pink P-Heads"

Logo: In an pink/orange lighted environment, several transparent ellipses revealing people faces appear and disappear one at a time. Then we zoom out through a circle, which turns out to be the eye in the PBS P-Head standing on a floor, made from glass. To the left of the P-Head, the text "PBS" rotates to face the screen.

Variants: Here are some of the variations that have been seen of late, with a list of PBS stars in each variant in chronological order:

News and Information: This variant of the same PBS logo, anchors for The NewsHour and hosts of public-affairs shows appear and disappear one at a time same as several transparent ellipses with an same announcer says "This is PBS.".
Kids and Family: The same 1993 PBS logo features the same transparent ellipses revealing characters from Sesame Street, Barney and Friends, Lamb Chop's Playalong and 3-2-1 Contact appear and disappear one in a time with an announcer says, "This is PBS.".
PBS Stations: Also, the PBS 1993 logo has same transparent ellipses revealing local PBS station logos appear and disappear one at a time with an same announcer says, "This is PBS, broadcasting over 400 public television stations across the US.".
How-to/Cooking/Gardening: The same PBS logo has the same transparent ellipses revealing clips from PBS how-to shows appear and disappear one at a time with an same announcer saying, "This is PBS.".
General Programming: The full version of this same logo features the same transparent ellipses revealing PBS kids show characters, scenes from Sesame Street, hosts from PBS public-affair shows, Wall Street Week clips, some local hosts from PBS stations, an clip from Washington Week in Review clips from how-to shows, some scenes from Mystery and some people faces appear and disappear one at a time with the full version of the same music with an same announcer says, "This is PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service.".

FX/SFX: The animation, the zoom out, the letters turning.

Cheesy Factor: The zoom-out and animation look sped up. Otherwise, it looks nice (contrary to its first nickname, it was not computer animated, it was created on film with models; the P-Heads were frosted glass and the "PBS" text was rotated with rostrums).

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A funky piano and choir boogie tune, followed by an announcer (Schell) who says "This is PBS.". The music was composed by Peter Fish, who has also done music for CBS News.

Availability: Uncommon; again, it has fleeting appearances on PBS today, but your best bet to find it is '90s PBS Home Video tapes at your local library. Also, from October 1992 to August 1993, this logo was used concurrently with the 4th logo.

Scare Factor: Minimal; the weird music and fast pace of the logo might catch some off guard.

7th Logo
(1996-1998)

Nickname: "The PBS Windowsill"

Logo: On a black background, a CGI window appears with a birds-eye view of the earth, a plastic globe spinning on the top right and a telescope rotating on the bottom left. The yellow PBS P-Head appears in front of the window and grows smaller as the window grows bigger. As the two meet each other, the window disappears. The P-Head take it's place in the top center of the screen and turns to blue as the text "PBS" fades in below them.

FX/SFX: The CGI effects.

Cheesy Factor: The dissolve effect used to make the window and its surrounding objects disappear as they penetrate through the P-heads.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A new age tune with guitars and flutes, followed by a female announcer (Lauren Bacall) who says "This is PBS.".

Availability: Same as before; appears on TV sometimes, but PBS Home Video tapes at the library are an easier way to find it.

Scare Factor: Low; might surprise you the first time you see it, but it's harmless.

8th Logo
(1998-2002)

Nickname: "Circle P-Heads"

Logo: On a sky background, a person standing to the left covers his or her head with a black circle with the PBS P-Head on it in white. Acrobats jump from all directions off the circle. The text "PBS" appears to the right, with the web address www.pbs.org appearing below it.This is the VERY last logo that used the words "This Is PBS".

Variants:

Man in gold shirt; female acrobats do a backflip.
Man in blue shirt; different female acrobats do a backflip.
Woman in blue shirt; male acrobats do a "side spin".
Woman in dark red shirt; male acrobats curl into a ball and spin around.
Man in light red shirt; same acrobats from 3rd variant.
Older woman in red shirt; same acrobats from 4th variant.
Woman in light red shirt; same acrobats from 4th variant.
Man in dark blue shirt; same acrobats from 2nd variant.
Woman in red shirt; same acrobats from 3rd variant.

FX/SFX: The computer effects used to shrink the acrobats and superimpose them around the circle.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A new age percussion tune, followed by the female announcer from the previous logo (Lauren Bacall) who says "This is PBS.".

Availability: Still shown very much, while no longer used as the main, due to it being more recent this logo can usually be found on reruns and even some new shows produced. It can also be found on PBS Home Video tapes such as "An Ice Cream Show". Also, if your city carries the digital channel PBS World, the logo may be kept intact on reruns of shows from the time, such as '98-'02 episodes of Scientific American Frontiers.

Scare Factor: None.

9th Logo
(2002- )

Nicknames: “Be More”, “We Are PBS”, “I am PBS”

Logo: How do I describe a logo that changes its look almost entirely with every variant, and has many things happening very quickly? Basically, we see a letterboxed clip show of live-action footage, filmed on a large set with hardwood floor and a background of shaggy brown curtains. Culturally and generationally diverse people are employed in the variants, each giving different performances on-camera. As the last clip plays, we see the “Circle P-Head” logo animating with the word "PBS" on the right and the slogan “Be more” on the left. The text has been modified a bit after the past 18 years. Throughout the bumper, a bug for the URL pbs.org is seen in the lower left corner.

Variants: Here are some of the variations that have been seen of late, with a list of the clips in each variant in chronological order:

Young People: A teenage girl presses her hands on her boyfriend’s cheeks and gives him a kiss; a mother plays with her baby’s feet; a dad and his little boy are holding guitars; mom and daughter are side by side; a mom runs pulling a red wagon holding her two little girls (Edie Mirman: “We are PBS.”).
Performers: A man sits on a stool holding a guitar; a dressy man plays his trumpet; a teenage boy is "bopping" to his headphones; a young dancer spins in her dress; an elderly man takes a bow (David Kaye: “We are PBS.”).
Flowers: A close-up of a smiling woman’s head, then we see her holding a large bouquet of flowers, a close-up of the flowers, and finally a close-up of the woman holding the flowers (Helen Mirren: “I am PBS.". The music is given a “Baroque” arrangement).
Daddy and Son: A dad and his little boy are holding guitars; a close-up of them playing; and the dad and son on a playground swing (Kyle Eastwood: “We are PBS.” The music is arranged as horn-spiked guitar-rock).
Generations: A mother holds her baby; an old man smiling; a young man takes off his cowboy hat. (Edie Mirman: “We are PBS.”)
There is also a version of the logo that has no live-action footage. A burst of light comes in from either side of the screen, and we see an outline of the "P-head" logo (in a style similar to the 1984 logo). Other lighting effects occur, and at the end the circle "P-Head" logo animates, with "PBS" on its right side and "Be more" on its left. There is no voice-over.
On Carrier, the voice-over says “This show will return in a moment over most of these local stations. We are PBS.”.
There is another version with a voice-over saying "The following PBS show is closed captioned.".

FX/SFX: Mostly live action, except for the logo animating at the end.

Music/Sounds/Voiceover: A majestic orchestral tune. The same tune is always used, but is rearranged for some variants and has a different voice-over (see below for examples).

Availability: Currently in use on most PBS first-run shows. The variants are used randomly. The logo can also be seen on PBS Video tapes.

Scare Factor: None; you might get caught off guard depending the music, though.

Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.

Shadeed329 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:53:09 CST

Logo descriptions by Matt Williams, Cameron McCaffrey, and Gene Snitsky

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Background: This company was originally formed in 1944 by MGM animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney as H-B Enterprises in order to produce sponsored films and later television commercials. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job, and the company was re-named Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1959, acquired by Taft Broadcasting in 1967, which the company was later renamed to Great American Broadcasting in 1988 . In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, initially with help from Apollo Investment Group. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both went into semi-retirement, yet continued to serve as ceremonial figureheads for the studio. The same year, the company was renamed to H-B Production Co. and renamed again as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. in 1994. During the late 1990s, Turner turned Hanna-Barbera towards primarily producing new material for its Cartoon Network, which had been built around reruns from the Hanna-Barbera library. In October 1996, Turner was bought out by Time Warner. With William Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Joe Barbera remained with Warner Bros. Animation until his death in 2006. Today, Hanna-Barbera still survives as an in-name-only unit of Warner Bros. Animation for distribution and marketing of properties and productions associated with Hanna-Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo.

1st Logo
(1957-1990)

Logo: Not really a logo, but more of an in-credit text. The words “A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION” appear on-screen, either at the beginning of a short or at the end of a show. This practice continued well into the 1980s, years after H-B introduced an in-credit logo for its shows.

Trivia: The right half of the 1959 logo of "A Hanna-Barbera Production" eventually became the logo for the Boomerang network.

Variants: While the style of the wording varied from show to show, there were four variants commonly seen:

“HANNA-BARBERA” is in a “scrawly” font used for crediting the two producers on latter-day MGM shorts and many of the original H-B Productions series. Used mainly on early shorts, in a blue “splotch” on a yellow background.
“Hanna-Barbera” is in a 60s-esque “cursive” font commonly known as “Tabitha”. Used within a similar “splotch” device, but is also seen at the end of several 1960s series such as The Jetsons and Top Cat.
The entire wording is in a bold, all-caps font, usually Franklin Gothic Condensed. Seen at the end of many 1960s series, most notably Johnny Quest and The Flintstones. The font would vary for some shows.
“HANNA-BARBERA” is in a bold, “tubular” font most similar to the latter-day Filmways logo. Used around the late 70s into the 1980s-usually seen on Challenge of the Superfriends among others.

FX/SFXCheesy Factor: None, but the 4th variation is a bit harsh on the eyes.

Music/Sounds: Nothing except whatever theme song was being played over it.

Availability: Common; still preserved on all H-B shows, as it’s in the credits.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo
(1966/1968-1969)

Nickname: "The H-B Box", "Zooming-Out/Fading-In H-B Box"

Logo: On a black background, three small orange rectangles appear, the outer two stretching down, the one in the center extending up, then they stretch, break up and multiply to become an orange box containing a large, black stylized “H-B” cutout. Then the box grows to become an orange background, the black H-B zooms out, disappears, and then it cuts to light blue words reading “a Hanna-Barbera Production” with the “a” in a black box. Finally, a yellow stylized “H-B” (using the same style as the black one) slowly fades in.

Later Variant: There’s another version from 1968 featuring nearly the same starting animation, with the rectangles moving the directions they’re supposed to extend instead of stretching before they actually do, but when the black zooming “H-B” disappears, it cuts to a red “H-B” with the text already on it, with the small “a” box being dark blue and the letter in yellow. It features a byline reading “a division of Taft Broadcasting Company” next to a small Taft logo in dark blue text on the bottom.

FX/SFX: All the animation in the logos.

Cheesy Factor: Well, the logo seems pretty advanced for 1966. However, Hanna-Barbera has been known for producing cartoons with cheap limited animation, and this includes their logos. Another cheesy thing I can find is that during the rectangle animation on the 1968 version, when it’s nearly finished, it merely cuts to the finished “H-B”.

Music/Sounds: It features four chime-like notes and then three brass-band notes mixed with three chimes. There were two variations of the jingle for each version.

Availability: Rare; the mid-'60s version is still kept on it’s only use, the 1966 NBC live-action/animated special Jack and the Beanstalk, whenever someone decides to show it. The 1968 version is only seen on the live-action/animated TV series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Scare Factor: Medium to high; the sudden fast-paced animation, blocky abstract design, and fanfare could get to some.

3rd Logo
(1968-1974/2002- )

Nicknames: "The H-B Box II", "The Zooming H-B," "(Zooming-In) H-B Box"

Logo: On a black background, a large, stylized orange “H-B” begins to zoom right up at the viewer. When it nearly engulfs the screen, the background suddenly becomes a shade of orange. On top of the “H-B”, the words “a”, “Hanna-Barbera”, and “Production” all appear.

Trivia: H-B used two logos using the box design during this period.

Variants:

For a short period, Taft’s corporate logo, alongside a byline reading “A division of Taft Broadcasting Company”, appear. This appears to coincide with the logo being used “standalone”, with its own music. Box logos that are appended to the ends of shows and have the show’s music playing usually do not have the byline. However, there are some exceptions, such as The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't, which featured the logo attached to the end of the credits with the end of the show's theme playing under it, but features a Taft logo and byline; and Yogi's Ark Lark, which features the "standalone" variant of the logo (with its own music), but no Taft logo or byline.
Zooming H-B Reborn: In 2002, starting with the release of Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire, the Scooby All-Stars logo was phased out and replaced with a recreation of "The Zooming H-B". The H-B now zooms in much more smoothly before cutting to the finished logo. This can now be seen on any post-2002 direct-to-video Scooby release, although they are produced at Warner Bros. Cartoons (having absorbed H-B by this period).

FX/SFX: The “zooming” H-B.

Cheesy Factor: ....has very choppy animation, and a sudden “jolt” from the black background to the orange background.

Music/Sounds: A whimsical flute/xylophone jingle written by Ted Nichols, used only when the logo wasn’t attached to the end of the show and had the show’s end credits music playing over it. A little jarring, and a bit scary. You can hear this at the end of the Dastardly & Muttley, Penelope Pitstop, and Josie and the Pussycats closing title tracks on the European H-B music CD “Tunes from the Toons: The Best of Hanna-Barbera".

Availability: Fairly common. You can still see the stand-alone variant on most episodes of Wacky Races on Boomerang (it is plastered on the DVD release) and the no-byline version on The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Super Friends, and most episodes of The New Scooby Movies on Boomerang (quite a few 1973 episodes edit out this logo for some reason). The stand-alone variant was also originally seen on The Harlem Globetrotters 1970 animated series and the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (the latter is available on DVD). Also seen at the end of the original 1973 version of Charlotte's Web.

Scare Factor: Medium to high for those who aren't used to seeing it; the choppy animation and sometimes scary music that shows used contributes to this. The regular jingle wasn’t that tame either.

4th Logo
(1969-1971)

Nicknames: "The H-B Box III", "Multiplying Rectangles"

Logo: A rare variant of 3rd logo. Small red rectangles on the sides of the screen come up, with the outer two going down, and the one in the center going up, multiply until they create a box with a black stylized “H-B” cutout. The box zooms in and becomes a red background, and the “H-B” then fades in as a blue color, then “A Hanna-Barbera Production” and the Taft byline/logo fade in. The “A” in the H-B text is on top of a red rectangle in the middle of the “H-B” outline.

FX/SFX: The “multiplying rectangles”.

Cheesy Factor: Still rough but a bit smoother and less in-your-face than the 3rd logo. The blue BG makes the text hard to read, though. Also, the rectangle animation simply cuts crudely to the finished “H-B” as the background zooms in.

Music/Sounds: Same as 3rd logo.

Availability: Fairly common; this logo was available on scattered H-B shows as well as the original first season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?. Prior to 2004 this logo was nearly impossible to find, mainly due to chronic plastering. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? suffered this as well, first with a blacked out 1979-era swirling star logo, then with the 1994 “action” variant of the “All-Stars” logo. (Why action? We don't know). This logo can be found on a few Hanna-Barbera DVD box sets, most notably Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons, which means the logo is now more common than it was six years ago. This is also spotted on Boomerang airings of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, with the current WB Television logo following it. It was also sighted on a recent Cartoon Network and Boomerang rerun of the Scooby-Doo episode "Go Away Ghost Ship," though time-compressed.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; better animation, but still a little rough.

5th Logo
(1974-1979)

Nickname: "Rainbow H-B"

Logo: We start on a pattern of five columns, each filled with the words “HANNA-BARBERA”. The words are colored so that they form a rainbow pattern. Suddenly, the words start disappearing, from the top starting on column 1, and from the bottom starting with the last column. The words disappear until one last “HANNA-BARBERA” is left. That enlarges and “morphs” into a skewed, stylized H-B, filled with a rolling rainbow pattern with numerous “HANNA-BARBERA”s in it. Below, the words “HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS, INC.” appear.

Note/Byline: In 1978, the logo does not enlarge. In this version, a Taft Broadcasting byline, sans logo this time, appears. Some post-1988 prints of H-B shows from this particular period have the Taft byline blacked out.

Trivia: This logo is used on backgrounds on end title cartoons such as: The Scooby Doo Show and Dynomutt.

Variants:

A rare variant has been seen on only a couple of TV movies of the era. It was a still shot with more solid colors (yellow, orange, red, green, blue) and segmented lines running inside the design. Also, the byline is still intact. It is mainly nicknamed as "Solid Rainbow H-B".
An extremely rare variant that was presumably seen at the beginning of programs features the "H-B" more towards the top of the screen and a large "77" in the same style underneath. There are no "HANNA-BARBERA"s in either figure. This was presumably only seen on the year 1977. This variant was animated by Dolphin Productions, a New York-based company that incorporated the first computer-generated effects in TV logos and advertisements. The music playing underneath is the theme to the 1975 New Tom & Jerry and Grape Ape Show. It is nicknamed "H-B '77".

FX/SFX: The Scanimate “rainbow” effects used in both the columns and actual logo; the words being “wiped” away.

Cheesy Factor: Better, but the “morphing” effect is cheesy and awkward. The “H-B” looks somewhat ugly, and the morphing effect… well, freeze-frame the logo and you’ll see how ungainly it looks. None for the Solid Rainbow H-B, but the H-B '77 has terrible color schemes and is incredibly ugly to look at.

Music/Sounds: Usually just the end theme of the show. None for the TV movie variant.

Music/Sound Variants: Some repeats would have the 1968-1974 theme, which seems to be synchronized perfectly with the logo. On the DVD print of Scooby Goes Hollywood, it played the 1979 "Swirling Star" logo theme. This was most likely because since the special was from December 1979, it most likely was used to plaster the Swirling Star logo.

Availability: Common; currently seen on Hong Kong Phooey, The Super Friends Hour, Clue Club, Jabberjaw, and Challenge of the Super Friends on Boomerang. It is also available on DVD, such as The Scooby Doo Show. It's also sometimes kept intact on Boomerang reruns of The Scooby Doo Show, but it's sometimes plastered over with the following logo with that show's end theme playing over it.

Scare Factor: Low; the design does seem a bit ominous.

6th Logo
(September 1979-1986/1990)

Nicknames: "Swirling Star", "Twisting Star", "Taft Swirling Star", "Rainbow Twist", "The Rainbow TWIIIST!!!"

Logo: On a black background, a white star swirls down from the top, leaving behind a rainbow trail. It then settles into the center of the screen as it twirls, occasionally shrinking and twisting, forming a circular trail. It then twists into the middle of the circle and comes to a stop. The words “Hanna-Barbera Productions” appear below.

Trivia: Basically, this is the Taft swirling star as seen on the Taft International Pictures logo, only in gold color.

Bylines:

1979-1981: “A TAFT BROADCASTING COMPANY” (in a white font)
1981-1986: “A DIVISION OF THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY”
In 1982, the 1981 byline was altered/amended with "A Division of" over "THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY".
In 1983, the 1981 byline appears in a large yellow font, and the logo appears smaller in this version.
Post-1988 prints of H-B shows from this era often have the Taft byline blacked out.

Variants:

In the logo's resurrection in 1990, a special version of this was used at the end of Jetsons: The Movie. This features the same animation, but “Hanna-Barbera” is written in the familiar cursive “script” font, first introduced in 1987. This variant also features a Great American byline, and is the only H-B logo to do so. This variant features a majestic version of the "Meet George Jetson" theme, instead of the logo's regular music.
In 1981, the colors on the trail were given a more vivid appearance.
Beginning with The Smurfs in 1981, Hanna-Barbera created an opening logo to use at the beginning of some of their shows. It’s the same as the closing logo but it fades in during the middle of the animation. The text is changed, “Hanna-Barbera” is larger, and a small yellow “PRESENTS” is shown below. Music for this was a sweeping chime sound, though 1980s Jetsons episodes feature a rendition of the Jetsons' doorbell (the “Meet George Jetson” piece of the theme rendered in chimes). This opening variant (the version with the regular music) can still be found at the beginning of every episode of The Smurfs.
There is a rare variant of this logo seen on some cartoons in which the trail is dark red and the byline is nearly invisible. This is likely due to film deterioration, which is quite unusual at this time (compared to the Rankin-Bass logo from 1977). This was used only in the early 1980's and is nicknamed "The Red Swirling Star".
There is also an extremely rare opening variant from 1979 in which there is a large "A Hanna-Barbera Production" byline and the logo is tiny in size. A still version of this logo appears at the end of the 1982 Hanna-Barbera feature film Heidi's Song.

FX/SFX: The star and residue trail.

Music/Sounds: Best described as “futuristic synthesized music". We start out with ascending and descending chimes mixed with a "whoosh" sound with each revolution of the star. When the star stops, the entire thing culminates in a gentle synth chord as the chimes finished in the background. This was written by Hoyt Curtin.

Music/Sound Variant: Some shows have appeared with the first variant with a blacked-out byline, but with the music from Logo 3. This was chiefly used to update the logo on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You but has spread to other shows as well, including post-1988 reruns of Casper's First Christmas and was also spotted on an episode of Josie and the Pussycats. This variant was sort of common but became rare when Turner updated the prints on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You in 1998, and tacked on the 1994 "All-Stars Action" logo. On old Family Channel and/or some reruns of 1979-81 episodes of The All-New Popeye Hour, this logo and the music on it was played in sped-up mode.

Availability: Common in its “unaltered” form, though many prints still have the logo's Taft bylines blacked out or bylineless. Currently seen on The Smurfs, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, season one of The Snorks, The Yogi Bear Show, Josie and the Pussycats, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, most 1982 episodes of Richie Rich, season two of Top Cat, and the 1984-1985 season of The Jetsons all on Boomerang. Very interestingly, this logo (w/ Taft byline) appears right after the "Zooming H-B" on the DVD releases of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, and The Flintstones Comedy Show. The H-B Presents logo with the "Meet George Jetson" chimes is extremely rare and so far it has been spotted on The Jetsons episode A Jetson Christmas Carol. There are also some prints with this logo (with b/o byline) actually plastering the next logo. The film deteriorated and "A Hanna-Barbera Production" variants are extremely rare as well. On The Scooby-Doo Show episode Jeepers! It's the Jaguaro!, it has the 1981 logo version of the Swirling Star plastering the 1974 H-B logo.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; the in-your-face animation, combined with the music can scare some, but this logo is still a favorite of many and is very popular.

7th Logo
(1986-1992/1998-2002)

Nicknames: “CGI Swirling Star”, "Shining Star"

Logo: An updated version of logo 6, but now done in CGI. The trail is now metallic, and the star now realistically twists and turns and has a nice shine effect. The text and byline are in a different font and are slightly smaller.

Trivia: Several years ago (around 1998-early 2001), this logo was strangely seen at the end of an episode of Johnny Bravo, although this show was supposed to use the Character Portrait Logo. This logo was the 1988-1992 bylineless version. It might have been an editing mistake.

Bylines:

1986-1988: "A DIVISION OF THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"
1988-1992: (Bylineless)
1998-2001: "A Time Warner Company"
2001-2002: "An AOL Time Warner Company"

Variants:

The 1988-1992 version often has the logo slightly enlarged.
A still variant was seen on early episodes of Fish Police with all names and bylines completely blacked out and replaced with "HANNA-BARBERA, INC." in a generic font.
When The Powerpuff Girls premiered in late 1998, the trend for most H-B/Cartoon Network shows was to get a simple “character portrait” logo. Bucking the trend, PPG used an updated version of this logo. All names and bylines are completely blacked out, and instead the words “HANNA-BARBERA CARTOONS” and the byline "A Time Warner Company" (changed to "An AOL Time Warner Company" in 2001) are used. This lasted until 2002; post-movie episodes of PPG featured a custom version of the current Cartoon Network Studios logo. This variant also appeared at the end of the Dexter's Laboratory 1999 special, Ego Trip.

FX/SFX: Nice CGI, a good achievement for its time, and brighter colors, but…

Cheesy Factor: ...doesn’t work as well as its predecessor for some reason. The path has been changed to look “looser” and it simply doesn’t look as visually appealing as its predecessor.

Music/Sounds: Same as the previous logo, or the show's closing theme. The still variant has the ends of the show's theme playing over it.

Availability: Common; currently seen on Pound Puppies, the first four seasons of The Powerpuff Girls , season two of The Snorks, and several 1981, 1982, and post-1986 episodes of The Smurfs on Boomerang. It was also seen on A Pup Named Scooby Doo on Cartoon Network (the logo is also preserved on DVD releases of the show). Can be spotted at the end of the three Scooby-Doo TV-movies: Boo Brothers (1987), Ghoul School (1988), and the well-acclaimed favorite Reluctant Werewolf (1988). Also added to the ends of some 1960s shows with no logo (very common in the past, but not as drastic nowadays), and is sometimes seen at the end of shows that originally had an older H-B logo or one of the early 1990s in-credit logo variations. The 1998 version can also be seen on The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete First Season on DVD.

Scare Factor: Same as the previous logo, but it is not as popular as the previous.

8th Logo
(1988-1992)

Logo: Basically, a black and white version of Logo 6 next to the cursive “Hanna-Barbera” logo. This is superimposed over the credits, like the earliest H-B logos.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Near extinction. On late '80s-era Smurfs episodes as well season two of Tom and Jerry Kids (as a dual credit with Turner Broadcasting, who would ironically end up owning them in 1991). The Tom and Jerry Kids version is more widely available.

Scare Factor: None.

9th Logo
(1990-1991)

Nickname: "Happy Birthday Fred!"

Logo: Against a stone-like background, Fred Flintstone, in a "caveman tuxedo", is tap-dancing behind a red baseball diamond-like shape and next to a box with the words “THE FIRST 30 YEARS” inside it. Above that in an arc is a sign reading “THE FLINTSTONES” with "THE" in a small black triangle above the arc. Below is the Hanna-Barbera script logo in yellow.

Trivia: This logo was created in celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Flintstones' premiere back in 1960.

Variant: Some versions use a blue BG, or a BG of animated TV static. A still with the blue BG and Fred already in his last position was spotted on Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventures.

FX/SFX: Fred tap-dancing, which is typical H-B animation of the time.

Music/Sounds: The ending of the show’s theme.

Availability: Near extinction; it was last seen on the first season of Tom & Jerry Kids on Boomerang. Another show that carried this logo was Yo Yogi!

Scare Factor: None.

10th Logo
(1991-1993)

Logo: In-credit like the 8th logo. We see the words “H-B Production Co.” This could be in any font; in many examples it appears in the H-B script font or in a different script font (such as Tom and Jerry Kids), but some shows have it in a more generic font. The Addams Family’s first season has a curious hybrid; the script “Hanna-Barbera” logo amid cobwebs, and “H-B PRODUCTION CO.” below it. On later episodes of Fish Police, we only see the Hanna-Barbera script logo with "Hanna-Barbera, Inc." underneath in a generic font, with no mention of "H-B Production Co."

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show, or none.

Availability: Near extinction; the variants for Addams Family and season three of Tom and Jerry Kids still have this logo, but Dark Water has its plastered over by the 1988 CGI Swirling Star. Rare for the made-for-TV Flintstones movie, I Yabba-Dabba-Do! on Boomerang.

Scare Factor: None.

11th Logo
(1993-1994)

Nickname: “All-Star Prototype”

Logo: On a colored background, we see a partial picture of a Hanna-Barbera star inside a geometric shape. Somewhere inside that logo is the “Hanna-Barbera” script logo.

Custom Variants: This was customized for each show produced by H-B during this era, and is available on only that specified show:

Two Stupid Dogs: Big Dog and Little Dog are laughing inside a rotated pink rectangle. A yellow “Hanna-Barbera” is along the top. The background is white. Another variant on this show was in a vertacal red rectangle, and the text "PRESENTS" is seen on the bottom.
Jonny Quest/The New Adventures of Captain Planet: A headshot of Jonny Quest in a vertical magenta rectangle; a green “Hanna-Barbera”, on an angle, is somewhere near the top. The background is turquoise. It was formerly used on Jonny Quest reruns, but it's currently seen on the fourth season of The New Adventures of Captain Planet (which was previously produced by DiC Enterprises). The background is green.
Swat Kats: A grinning picture of one of the Kats inside an light blue oval (T-Bone) or verical rectangle (Razor). A yellow “Hanna-Barbera” is seen, slanted and near the top. The background is a gradient blue.
The Addams Family: A headshot of Uncle Fester in a vertical light green rectangle with a blue "Hanna-Barbera" turned 90-degrees clockwise on the right. This is on a pink-purple background.
The Halloween Tree: A headshot of Mr. Moundshroud in an orange oval with a yellow "Hanna-Barbera" near the bottom in the oval. The background is a gradient blue.
Santa Fred: A headshot of Fred, in Santa hat and outfit, inside a blue rectangle. The background inside the shape is snow; the only shape background that is not a solid color. A yellow “Hanna-Barbera”, slanted down, is near the top. The background is green.
Droopy, Master Detective: A headshot of Droopy inside a solid blue rectangle all on a black with a gradient shade of purple background.
Yogi Bear: A headshot of a grinning Yogi inside a pink rectangle. A gold "Hanna-Barbera" is on the side. This is on a solid blue background. It was formerly seen on classic Yogi Bear reruns, but currently on the two TV movies, Yogi and The Easter Bear, and Scooby Doo in Arabian Nights.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: A sound effect from the company’s extensive library of sound effects (which ironically, Hanna-Barbera was beginning to stop using around this time). It’s different for each logo. Sometimes the opening and closing themes of the show plays over the logo instead.

Music/Sound Variant: The "Comedy" sound effect montage from the 13th logo is heard over this logo at the end of the notorious Scooby Doo in Arabian Nights.

Availability: Uncommon; usually seen intact on these shows. Interestingly, at the end of current prints of The Town that Santa Forgot, the Santa Fred logo shows up, and after it fades out, the “Comedy All-Stars” logo appears. Also seen on The New Adventures of Captain Planet, Two Stupid Dogs, and S1 of Swat Kats on Boomerang.

Scare Factor: None to low; the sound may get to some.

12th Logo
(1993-1995)

Nickname: “Muttley Opener”

Logo: On a black background, we see an orange oval with "H-B PRODUCTION CO." below it in small white letter. Suddenly, Muttley from Wacky Races comes up in the oval and does his trademark snicker as the "Hanna-Barbera" script logo "writes" itself onscreen in gold letters. This was an opening logo seen before certain H-B programs.

FX/SFX: The animation of Muttley, the "writing" of the H-B text.

Cheesy Factor: Muttley's animation isn't very detailed.

Music/Sounds: We hear Muttley's famous laugh, and as the Hanna-Barbera script logo is appearing, we hear a small clarinet piece.

Availability: This was only discovered by us a few years ago; it was seen on the abysmal 1994 TV special Scooby Doo in Arabian Nights.

Scare Factor: Low; the music, laughter, and black background may get to some.

13th Logo
(1994-1999)

Nicknames: “All-Stars”, "H-B Stars"

Logo: On a blurry white background with several colorful abstract shapes flying about, we see a clear square/oval that provides a “clear” view of the flying shapes; the square/oval has the Hanna-Barbera Script logo embossed in it at the top. Suddenly, we see some of Hanna-Barbera’s most famous stars running through the logo, as the square/oval begins to rotate. At the end, one of the stars ends up coming towards the logo, ending in a very extreme close-up of the star. A very small Turner byline (with Turner's own logo) appears in the lower right.

Variants: There were two similar but very distinct versions of this logo produced; one for Hanna-Barbera comedy shows, one for Hanna-Barbera action shows. The stars, “music”, and logo shape differed depending on the logo. Here are the stars for each version of the logo, in the order that they appear:

Comedy: Hanna-Barbera’s logo is yellow and in a rectangle:

Fred Flintstone (as if running or slipping or something)
Yogi Bear (grinning)
Huckleberry Hound
Dino
George Jetson (with a very classic “what?” expression)
Elroy Jetson (flying in a pod; the same animation seen in the famous “Jetsons” open)
Barney Rubble (very hidden, you have to look close to find him)
El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw’s Zorro-esque alter-ego)
Scooby-Doo (with a weird “craning neck” animation)
Fred (zooms towards the logo; extreme close-up)

Action: H-B logo is bluish and in an oval:

Bandit (Jonny Quest’s dog)
Atom Ant
Jonny Quest (in his trademark black shirt)
Dr. Benton Quest (Johnny’s dad)
The Thing (yes, of the Fantastic Four, and H-B did a series of the Fantastic Four in 1967, even though H-B doesn’t even own the characters!)
Zandor (firing an arrow)
Space Ghost
Birdman
Zok, the Laser Dragon creature from The Herculoids
Jonny Quest with kung-fu like outfit (another zoom; like he’s kicking into the camera)

A still variant of the "Comedy" logo was also shown on Dumb and Dumber cartoon, with a small "In association with" text; the New Line Television logo would follow.
Later episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest had this logo bylineless.

FX/SFX: Nifty combination of 2D animation (the characters) with cool 3D elements (the H-B shape).

Music/Sounds: Like the last logo, classic H-B sound effects, but there is more than one used during the logo, and they are arranged to create a neat “tune”. The music differs depending on the logo:

Comedy starts off with the weird horn sound effect from The Flintstones and The Jetsons, as we hear the sound usually heard as an H-B character starts to run away playing underneath. Then we hear a "boing" sound, several comical "fighting" sound effects, and finally the "kabong" sound of Quick Draw McGraw's guitar being broken over someone's head.
Action features a '60s bass riff playing throughout. First we hear an animal screech, a jet flying, an elephant trumpeting, and finally a gong.

Music/Sound Variants:

The logo has occasionally turned up with the sound FX from its opposite variation. Proof of the "Comedy" variation using the audio from the Action logo has not been confirmed yet, but most TV prints of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Episode 7: Never Ape an Ape Man have the Action variant appearing with the audio from the Comedy version, most likely due to an editing mistake.
There is a low toned variant that appeared on the Top Cat episode The $1,000,000 Derby and The Flintstones episodes Bamm-Bamm and The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes.
On a few shows, the closing theme was used.

Availability: Common due to the chief means of plastering, though not as bad as you might think; typically on “new” prints of the most popular shows, mostly '60s shows that had an in-credit logo and SG logo/text. In MOST cases, they match the right logo with the right show; the exception are the mid-90's prints of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? which replace the H-B box and swirling star with the Action All-Stars logo. The action all-stars variant also appeared on The Scooby Doo Show on the 1978 episode A Menace in Venace by plastering the 1974 H-B logo on Boomerang. The comedy variant was also seen at the end of most episodes of The What-a-Cartoon Show (later rebranded as The Cartoon Cartoon Show).

Scare Factor: Depending on the variant:

Comedy: None to low; the weird horn effect during the comedy logo might get to you, but it’s neat to see all the characters.
Action: Low to medium; the music combined with the creepy sound effects can scare more than a few.
None with the closing theme.

14th Logo
(1996-2001)

Nickname: “H-B/CN All-Stars”

Logo: Like Logo 12, a still of an H-B star in a shape, usually an oval. The star is always the one that has been featured in the show that has just ended, so there are quite a number of variations. The background is almost always white. Below the logo, there is a Time Warner byline.

Variants:

As noted above, each Hanna-Barbera produced original series for Cartoon Network from 1996 onward starting with Cave Kids had this logo, always with the cartoon’s star, the only exception being Powerpuff Girls, which used an especially created version of the swirling star. This not only included the regular half-hour series but one-shorts, previously called What a Cartoons, that now fell under the Cartoon Cartoons banner (which are now no longer rerun on TV). Thus, there is a large number of variations.
Some of the very early logos had a different style byline. Appearing in an arc-like fashion below the logo are the words “Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. A Time Warner Company”. This was soon dropped. It was mostly used on Cow and Chicken, but also appeared on a few Dexter's Laboratory episodes. Boomerang repeats of Cow and Chicken have it.
Some H-B cartoons from this period had some animation to include Cartoon Network’s logo; the H-B logo would iris-out, and then a "shiny" version of Cartoon Network’s logo would zoom in. Additional sound effects were used for this. Again, quickly dropped, as CN was putting a specially-created network logo after Cartoon Cartoons. In some cases, there would be a quick fade-out before the CN logo would appear! This was only used during late 1997-early 1999; again, it is still intact on the Boomerang repeats of Cow and Chicken, usually with the byline variant (also appeared on at least one Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo episode).
And finally, the background logo was white except in one case; a special Scooby-Doo logo, used for at least some of the made-for-video movies produced by Warner Bros. Animation; in this case, the background was black. The same black background variation was used for Uncle Gus. There were no sound effects used. It was always followed by the Warner Bros. Animation shield logo. This was used from 1998 to 2001. Also, noteably, this was the only particular version to feature the byline "An AOL Time Warner Company" from 2001, as seen at the end of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.

List of Characters:

Dexter's Laboratory: A side profile of Dexter in a blue oval. The H-B script is purple.
Cow and Chicken: Two variants: one with Chicken at the left and Cow at the right with yellow H-B script (common on Boomerang); another has Cow holding Chicken by his neck with apricot-colored script.
Johnny Bravo: Again, two variants: one with Johnny in a purple oval with yellow H-B script; another features a close-up of Johnny in a light blue oval w/ lime green H-B script. The later one only appeared on two episodes of the second season.
I Am Weasel: I.M. Weasel on the left and I.R. Baboon giving an annoyed/suspicious look on the right inside a green oval. The H-B script is pink.
Kenny & the Chimp: Kenny on the left and Chimp on the right inside a light blue oval. The H-B script is orange.
Foe Paws: Mamma Mia smiling in between Rolo with a surprised look, and Vivian glaring, inside a green rectangle. The H-B script is blue.
King Crab: TBA
Robot Jones: Robot Jones is tilted a bit inside a light green rectangle. The H-B script is red. This was seen only on the pilot episode in 2000.
Thrill Seekers: TBA
Uncle Gus: Uncle Gus stands in a ready-to-run pose inside a yellow vertical rectangle. The H-B script is white.
Cave Kids: A headshot of Baby Pebbles Flintstone inside a sky blue oval. The H-B script is yellow.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: There was one standard sound effect montage created for this logo, ending in the H-B weird “laughing” sound effect (performed by veteran H-B voice actor Daws Butler). The extended version has a synthesized whoosh sound as the H-B oval irises out, and the sound effect of the paper carrier on The Flintstones throwing the stone newspaper onto Fred's head. In 1999, the sound effect montage was switched to a different one that also incorporated classic Looney Tunes sound effects, possibly because of the Time Warner merger. For the Scooby-Doo variant, none.

Availability: Common. This can be seen on reruns of Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2000 episodes), Cow and Chicken, and Johnny Bravo on Boomerang. I Am Weasel's variant only appeared on Cartoon Network due to the Cow & Chicken/I Am Weasel split back in 1999, but it's extinct since I Am Weasel now shows as part of Cow and Chicken once again. The Robot Jones variant is extinct since the pilot episode wasn't common to see enough when the pilot became the well-acclaimed, yet short-lived Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? in 2002. For the other variants, is unknown as this time.

Scare Factor: Minmal to low; the laugh could get to some people. None for the silent variant.
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Hanna-Barbera Today: In 2001, coinciding with the death of William Hanna, AOL Time Warner finally retired the “Hanna-Barbera” brand name and absorbed the company into Warner Bros. Animation (a.k.a. "Termite Terrace"). All former H-B original TV series for Cartoon Network now come from “Cartoon Network Studios", which became a separate facility from Hanna-Barbera in 1998. The Hanna-Barbera name was being marginalized for quite a while by this time; most classic H-B stars faded into obscurity, modern-day H-B characters now were identified as “Cartoon Network” stars, and video releases of H-B cartoons now came from Warner Home Video and, until 2004, were also accompanied by the Cartoon Network logo, until CN changed their logo, stopped airing classic H-B material, and WB began the "Hanna Barbera Golden/Classic Collection" DVD line. What CN originally did not take, Warner did, claiming Scooby-Doo as its own; its video releases now come from Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (with no CN logo in sight), and, like the direct-to-video Scooby-Doo films, produced since 1998, the newer What’s New, Scooby Doo and Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue animated shows are both produced at Warner Bros. Animation (having bought out H-B the previous year), despite the latest direct-to-video Scooby films using a recreation of the 1971 H-B logo at the end. Warner also later followed this practice for other classic H-B shows recently, claiming The Flintstones as their own, among others. Even Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles cereal wasn't immune; there is still a copyright to Hanna-Barbera Productions, but now a WB shield accompanies this. Despite all this, the H-B logo is still being preserved, on shows and on logos, even if they are newer logos that are plastered over old ones. The original company may have died, but its name will still live on.

This article is dedicated to:
WILLIAM HANNA (July 14, 1910 - March 22, 2001) and
JOSEPH BARBERA (March 24, 1911 - December 18, 2006)
Forever, your names and talent won't be forgotten.

Warner Bros. Animation

Shadeed329 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:10 CST

Logo descriptions by Jason Jones, James Fabiano, Cameron McCaffrey, and Matt Williams
Logo captures by Bob Fish, Eric S., Logofan95, JHProd, CuriousGeorge60, Shadeed A. Kelly, and V of Doom
Editions by V of Doom, Wiley207, and CuriousGeorge60
Video captures courtesy of Eric S. and cartoonbrew

1st Logo
(1964-1967)

Logo: It's mainly a generic variant of the 1955 Warner Bros. Television logo with two Looney Tunes characters standing beside the logo.

Variant: On some shows, the two LT characters don't appear.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Rare; seen on TV airings of The Porky Pig Show and The Road Runner Show.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo
(1967-1970)

Nickname: "W7"

Logo: Another generic variant of the TV logo of the era, this time for the 1967 WB-SATV logo.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Rare.

Scare Factor: None.

3rd Logo
(1972-1984)

Nicknames: "The Big (\\')"

Logo: Same as before, except the LT characters stood beside the 1972 WBTV logo with the company name on top and the byline "A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY" below.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Rare.

Scare Factor: None.

4th Logo
(1984-1990)

Nickname: "WB Shield"

Logo: Same as before, except the LT characters stood beside the 1984 WBTV logo with the company name on top and the Warner Communications byline below.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Rare.

Scare Factor: None.

5th Logo
(1988-1992)

Nickname: "WB Shield Wallpaper"

Logo: Over a wallpaper of little WB shields, we see Bugs Bunny in the spotlight, prompted on top of the company name "WARNER BROS. ANIMATION INC." in green.

FX/SFX: Bugs eating his carrot.

Music/Sounds: The sound of Bugs munching his carrot, usually played over the closing theme of the show.

Availability: Appears on various WB TV cartoon specials, often plastering over older logos used on specials from the 1970s and 1980s.

Scare Factor: None.

6th Logo
(1991-1995)

Nickname: "WB Shield"

Logo: On a cloud background, we see the standard WB shield in a small, different looking design. The banner reads "WARNER BROS. ANIMATION".

Variant: On some episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, the metallic WB shield appears, and the background is filled in navy blue without the clouds.

Bylines:

1991-1992: "A TIME WARNER COMPANY"

1992: "A TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"

On Batman: The Animated Series, It's bylineless.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Opening theme of the show. On Taz-Mania, it has the last 4 notes of the Taz-Mania ending theme.

Availability: Can be found on Batman: The Animated Series repeats on Disney XD. The byline variants can be seen on Taz-Mania on AOL's In2TV.

Scare Factor: None.

7th Logo
(1995-2002)

Nicknames: "WB Shield", "Metallic Shield"

Logo: Over a set of clouds, the WB shield appears, with the banner reading "TELEVISION ANIMATION", and at the bottom of the logo.

Bylines/Variants:

1995-2001: "A TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"
2001-2002: "An AOL Time Warner Company" (with http://www.warnerbros.com/ below the company byline)

Classic Variant: On the Looney Tunes anthology series That's Warner Bros.! (1995), the word "TELEVISION ANIMATION" (on the banner) is replaced with "CLASSIC ANIMATION" and there is no byline.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Silent or the ending of the show's theme.

Availability: Survives on season one of Static Shock on Disney XD and Pinky and the Brain DVDs. Sometimes seen on Superman: The Animated Series after either normal or compressed credits on Disney XD, but usually plastered over with the 2003 "Distributed By" variation of the 2003 logo, like on the Batman series. It also is seen on Histeria! on in2TV (AOL Video Online). As for the "Classic Animation" variant, it's extinct because it only appeared on That's Warner Bros.! (1995), which was shown only for a year (to be replaced with The Bugs and Daffy Show).

Scare Factor: None.

8th Logo
(2001-2008)

Nickname: "CGI Shield"

Logo: Same as before, except the new logo has yet another different cloud background. It has a much better defined Warner Bros. shield logo with an updated banner inscription, like that of the current motion picture version, now reading "WARNER BROS. ANIMATION" across. Below the shield is a www.warnerbros.com byline.

Variants:

An early variation from the AOL era had the banner reading "TELEVISION ANIMATION" across, and underneath was a "An AOL Time Warner Company" byline, in a new lowercase typeface, with the www.warnerbros.com byline underneath.This variation can be found on early episodes of Justice League and first season episodes of Teen Titans, among other shows.
On Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! a variant of this logo was seen with the www.warnerbros.com byline missing; just the shield on the clouds. This variant was also seen on The Batman episode: Night and the City.
Debuting around November-December 2007 was a variation with a new "A TimeWarner Company" byline on the bottom.

Apparent Editing Mistake: On one episode of Duck Dodgers (I forget which one), the end credits cut to black in the place where the logo should be. The reason for this is unknown, though it may be due to bad editing.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Usually the outro of the show's theme music, but is also seen silent on some direct-to-video movies (typically if it follows a DC Comics logo or a Hanna-Barbera logo or a dedication in the credits).

Availability: Common on various Termite Terrace-produced shows on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, including Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Loonatics: Unleashed, Xiaolin Showdown, Ozzy and Drix, Krypto the Superdog, The Batman, Legion of Super Heroes, Duck Dodgers, Baby Looney Tunes, virtually every Scooby-Doo and Tom & Jerry production by the studio since 1998 (though quite a few of them are notoriously bad) and on various direct-to-video productions from the studio, such as Bah, Humduck: A Looney Tunes Christmas. This logo can also be seen on the current but short-lived Looney Tunes cartoons produced by Larry Doyle in the 2003-2005 timeframe. This logo no longer appears on seasons 2-4 seasons of Static Shock on Disney XD. They've been replaced with either "Warner Bros. Television, An AOL Time Warner Company" or "Warner Bros. Pictures, A Time Warner Entertainment Company" on seasons 2 and 3 and "Warner Bros. Television" without the URL or byline on the final season.

Scare Factor: None.

9th Logo
(2008- )

Nickname: "CGI Shield #2"

Logo: On a red spotlight background, we see the standard WB shield much like before with Bugs (drawn in his 1940s style) on the left, munching his carrot. The shield is more computer-generated. Below the shield is "Presents" in white script or the TimeWarner byline (the former used for the intro, the latter used for the outro). On the closing variant Bugs does not appear and the TimeWarner byline appears below.

FX/SFX: Just Bugs munching his carrot. Also, the shield zooms up a bit. None for the closing variant.

Cheesy Factor: The Flash animation used for Bugs is a little tacky, also Bugs looks like different.

Music/Sounds: The opening variant plays the sped-up very end of the original 1945-1955 rendition of "Merrily we Roll Along" with Bugs munching his carrot, while the end uses the end theme of the show.

Availability: Currently seen on Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network. It also appears on Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword. Ever since Kids' WB! was renamed to The CW 4Kids! on the CW network, the number of shows produced by Termite Terrace has drastically decreased, but this logo can be expected on any future productions from the company to show up.

Scare Factor: None.

CLG Wiki Music Entertainment Section

Shadeed329 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:20:49 CST

This is the Music Entertainment Section of the CLG Wiki. All music entertainment logo descriptions will be posted here.

News Corporation ()

The Walt Disney Company (Walt Disney Records)

MGM Holdings, Inc. ()

Vivendi SA (Universal Music DVD, PolyGram Music Video, PolyDor Records, Motown Records)

Sony Corporation/Sony Music (Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music International, Arista DVD, Columbia Music Video, Epic Music Video, BMG Video, Verity, Zomba Music Video)

Warner Music Group (Warner Reprise Video, Elektra Entertainment, Rhino Home Video, Warner Music Vision, Atlantic-Vision Entertainment, WEA Video)

National Amusements, Inc. ()

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (Vestron Music Video)

The Weinstein Company, LLC ()

EMI Group (Capitol Records, Virgin Music Video, Apple Records)

Miscellaneous (Emtro Gospel, Fo Yo Soul Entertainment, Integrity Music)

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All logos described and photographed are exclusive property of their respective owners.
The use of these logos to inform complements fair use.

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Yorkshire Television

WillWill45 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:13 CST

Logo descriptions by mr3urious, Michael Bass, and Kris Starring
Logo captures by V of Doom, countdowngoofs and doddzesgameshowroom
Video captures by Wyraachur

Note: As of May 2009, ITV is set to close all its Yorkshire stations.

1st Logo
(1968-1969)

Nickname: "Early Chevron"

Logo: Against a black background, a moving white diamond pattern unfolds from the center of the screen and moves upward and off the screen, leaving behind a Y-shaped chevron and the words "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION" below it. "presents" appears below.

FX/SFX: All the animations in the logo.

Music/Sounds: A horn sounder ending in a five-note fanfare, which is based off the traditional Yorkshire folk song "On Ilkla Moor Baht'at".

Availability: Extinct on television, but this has been preserved by enthusiasts. This logo actually reappeared on ITV in June 2008 as part of Yorkshire Television's 40th Anniversary special: "40 Years of YTV."

Scare Factor: Medium, due to the fanfare.

2nd Logo
(1969-1986)

Nickname: "Chevron From Hell", "Chevron of Boredom" , "The Creepy Y"

Logo: On a black background, a smaller Y-shaped chevron appears with, in white,

YORKSHIRE

TELEVISION

Production

underneath it.

Variants:

Productions shown in black and white were shown as you see it, while color programs showed a yellow chevron and under it had "Colour Production" or "In Colour" in red. Non-local TV shows usually had the same red text reading "Outside Broadcast in Colour". From 1982 onward, the phrase was shortened to "Production" in yellow. On early episodes of Countdown, the white text below the yellow chevron read "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION PRODUCTION" and the yellow text below that read "for Channel Four."

Occasionally, it had no byline.

There is a very rare, hard to find variation where the chevron flies into an animated sequence with sparks and a movie marquee with the flashing numbers 1, 2, and 3 (the same numbers would fly toward the viewer via "explosion" effects), and the firework-chevron flies into a trash can, segueing into the 3, 2, 1 intro. This was seen with the "COLOUR PRESENTATION" byline. Only seen at the beginning of the quiz show 3, 2, 1.

Another very rare variation was used for the news program First Tuesday. Fine print appears saying "First Tuesday is copyright of Yorkshire Television.". Then the text disappears with a "wipe" effect, and the chevron turns into a blue vector version of the logo. We zoom into the top of it it, a horizontal line draws from the center, which then unfolds to a blue vector grid, which turns into a vector globe. The squares from the globe break away to reveal the title of that show.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Just the logo appearing (except for the variants, which are animated). A little bland, don't you think?

Music/Sounds: A shortened, 5-note version of the bombastic fanfare used in the previous logo. The 1982 version had a reworked, and less bombastic version of the fanfare by Chris Gunning.

Music/Sound Variant: First Tuesday used a cool electric piano version of the music. After that, a very cool electric piano tune plays (the latter tune is the theme of the show).

Availability: Appeared on era episodes of Emmerdale Farm, Countdown, 3, 2, 1, First Tuesday, and many other programs from the YTV stable.

Scare Factor: Low to high; very few people have kind memories of this logo thanks to it coming out of nowhere, and for that bombastic fanfare. Familiarity with this logo can reduce the scares. The 3, 2, 1 variant may startle viewers who have never seen it before. None to Low for the First Tuesday variant, the cool music pretty much negates the scariness of the logo.

3rd Logo
(1983)

Logo: Against a black BG, we see a series of yellow chevrons zoom out, and a green digital counter readout rapidly counts up. When the counter gets to 6,000,000, it transforms into the white italicized text "serving six million viewers", and the chevrons flash and solidify into one large chevron with the yellow text "Yorkshire Television" below.

FX/SFX: It seems to be all done with cel animation.

Music/Sounds: A series of rapid electronic beeping noises ending with the Yorkshire fanfare.

Availability: This was never used as an actual production logo. This only appeared as an ID/promo for Yorkshire Television within their respective region.

Scare Factor: Medium, due to the darkness and the beeping.

4th Logo
(1984-1989)

Logo: Over a blue/black gradient BG, we see the Yorkshire Chevron spin around 360 degrees.

Variant: Around Christmastime, this logo is seen capped with snow above a snow covered ground as flakes fall.

FX/SFX: All CGI; pretty basic, but effective. The Christmas variant, however, appears to use cel animation.

Music/Sounds: The Yorkshire fanfare, followed by a continuity announcer.

Availability: Extinct outside of tape recordings; only seen as part of YTV's continuity during the '80s in the pre-generic ITV days.

Scare Factor: None.

5th Logo
(1985-1986)

Description coming soon!

6th Logo
(1986-1989)

Nickname: "Liquid Gold"

Logo: Against a black BG in a sea of liquid gold, a revolving gold 3D chevron emerges from it. The words "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION Production" appear below.

Variants:

For programs that were not produced by YTV, the word "Production" would be omitted.
A still version was used at the end of shows.

FX/SFX: The liquid gold and the chevron, which are both CGI. This logo cost around £40,000 to make, which is nearly $80,000 in today's money!

Music/Sounds: A horn sounder that gets more and more dramatic, which ends with a different arrangement of the Yorkshire fanfare. Sometimes, the end theme of the programme will play over it.

Availability: See 2nd logo.

Scare Factor: None.

7th Logo
(1989)

Nickname: "21 Years of Yorkshire"

Logo: Over a blue/black background, we see the two golden halves of the Chevron connect and flip towards us to form the logo, which zooms out as the words "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION" appear below, followed by "21 YEARS OF ENTERTAINMENT & EXCELLENCE."

FX/SFX: CGI again, but not nearly as impressive as the Liquid Gold ID.

Music/Sounds: An extended rearrangement of the YTV fanfare.

Availability: Extinct outside of tapes. This was only used locally.

Scare Factor: Low to medium, based on how the fast-paced animation/music effects you.

8th Logo
(1989-1995)

Nickname: "ITV Generic"

See ITV for description.

9th Logo
(1995-1996)

Logo: We see several yellow rings zooming out toward the center of the screen, forming a chevron. When they clear up, we see various Yorkshire-related clips playing in the middle of the screen, all against a sky blue BG. "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION" appears below.

Variants:

During nighttime, the BG would be dark blue.

On Countdown, the text below the chevron reads as follows:

YORKSHIRE TELEVISION PRODUCTION

FOR

CHANNEL FOUR

FX/SFX: The chevron being formed, and the clips playing.

Music/Sounds: Two different epic-sounding string fanfares were used: one in the daytime, and one during the nighttime. No YTV fanfare from before to be found. :-(

Availability: Once again, this is extinct outside of tapes.

Scare Factor: None.

10th Logo
(1996-1999)

Logo: We see a gold chevron revolving around on a sky blue background. "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION" is shown below.

Variants:

The BG would be cloudy blue in the nighttime.

One variant used on Countdown is like the one for the previous logo, except it also has a copyright stamp reading, "© CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION CORPORATION [year in Roman numerals]."

The other Countdown variant has text below the yellow chevron that reads "YORKSHIRE TELEVISION STUDIOS".

FX/SFX: The chevron revolving.

Music/Sounds: A horn fanfare that increases dramatically, ending with a synthesized version of the YTV fanfare. A continuity announcement may follow.

Availability: Extinct on TV, but survives through tape trading.

Scare Factor: None.

11th Logo
(1999)

Nickname: "TV from the Chevron"

Logo: Against a BG of revolving blue chevrons split into three pieces, we see a video clip of something related to Yorkshire. Then, it fades out, and we see the chevron on the left center of the screen with a few more clips playing at its right.

FX/SFX: The revolving chevrons, the video clips.

Music/Sounds: A peaceful electronic-sounding tune that ends with a slower version of the YTV fanfare.

Availability: Same as before.

Scare Factor: None.

12th Logo
(1999-2002)

Nickname: "TV from the Heart"

See ITV for description.

13th Logo
(2003)

Logo: On a purple CGI background, we see a small purple box with a white Yorkshire chevron inside of it. Below the purple box is white text that reads "A Yorkshire Television Production". Below that, near the bottom of the screen, is smaller text that reads "GRANADA", which refers to the production company that would co-produce Countdown through 2005.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of Countdown.

Availability: Seen on 2003 Countdown episodes.

Scare Factor: None.

14th Logo
(2004-2005)

See Granada Television for a description of this logo.

CLG Wiki Rules

Midaba2004 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:04:30 CST

Rules descriptions and editions by the CLG Wiki Team

RULES BEFORE GOING ON THE CHANNEL

1.) Please log on or sign up if you want to edit! As a general rule, only Moderators and Administrators can change the Wiki's preference's and style.

2.) No attacking users. If you attack any users on the website, you will be banned automatically. This is a zero tolerance policy, and attacking a user will not be tolerated in this site. CLG Wiki is meant to be a friendly and fun place to be.

3.) You are not allowed to make articles for ANY dream logo. There is, however, a separate wiki where you can, at dreamlogos.wetpaint.com.

4.) Don't hack/steal passwords from other accounts. If you are hacked please contact an Administrator.

5.) No deleting any author information. If you've created a page or put any images ( known as "captures"), put your name at the top (unless you are too young). If you put a video from YouTube you must put the YouTube's user name on the top, not your user name. Also, if you copy info from an article to another, you should copy the author information too.

6.) No uploading any non-logo related pictures to the photo gallery. These include paper, print or spoof logos as description, getting immediately rejected. Only real on-screen (animated and still) logos and in-credit texts will be accepted.

7.) No vandalism. If you vandalize anything on this site, you're going to get it.
To the writers:

1st offense: Warning.
2nd offense: Final warning and demoted to a "Registered User".
3rd offense: Banned from the site!

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3rd offense: Banned from the site!

8.) No stealing other user's captures and claiming them as your own by adding them in your personal album!! If you're caught, you're automatically BANNED!!! This includes watermarked photos, such as those uploaded by Eric S. (a.k.a. Newave) with watermarks reading "CPvGc80 Video Network" or "CPvGc80 Stock Network" (He will always upload captures of his videos without watermarks as images on this wiki) from certain websites like "Retrojunk" or "Retrostatic" (which always adds watermarks to their videos), or from unregistered video converter/capture software such as "Hypercam", "Total Video Converter", or "Moyea", among others. If you cannot add a photo for a certain logo without adding one that is not watermarked, then add a "To-Do" for the person who watermarked the photo to add a capture of the logo without any watermark.

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Paramount Pictures

wolfie14 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:10:05 CST

Logo descriptions by Jason Jones, Matt Williams, and Argus Sventon
Logo captures by Eric S and others.
Editions by Eric S., V of Doom, Bob Fish, and others
Video captures courtesy of simblos, TriStarPictures82 , MrFb09, joecool85, roygerdodger, idolejeunes, WizardDuck, DJ_Arkangel, TinderboxPictures, bluebrotherx7, GarfieldFan2007 and Eric S.

Famous Players Film Company

Background: This company was founded originally in 1912 by the Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons (film theaters that cost 5 cents admission), saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "famous players in famous plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, later known as Samuel Goldwyn. The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with no virtually film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable location site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first film, called The Squaw Man.
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Paramount Pictures Corporation

Background: Beginning in 1914, the former company was renamed Paramount Pictures Corporation, being the oldest running movie studio in Hollywood, beating Universal Studios by a month. Currently, the company is owned by media conglomerate Viacom, a subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc.

1st Logo
(1914-1926?)

Nicknames: "The Three Mountains In the Credits", ''Three Paramountains''

Logo: We see one of the following bylines at the top of the screen:

"ADOLPH ZUKOR PRESENTS" (films produced on the East Coast)

"JESSE L. LASKY PRESENTS" (films produced on the West Coast)

"ADOLPH ZUKOR AND JESSE L. LASKY PRESENT" (films produced on both coasts)

Below this, we see the title of the film and a little more info. Somewhere on the screen, we see a snowcapped mountain poking out of a cloud at the bottom. The mountain is surrounded by a ring of stars. We see text overlapping the mountain reading:

A
Paramount
Picture

At the bottom of the screen is a box. On either side of the box, there are two Paramount pseudo-logos. Each has a ring of stars inside a ring. On the pseudo-logo on the right, we see the words "Paramount Pictures". On the pseudo-logo on the left, we see some writing. I theorize that this logo may actually be "Famous Players", so I may be wrong. At the top of the box, we see "COPYRIGHT (year "XXXX"). Inside the box, we see the words "FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION" in a large font. Below this, in a slightly smaller font, we see the words "ADOLPH ZUKOR PRESIDENT". Below Zukor's name, we see the words "NEW YORK CITY". Below the box, we see, in a large font, "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED".

Closing Title: We see the words "THE END" on the screen. At the top of the screen is the title of the movie. Below "THE END", we see a snowcapped mountain poking out of a cloud at the bottom. The mountain is surrounded by a ring of stars. We see text overlapping the mountain reading "A Paramount Picture".

FX/SFX: None. It was actually a big painting in a room, that was filmed by a cameraman.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Probably still around on Paramount silent movies. The logo was actually part of the opening credits, and should be still on there, since Paramount has always owned their silents. A picture showing the filming of this logo, can be found on Page 71 of "A Pictorial History of the Western Film".

Scare Factor: Minimal.

2nd Logo
(1926?-1952)

Nicknames: "Majestic Mountain", "Dark Mountain", "Paramountain", "Mount Everest"

Logo: We see a snow-capped mountain against a dark sky. There are clouds that look like smoke over the mountain, sometimes foggy, though. Encircling the mountain are 24 white stars, accompanied by this text in a majestic script font overlapping the mountain, reading:

A
Paramount
Picture

At the end of the movie, we see "The End", in script, overlapping the company name.

Variant: Though the same general design of the logo has remained the same, there have been subtle changes to it over the years, such as having brighter stars on some films or a slightly different design.

Trivia: Legend says the mountain was doodled by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor. Hodkinson said it reminded him of his childhood in Utah.

FX/SFX: Just the gliding clouds.

Music/Sounds: The beginning/end of a movie's theme.

Availability: Still retained on Turner Classic Movies and black & white Popeye shorts on The Popeye Show on Boomerang. Expect a recent Universal logo to preceed as they own most of the films from this era.

Scare Factor: Low to medium, due to the somewhat scary mountain drawing and clouds.

3rd Logo
(1952-1954)

Nicknames: "Majestic Mountain II'', "Twisted Mountain", "Ugly Mountain", ''Paramountain II''

Logo: The same as above, only this variation looks more marble and uneven in appearance. The sky background is a bit lighter as well.

Variant: Sometimes, the mountain appears closer up.

FX/SFX: Again; just the gliding clouds.

Cheesy Factor: The mountain looks ugly.

Music/Sounds: Usually the beginning/end of a movie's theme.

Availability: Uncommon; the beginning part is replaced with logo 6 on Shane, as this logo is kept at the end of Shane. Still seen on Paramount releases of the period on Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; the mountain looks ugly and could be an eyesore to look at.

4th Logo
(1954-1967)

Nicknames: "Majestic Mountain III", "VistaVision Mountain"

Logo: Created especially for widescreen, this logo appears more realistic and features a canyon scenery with trees around it. The sky is more distant in depth and is very contrast. Everything is pretty much the same as before here.

Variants:

There is a variation in which "A Paramount Picture" would be replaced by "A Paramount Release" on some features. At the end of the movie, the "The End" byline appears by itself, right in front of the mountain. It then fades to the company name a few moments later.
On films with VistaVision, the stars and text would fade out, and "in" would fade in. Then it fades out and a big "V" zooming in (a la the Viacom "V of Doom" logo) and "VISTA" left of the V and "ISION" right of the V appear in a wiping effect. Then, "MOTION PICTURE" appears under "VISTA" and "HIGH-FIDELITY" under "ISION" fade in.
For their first feature in VistaVision, first over the mountain would appear "Paramount (with the P written in their corporate font) proudly presents the first picture in", and then the VistaVision logo appeared, without any "MOTION PICTURE" or "HIGH FIDELITY" disclaimers, then the Paramount logo played as usual.
The logo has appeared in Spanish (Es una película Paramount), French (C'est un film Paramount), and German (Ein Paramount Film).

FX/SFX: Nothing cheesy again; just the gliding clouds.

Music/Sounds: None, although it plays through the beginning/end of the movie's theme. For films shown in VistaVision, the logo has a majestic fanfare composed by Nathan Van Cleave, except on Gunfight at the O.K. Corral where it used the movie's theme.

Availability: Again, preserved on Paramount releases of the period. The VistaVision version is mostly seen on western films. All are still retained on Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics.

Scare Factor: None.

5th Logo
(1968-1975)

Nickname: "Majestic Mountain IIII"

Logo: Much like the previous logo, but this time, only the word "Paramount" is seen on the mountain's peak, with the stars encircling the mountain. "A Gulf+Western Company" appears on the bottom.

Variants:

There is a variation that in 1974, two of the stars are clipped away. The mountain looks the same as logo 2's version, but the stars are bigger. "A Gulf+" slides in from the left and "+Western Company" from the right and they're in a different typeface. The script name also had a few variations of its own. At least two movies featured the then-current TV logo version, and the 1974 logo features the print logo variation, which remains from this day forward.
A variation on this logo, reading "A Paramount Picture" like before, was created for the first three Indiana Jones films several years after this logo ended. Also, the latest Indiana Jones film had this logo with the Viacom byline and simply reading "Paramount" instead of "A Paramount Picture".
Another version exists at the beginning of movie trailers where we see the 22 stars and then "COMING FROM Paramount" appears one by one in the center with the Gulf+Western byline appearing below. It was used until around 1977.

FX/SFX: Nothing cheesy again, except for the gliding clouds and byline sliding in.

Music/Sounds: Usually had no music, unlike some other studios at the time, although Charlotte's Web had a 13-note horn fanfare. Other than that, the movie's opening theme plays there.

Availability: This is rare, but can still be seen. Among the movies released in this era were The Godfather, Catch 22, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (with Barbara Streisand), Charlotte's Web, Paint Your Wagon, Harold and Maude, and Chinatown (with Jack Nicholson). Some current prints of The Godfather may plaster this with the 1987 Paramount logo, though. Also the 1974-75 variation can be found on The Longest Yard (1974) and Framed.

Scare Factor: None to low, but some people might get edgy about the "Split" lettering version seen on Catch 22.

6th Logo
(1975-1987)

Nicknames: "Blue Mountain", "Abstract Mountain", "'70s Mountain"

Logo: We see the same mountain with the canyon-style scenery as the last two logos. 22 white stars fade in, encircling the mountain. "Paramount" fades in on the mountain's peak. A byline fades in at the base of the mountain:

A
Gulf+Western
Company

The logo fades to a light blue mountain surrounded by a circular navy blue border on a light blue screen. The final product turns out to be Paramount's current print logo from that point onward, but as most print logos, they change over the years, beacuse in the future, the byline for this logo and the byline for this print logo, will change two times. This logo is similar to the Paramount Television ID of the period and has darker colors compared to the TV ID.

Variants:

The distance between the words and the mountain tip sometimes varies.
One variation (probaly the original) has a smaller blue circle around a smaller mountain, both kind of receded. The text for "Paramount" is smaller than usual and the text for "A Gulf+Western Company" is drastically larger, along with the stars. This rather ugly variation was seen on Looking for Mr. Goodbar, among others.
There is a version of this logo in which the background is pink instead of blue and the mountain is dark blue instead of light blue. This pink version was seen only on Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.
A variation of this logo was used as a bumper for trailers to upcoming films with the phrase "Coming From" above the logo.

FX/SFX: Fading in of the company name, bit by bit.

Cheesy Factor: Nothing cheesy; just gliding clouds and fading parts in this logo.

Music/Sounds: Often had no music, although the original version of Grease had a theme. In some cases, an orchestrated fanfare played throughout, especially on variants of this logo that were used for trailers. In other cases, it uses the opening/closing theme.

Availability: Can be found on most TV broadcasts of late '70s-mid '80s movies. Plenty of films released on DVD have this logo intact or restored, as well. This logo can be also seen on recent TV broadcasts of Meatballs, starring Bill Murray. Some earlier DVD releases such as the 1976 version of King Kong have this logo plastered with the Viacom version of the 1987 logo.

Scare Factor: Low; a lack of elements found on the TV version (the "Paramount" sliding in and the music) make this logo much less scary than its television counterpart. However, the realistic mountain fading to blue may seem a bit jarring.

7th Logo
(1987-2002)

Nicknames: "CGI Mountain", "'80s Mountain", "Majestic Mountain V", "Mountain of Monotony"

Logo: We see a model of a mountain, with a CGI lake in front of it and a light blue/yellow gradient sky with a yellow sunset behind it. The camera begins to zoom closer to the mountain, as 22 silver stars (also CGI) come from the bottom left and encircle the mountain, forming the familiar logo. The word Paramount, in its familiar script logo font and redone in a shiny silver color, fades in on the peak of the mountain. Seconds later, one of the four bylines (as seen below; depends on the year(s) seen below) fades in below the logo. (not the international version) The CGI elements were done by Apogee, Inc.; the mountain scenery is a model and the sky with the sunset are just several pictures that would change each frame of the logo.

Bylines:

1987-1989: "A Gulf+Western Company" (it fades in together with the Paramount script logo and looks the same as it did in the previous logo).
1989-1995: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline fades in in white. On the byline's first year, the byline faded in with the Paramount script logo and was goldish-yellow.
1995-2002: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (in the 1990 \/|/\CO/\/\ "Wigga-Wigga" font), with a line above the byline fades in, again, in white.
One variant, used for international releases, has no byline whatsoever. This version features the stars and the word "Paramount" already there at the beginning, with the camera starting at the back of the mountain and working it's way to the front.

Variants: While there have been some variations of the logo depending on the movie, and of course the three byline variants, there are two main logo variations of this logo:

1987: For this logo's first year, the words "75th Anniversary" appear over the mountain, between the Paramount script logo and the Gulf + Western byline. "75th" was in silver and "Anniversary" in gold.
1999-2002: Paramount redid their logo slightly. The same basic concept is here, but is reanimated to look nicer. The stars are thicker (with golden sides), shinier, and have a nice motion blur effect, the star's reflection can now be seen in the lake in front of the mountain, and the Paramount script logo now shines. These additions are subtle, but they make the logo seem much less dated.
Strangely, the 1995-1999 version with the Viacom byline was spotted after the split-screen credits on an airing of Barnyard: The Original Party Animals on Nickelodeon on February 6, 2009. It might be considered an error on production or broadcast.

FX/SFX: The stars circling the mountain, zoom in, text fading in.

Music/Sounds: Usually silent, but occasionally has the 1975 fanfare (albeit remixed, to sound more "powerful") playing throughout the logo. An abridged version can be heard on various home video releases.

Availability: Plastered on most broadcast and basic cable telecasts of Paramount movies as well as some of Paramount's "marquee" titles that have been remastered or restored. However, most pay cable showings and video releases still have their original logos. The 1999 revision rarer, only appearing on movies which were released in theaters from 1999 to early 2002; Paramount has used the 1994 Viacom variation in all logo plasterings and TV movies such as those made for Showtime. Still easy to catch, even though the logo has not been in use for more than five years now. The 75th Anniversary logo appeared on 1987 video releases of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Crocodile Dundee, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and was plastered with the Paramount Communications logo for many years. Paramount nicely unplastered the logo off, and the 75th Anniversary variation appears on the DVD releases of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and The Untouchables. This logo usually plasters the 1968 Paramount logo on The Godfather, and it may also plaster the Ladd Company logo without byline on A Very Brady Sequel.

Scare Factor: None.

8th Logo
(2002- )

Nicknames: "2000s Mountain", "Ultra Majestic Mountain", "CGI Mountain II", "Majestic Mountain VI"

Logo: We see a majestic shot of a large amount of clouds, high over the earth, in space. In the distance, comet-like objects descend from the sky and as they zoom towards us, we see that they are the trademark Paramount stars, shooting towards us. The shot appears to "shimmer" a bit and then we see that we've been watching a reflection all along; the stars have been reflected through the familiar "Paramount" script. It too descends through the clouds, until we see a familiar mountain coming into view, now on a majestic sunrise-like background and surrounded by clouds. The stars zoom in below the script logo, which is now a silver color with a golden border, twisting and encircling the mountain. The script logo assumes its position above the mountain peak as the logo is completely formed. The Viacom byline, still in the Wigga-Wagga font, fades in under the logo with a line in the same color of the byline above it to seperate the logo and the byline.

Variants:

2002: During its first year of use, the words "90TH ANNIVERSARY" in gold fades in with the Viacom byline and the line and the gold "90TH ANNIVERSARY" text is sandwiched between the peak of the mountain
A still picture of the logo was spotted on Sleuth.
2006- : When distributing films from another company, the text "DISTRIBUTED BY" in white, fades in above the logo with the Viacom byline and the line. Usualy seen at the end of DreamWorks films from 2006-Late 2008/Early 2009-Present.
Late 2005- : The logo is a bit crystal clearer than usual, the sunset in the background is more brighter and colorful than usual and the clouds reflect the sunsets' light better than usual. Look at the "DISTRIBUTED BY" variant picture above and think the "DISTRIBUTED BY" text isn't there. That is what this variant looks like.

FX/SFX: INCREDIBLE CGI; very reminiscent of the more majestic and stylized 1940s and '50s mountains.

Music/Sounds: Silent for the most part, like the last logo, although on Mean Girls, a reocastrated vesion of the 1987 fanfare to make it even more powerful than last time plays. On The Longest Yard, an unknown fanfare plays. On movies by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount, we can hear (if you listen hard enough) a soft sounded wind sound while the stars shoot towards us. Sometimes, starting in 2009, we can hear an extended version of the theme used in Mean Girls.

Availability: Seen on all current Paramount releases since 2002. The 90th Anniversary variation sometimes plasteres old logos on 2002 video releases. On the Blue's Clues episode, Meet Joe, we see the previous logo play with the Viacom byline and after that, the 90th Anniversary variant of this logo plays. Oddly, this has been spotted on Hogan's Heroes reruns on Universal HD.

Scare Factor: None; the animation is mind-blowing, and it is a suitable successor to Paramount's original CGI mountain.

National Instructional Television/Agency for Instructional Television (Technology)

WillWill45 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:55:36 CST

Logo descriptions by Reactor37654 Cody E. and Nathan B.
Logo captures by Cody E. and mr3urious

Background: 1962 saw the formation of the National Instructional Television Library, an agency funded by the U.S. Office of Education and operated by National Educational Television in New York City. NIT was founded as a way to distribute instructional television programming and associated materials to educational television studios throughout the U.S. In 1965, NIT would part ways with NET and relocate to its present home in Bloomington, Indiana, where it became the National Center for School and College Television. The NCSCT was operated by the Indiana University foundation. In 1968, the service was renamed the National Instructional Television Center. NIT would become an independent, self-supporting, non-profit organization in 1970, and would begin supplying educational programming to the newly-formed PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, which had risen from the ashes of NIT's former operator, NET. On April 11, 1973, NIT would be incorporated into the Agency for Instructional Television. It would slightly change it's name to the Agency for Instructional Technology on July 1, 1984, to reflect other uses to electronically distribute instructional material, such as via videocassette and computer.

1st Logo
(1968-1973)

Nickname: "NIT"

Logo: On a black background, a stylized "N" (which consists of a backwards "C" like shape, an "I", and a slanted "T") slowly zooms out from the center of the screen as an announcer says, "The following is from NIT, National Instructional Television.". Shown before most PBS educational programming in the 1970s; indeed, there are many similarities between this and the original 1970 PBS ID.

Variant: At the beginning of Inside Out, the announcer says, "The following is from a National Instructional Television series. The series and related materials were developed and supported by 32 educational agencies with additional support from Exxon Corporation.". The zooming is also much slower.

FX/SFX: The zooming out.

Cheesy Factor: Much like the original PBS ident, there is no animation of any kind; just a design, a background, and a narrator. Also, the logo itself looks like construction paper.

Music/Sounds: None; just the announcer.

Availability: Seen on VHS/DVD copies of Self Incorporated, Inside Out, and Ripples sold on AIT's website (http://ait.net).

Scare Factor: Minimal; the narrator might make a few people nervous. The sudden appearance of the strangely-designed NIT logo (considering it takes up the entire width of the screen when it first appears) might catch some off-guard as well.

2nd Logo
(1973-1979)

Nickname: "Multicolored Abstract AIT"

Logo: On a black background, a stylized, multicolored "AT" (which consists of an "A" and a "T" connected to each other) zooms in from the center of the screen. Once it reaches the center of the screen, the words "agency for instructional television", with a copyright date above "agency", appears below. The text is written in a rounded yellow font.

FX/SFX: The zooming out.

Cheesy Factor: See above.

Music/Sounds: There is a "ding" as the copyright information appears. Other than that, it is just the show's theme as an announcer says, "Under the supervision of AIT, Agency for Instructional Television.".

Availability: Seen on programs of the period such as Self Incorporated.

Scare Factor: Low.

3rd Logo
(September 1979)

Logo: On a pale purple background, We see many spinning multicolored North Americas (minus Mexico) intersecting with each other. The North America then turns white with outlines for the states and provinces. Various states and provinces then get filled in with orange as a spinning yellow "AT" (same design as the second logo) comes from the top right of the screen. An announcer says, "The following is from a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning.". The logo then disappears via a "scratching" effect. It then cuts into the Thinkabout intro of the time. ( I guess the AIT logo is part of the Thinkabout intro, BTW.)

Variant: At the end ot "Thinkabout", the announcer says, "Thinkabout is supported by state and provincial agencies working through the Agency for Instructional Television. Together... serving education.". The "cutting to the intro" part doesn't happen, instead it does something else that is hard to describe right now.

FX/SFX: The spinning maps, the highlighting, the "AT", the "scratching"...

Cheesy Factor: ...which are typical '70s Scanimate effects. Oh, and the cut to the Thinkabout intro seems be a bit jarry.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme to the show (Thinkabout, the only show known to carry this logo, it's theme starts off with a chime scale, as the map turns white, a synth "thud" can be heard, with a piano playing throughout the logo. After the anouncer finishes his line, the chimes restart).

Availability: Can be found on old tapes of Thinkabout.

Scare Factor: Medium; the spinning maps may put off a few people.

4th Logo
(1979-1987)

Logo: On a black background. Multicolored states and provinces zoom out of the screen in rapid succesion to form the North America from the previous logo. An announcer says, "The following has been developed by state and provincial agencies in association with the Agency for Instructional Television. Together... serving education." as the logo forms. Once they all zoom in, the familiar "AT" in white zooms out from the top right of the screen, leaving a white trail. After that, the whole logo flashes and turns green. "Together... serving education" appears below the logo.

Variants:

There is a variant where a female announcer says the same thing, but says "Agency for Instructional Technology" instead, since AIT changed its name to that in 1984.
Principles of Technology uses a different announcer saying a slightly different version of the spiel, which goes as "A project of state and provincial, vocational, and technical educational agencies in association with the Agency for Instructional Technology and the Center for Occupational Research and Development. Together... serving education.". Also, the logo for CORD (a weird green C with "ORD" in between) zooms out to the bottom left shortly after the AIT logo.

FX/SFX: The states, provinces, and the "AT" zooming out, the flashing, trail, and the words appearing.

Cheesy Factor: The CORD logo in the PoT variant doesn't seem to blend in very well with the rest of the graphics.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized accordion-like tune.

Availability: Several programs from this period are still distributed by AIT (and are still being aired as part of the instructional television schedules on public TV stations in some areas); this can be considered rare. Principles of Technology is one such show.

Scare Factor: Low; this is a good logo.

5th Logo
(1987-1993)

Logo: On a black background, an outline of the usual North America zooms out to the center of the screen, leaving a blue light trail in the process which then retracts into the outline when the logo finishes zooming out. A female announcer says, "The following has been developed by state and provincial education agencies in association with the Agency for Instructional Technology. Together... programming for today's learner." as the logo forms. White outlines of the states and provinces are drawn on the map as well as an outline of Hawaii appearing below California. The states and provinces then light up in many different colors in rapid succession. A blue "AT" (a slightly different design, although it still has the same shape) appears from the top right of the screen and zooms out northeast of the North America. The "AT" "shines" while the outline of the North America dissappears. The logo fades slightly while the text, "Together... Programming for Today's Learner" zooms out from the bottom of the screen to the middle. The "AT" shines again.

FX/SFX: The zooming out, the writing of the outline, the lighting up of the states, the "AT" shining.

Cheesy Factor: It seems like a ripoff of the early '80s Roadshow Home Video logo at the beginning.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized tune with violins.

Availability: Some older AIT programs with this version of the AIT logo, such as Amigos, are still in use by some public TV stations so this may make an occasional appearance.

Scare Factor: None; the synth tune is actually calming.

6th Logo
(1993- )

Logo: Against a black background, we see a dark image of North America surrounded by a blue aura turning to face us (white outlines of the states and provinces are also shown on the map). As this happens, a bluish rectangle with rounded corners flips around, and the letters "AIT" in a white futuristic font with a line going through the center flip around and stop right on the rectangle. The map shines as the words

AGENCY FOR---------
INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGY-------

slide out from the left of the rectangle.

FX/SFX: Modern computer graphics.

Music/Sounds: A piano/synth horn fanfare with a male announcer saying "A presentation of AIT.".

Availability: Probably easiest to find, as it's the current logo and more commonly seen (Just don't expect to see it on any PBS shows; since 1993 the channel has had their own educational television programming company).

Scare Factor: Minimal; the announcer and darkness may scare some.

Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting/Maryland ITV/Maryland Public Television

Yoshidude987 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:53:34 CST

Logo descriptions by gshowguy and mr3urious
Videos and logo captures courtesy of Skyoneer2007, cruisefx, TechnerVideo, Tlogos, & JHprod

1st Logo
(1969?-1972)

TBA

2nd Logo
(1972-1976)

Nickname: "The Heptagon"

Logo: On a black background, seven blue multi-lined heptagons zoom out, then one zooms in. As one stops in the center of the screen, the words

The Maryland Center
for Public Broadcasting

appear below. The heptagon glows different colors.

FX/SFX: The heptagons zooming out; the heptagon glowing various colors.

Cheesy Factor: Very early Scanimate effects.

Music/Sounds: A French horn that plays seven notes followed by a child's voice saying "Pre-recorded in a studio through The Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting.".

Availability: Extinct on TV.

Scare Factor: Low.

3rd Logo
(1976-1980)

Nickname: "The Heptagon 2"

Logo: On a black background, a light-flare trail of a heptagon much like before, only with a different pattern, zooms and spins out to the center of the screen. When it stops, it comes into focus, and the text, arranged like this:

maryland center
for public broadcasting

appears below via a flash. The heptagon starts out blue, but then it fades to red, and finally pink.

FX/SFX: The heptagon trail zooming out...

Cheesy Factor: ...which is cheesy even by late 1970s standards.

Music/Sounds: A Moog synth jingle with an announcer saying "From the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting.".

Availability: Extremely rare. Seen on shows from this period, such as Wall $treet Week.

Scare Factor: Low; the announcer's voice may catch you off-guard.

4th Logo
(1980-1984)

Nickname: "The Ulster Logo on Steroids"

Logo: On a black background, a glass model of a rectangle with a roundish "M" inside zooms outs from the right, flipping into place. The text "maryland itv" wipes in below.

Variant: On Consumer Connection, there is an in-credit version in which the logo (in white) fades in and "MARYLAND ITV" and a copyright date slide up from below.

FX/SFX: The logo zooming out and flipping.

Music/Sounds: A mellow horn tune described as "elevator music".

Availability: Seen on many shows of this period, like W$W, MotorWeek, Consumer Connection, and (I believe) Hodgepodge Lodge.

Scare Factor: Minimal for the regular variant, and none for the in-credit variant.

5th Logo
(1984-1986)

Logo: Against a black BG with a gray border, a box displaying an abstract map of Maryland with various shades of purple with "MARYLAND" above it zooms in rapidly. Then, the map morphs into the letters "iTV" in fuschia. "State Department of Education" and "Division of Instructional Television" appear below.

FX/SFX: The zooming in of the map, the map morphing.

Cheesy Factor: The morphing is really choppy.

Music/Sounds: None, or a frenetic orchestral theme.

Availability: Extinct on TV.

Scare Factor: Low.

6th Logo
(1984-1986)

Nickname: "Green MPT"

Logo: On a teal background, we see the new (at the time) MPT logo, with MPT in a futuristic font (called "Stop"), and colored green, over the text "Maryland Public Television". They both zoom in slowly, and when they stop, the MPT logo shines.

FX/SFX: The zooming of the logo and the shine.

Cheesy Factor: The zoom-in is kinda rough.

Music/Sounds: A generic chime fanfare, ending in a flourish.

Availability: This was the most short-lived of MPT logos, so it's kind of a hard find. I'd consider this to be a placeholder logo.

Scare Factor: None.

7th Logo
(1986-1992)

Nickname: "MPT in Space", "My Public TV"

Logo: The letters "MPT", in the same font as before, but colored gold, zoom out and flip around on a purple/black space BG with stars brightly shining. It settles in front of a bluish globe with several light streaks shooting across it at an angle. Then, "Maryland Public Television" (also in gold) is wiped in by what appears to be E.T.'s glowing finger (Well, it's really a pink-colored laser beam, but it does look like E.T.'s glowing finger)!

Variants:

A long variant, which was used for local promos, showed the channel numbers and areas in which MPT served zooming across a close-up of the globe before the camera zoomed out and the usual logo animation continued as usual, with "Capture the World", in gold script, appearing above. An announcer said "This is Maryland Public Television, serving Maryland, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia. TV worth watching.". This was shown locally.
During the early '90s, the announcer says "This is member-supported MPT. My public television.", and "My Public TV" would appear above the textless MPT logo, shining a bit. This was only shown locally.
There is another variant in which "Maryland Public Television" is shown above and "Production" is shown below.
There is another local variant used late in the logo's life in which some lines streak across the bottom of the screen and the station listings flip up on the lines after the network name fades in above. An announcer says "This is member-supported Maryland Public TV, serving Maryland, "Washington D.C., and northern Virginia.".

FX/SFX: Top-notch CGI for 1986!

Music/Sounds: A 4-note synth-piano fanfare. The "long" version used a series of synth whooshes ending with three synth chimes and a weird synth flourish. The 4th variant uses a much more mellow synth theme that still contains the "MPT chimes". Sometimes, as a program outro tag, the closing theme would play over.

Availability: Pretty much extinct outside of old tapes.

Scare Factor: Low.

8th Logo
(1992-1999)

Nicknames: "The Globe", "Tons of Images"

Logo: We see a spinning globe against a globe against a sea at sunset between a flag of Maryland and the U.S., among other images. The globe brings forth a silver version of the MPT logo, coming from the right, while at the same time, bringing forth "Maryland Public Television" in the same font as the 1984 logo, but all in caps. When they settle in place, the globe zooms away. "PRODUCTION" fades in below. Often times, a closed caption (CC) bug appears in the lower left corner.

Variants:

There is an extended version only used locally. Against the same BG, we see a square with a pattern of the Earth on it, which morphs into a globe, playing the animation from the regular variant. This time, "Putting Maryland First" slides in from the top right in gold script, and a list of the stations it serves flashes in below. The MPT logo shines a bit.
Another local version has an announcer saying "This is member-supported MPT.". At the end, "Fulfilling the Promise" flashes in above in yellow script, and at the same time, the station list flashes in below. The MPT logo shines a bit.
Sometimes, this logo will appear superimposed.

FX/SFX: The globe forming & bringing forth the logo, and the background images.

Music/Sounds: A three-note synth-chime fanfare, which was also used by RTL in Germany. The local version used an extended version of the music with an announcer saying "This is Maryland Public Television, member-supported TV serving Maryland, Washington D.C., and northern Virginia.". However, it tends to have the closing theme of a show over it (as spotted on Kratt's Creatures, Zoboomafoo, and Wimzie's House, just to name a few).

Availability: Uncommon; might be seen if your local PBS station runs older tapes.

Scare Factor: Low.

9th Logo
(1999-2002)

Nickname: "Another Cursive M"

Logo: A cursive gold M is seen turning into place on the left against a black background, with the flag of Maryland (or is it Baltimore?) and a model globe spinning. Once it's in place, those images fade out as "A production of Maryland Public Television" fades in below, along with a black map of Maryland with gold outlines. The M shines.

Variants:

The background may be of a spinning blue wireframe globe located in the bottom right corner instead.
Sometimes, on Zoboomafoo, this logo can be seen as a static image.

FX/SFX: The turning M and other images, and the M shining.

Music/Sounds: A three-note piano theme, or the end theme of the show.

Availability: Can be found on Zoboomafoo, Wall $treet Week, and MotorWeek.

Scare Factor: None.

10th Logo
(1999-2002)

Nickname: "Cursive M"

Logo: We see shots of several images relating to Maryland, ending with a Maryland state flag waving. Throughout the logo, you can see a shadow of the cursive M from before. Then, it fades to a black background, where we see the same gold colored M in a cursive font dropping down from the upper-left portion of the screen as a spark flickers below. Once it's in place, "Maryland Public Television" fades in below, and two flares, colored pink and gold, slide in and spin around the logo. As a local station ID, station information fades in below.

Variant: There is a shorter variant of this logo.

FX/SFX: The M flying into place.

Music/Sounds: Usually has the closing theme playing over, but on Bloomberg Morning News, it has a synth-guitar tune, sometimes coupled with announcer saying "This is member-supported MPT, serving Maryland, northern Virginia, and Washington D.C.".

Availability: Only used locally, and can be found as an alternate for the previous logo. BMN and Wimzie's House both had this logo.

Scare Factor: None.

Runecraft

curiousgeorge60 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:40:55 CST

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Ocean Software

EnormousRat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:11:13 CST

Logo captures by logoboy95

Background: Ocean Software was a video game publisher and developer operated from 1984 until 1998, when the video game studio was shut down. The company did not have a logo until 1989, when Beach Volley came out for Amiga in video game stores. In 1998, it was brought by Infogrames (of course, the company that features a fictional armadillo in the logo) and was renamed to Infogrames UK. Ocean Software's last game is GT 64: Championship Edition for Nintendo 64.

1st Logo
(1989-1995)

Nicknames: "The Dolphin", "The Ocean", "The Rectangle Box", "The Reflection"

Logo: On a black background, we see the Ocean logo in a round font (which has an often prominent placement on an box art), shining. Then a live-action dolphin comes by and sees over us. The live-action dolphin then exits out of the screen. Sometimes the dolphin didn't appear on the logo, unless "PRESENTS" ("LICENSED BY NINTENDO" for SNES games) is seen underneath the logo.

Variants: The Ocean logo has had any variations during the era. Here are some of them:

Beach Volley (1989): The Ocean logo goes up when it appears.
Darkman (1990): The Ocean logo is joined by the title screen and the Universal logo (without a globe) on a copyright info.
Darkman (1991) (Amiga): The Ocean logo appears joining by the credits below during the opening credits.
Darkman (1991) (Game Boy): The Ocean logo is joined by the title screen of the game.

Hook (1992) (NES): The Ocean logo is joined by the title screen on a copyright info.
RoboCop 3 (1992): The Ocean logo was in 3D and in black and white. Was also used in Epic.
Cool World (1992): Just the Ocean logo but with "Presents" in red and in script below it, with the Nintendo license information below.
Lethal Weapon (1992): The logo has a dark look on its name.
Lethal Weapon (1992) (SNES): The logo is on a black/blue gradient background.
The Addams Family (1992): The background was dark purple instead of black.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1992): The Ocean logo is joined by the LJN logo tinted in blue, with copyright info underneath.
The Untouchables (1993): The Ocean logo was in a blue/yellow tint.
Burning Rubber (1993): The Ocean logo is on a sign and cars race through the logo.
Syndicate (1994): The Ocean logo is in majestic purple and there is no rectangle box behind it.
Jurassic Park (NES) (1993): TBA
Soccer Kid (1994): The Ocean logo flies from the top of the screen and places in the middle.
Jurassic Park II: The Chaos Continues (1994): The Ocean logo was in stonish gray on a green reflected ugly box. The logo then shines with a green light.
Eek! the Cat (1994): The logo is colored orange instead of blue.
Super Turrican 2 (1994): The Ocean logo forms in an underwater form.
Addams Family Values (1994): Just the Ocean logo but the background is the spooky R.I.P. stone hideout.
Micro Machines (1994): The Ocean logo stretches at an angle through the screen then goes normal.
The Flintstones: Movie Edition (1995): Fred Flintstone runs past over a stonish Ocean logo on a greenish teal background and yells his catchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-DOO!!!".

FX/SFX: Everything.

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

Availability: Common; can be seen on Ocean games of the era, like The Addams Family and Lethal Weapon among others.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo
(1992-1993)

Nickname: "8-Bit Ocean Atlantic"

Logo: Set in the sky, with a huge cloud underneath, we see what looks like a yellow airplane tail with the word ''OCEAN' on it. It passes from right to left, leaving what looks like smaller clouds. When the plane leaves, the clouds (15 of them, to be exact) morph into the words "OCEAN PRESENTS..." and we fade out.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The plane flying to the left and the clouds morphing into "OCEAN PRESENTS...". Not bad for 8-bit animation.

Music/Sounds: The buzzing of the plane, and a downward 8-bit synth flourish, which is part of the intro to McDonaldland/M.C. Kids.

Availability: This was only used on the infamous NES game McDonaldland. This is not present on the NTSC version, titled M.C. Kids; instead, it is replaced by the word "Virgin" in the Virgin corporate logo font, as Virgin Games published it in that territory.

Scare Factor: None.

3rd Logo
(1995-1998)

Nickname: "The Reflection Box Strikes Back"

Logo: On a white background, we see the same Ocean logo as before, fading in.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on GT 64: Championship Edition, Fighters Destiny and MRC: Multi-Racing Championship for Nintendo 64.

Scare Factor: None.

4th Logo
(Mid 1990's)

Nickname: "The Dolphin Returns"

Logo: We see the same Ocean logo on a black background, this time with an image of reflecting waves inside. The logo animates in the form of ripply waves, and a dolphin comes in from the left, looking at us and smiling, a la the 1st logo. The dolphin leaves, and the logo stops making rippling, and we fade out.

Variants:

A still version of this logo can be seen on some games.
On Tunnel B1 and Last Rites, we see a shark instead of a dolphin across the Ocean logo, then when the shark leaves, we see three dolphins.

FX/SFX: All the animation in the logo.

Music/Sounds:

A mystical synth jingle (a reference to dolphin's ultrasound locator) - for the single dolphin version.

An ascending synth soundtrack with dolphin locating squeak - for the multiple dolphins version.

Availability: The animated version can be found in the first game of the Worms franchise. The still logo can be found in True Pinball (one of the first virtual pinball games ever). The animated version can be also found on said game for PlayStation. The version with shark can be seen on Tunnel B1 and Last Rites.

Scare Factor: None.

5th Logo
(1997-1999)

Logo: On a black background, the same Ocean logo, colored blue, zooms out. It pauses for a few seconds, then begins to spin around once, and we fade out.

Variant: In Wetrix, the logo comes out of the water. Then the words "presented by" appearing above the logo. Then the logo flies away.

FX/SFX: The logo zooming out and spinning.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on the Mission: Impossible video game for the N64, and on Heart of Darkness for PC.

Scare Factor: Medium to high for the dark environment and lack of music. The zooming of the logo isn't clean, either.

NBC Movie Intros

wolfie14 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:30:08 CST

1st Open
(1961-1972)

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(1977-1979)

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(1979-1980)

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(1980-1981)

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8th Open
(1981-1983)

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(1983-1985)

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10th Open
(1984-1986)

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(1986-1990)

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(1990-1993)

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(1993-2002)

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14th Open
(1995-1999)

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CBS Movie Intros

wolfie14 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:28:11 CST

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Nickelodeon Movies

Yoshidude987 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:18:06 CST

Logo descriptions and captures by AsdfTheRevival, Logoboy95, CuriousGeorge60 and sega3dmm
Editions by AsdfTheRevival, Logoboy95, sega3dmm, V of Doom, CuriousGeorge60 and DreamMechanic

Background: This is the movie production arm of Nickelodeon established in 1996 to produce children's movies, mainly based on Nick shows, being distributed by Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom and subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc.

1st Logo
(1996)

Nicknames: "The Rhino", "Blue Rhino", "Nick Rhino"

Logo: A blue rhino runs in the clouds to the logo shaped as a cloud, but crashes into each of the clouds, which is revealed to be a movie set and then finally crashes into to the camera. The blue rhino hangs on to the Nickelodeon cloud in a black screen, then the cloud turns into a spat-like Nickelodeon logo.

FX/SFX: 2-D Animation.

Cheesy Factor: Animation's kinda choppy...

Music/Sounds: Dramatic music that segues into the vocal Nickelodeon jingle when the rhino crashes into to the camera.

Availability: Rare; only seen on Harriet the Spy.

Scare Factor: Minimal; may suprise you for the first time, but you'll start to know it.

2nd Logo
(1997)

Nicknames: "Fast Food Drink", "Home of the Good Burger", "Orange Soda"

Logo: On a black and blue gradient background, we see orange soda being poured into a large cup. When it's done pouring, the cap of the cup with a straw closes the top and the cup drives around the screen until it brakes and falls down, leaving the cap open. The sods spills out of the cup, reading "Nickelodeon".

FX/SFX: CGI, of course.

Cheesy Factor: Well, the CGI is kinda bland, but it's not that bad.

Music/Sounds: Soda pouring sounds and car sounds. The brake sounds are accompanied with the vocal Nickelodeon theme: "Nick nick nick nick, Na-nick nick nick, NICKELODEON!".

Availability: Rare. Only seen on Good Burger. Good Burger is also occasionally aired on USA Network, however it's rarely shown. Good Burger was last seen on television December 8th, 2007 on Nickelodeon with this logo left intact.

Scare Factor: None.

3rd Logo
(1998)

Nickname: "Slap T. Pooch"

Logo: Slap T. Pooch from Oh Yeah! Cartoons spots a blob of orange goo and tries to catch it. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. It does, then a giant foot stomps on the dog and goo, turning to the Nickelodeon footprint as seen on the gates to the Nicktoons Studios in Burbank, CA. The camera pans to reveal it, then Slap falls off of it.

FX/SFX: The dog and the dot, dog struggles, the foot stomps the dog, and the camera pans to show the Nickelodeon logo.

Music/Sounds: A weird 3-note tune, followed by sound effects, and a hip-hop mix the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability: Can only be seen on The Rugrats Movie. On publicity for the film and Rugrats In Paris: The Movie, a blue oval reading "MOVIES" in Arial Narrow font accompanies the footprint. Note that this is not seen on Rugrats In Paris: The Movie.

Scare Factor: Low.

4th Logo
(1998)

Nickname: "Crane Operator"

Logo: On a white background, we see an orange movie camera with "Nickelodeon" (in it's well known font). A green filmstrip sticks out reading "movies".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Possibly the opening theme of the trailer.

Availability: Only seen on the first trailer for The Rugrats Movie.

Scare Factor: None.

5th Logo
(2000-2001)

Nickname: "The Man and the House"

Logo: Here are the logo variants used:

Snow Day: A man shovels the snow off the walk to his house and his dog is watching him, sitting down on the snow. Then, a giant snowball \ falls onto his house and completely destroys it in a very graphic manner. The dog runs off barking in a panic and the man does a double take. The snow falls off the snowball revealing a large orange ball, and we see the text "Nickelodeon" on the ball. The background turns black and the ball then bounces to the middle-left of the screen, and then a small orange ball and a blue ball appear. The word "movies" is on a blue ball, and then it fades out.
Rugrats in Paris: There is a special Parisian variant in which it is nearly the same, except the regular man is replaced with a stereotypical French man that rakes leaves in front of his house in the autumn season, and the Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background not too far from his house. The ball smashing the house is now just the big orange ball with the Nickelodeon text on it. Then when the logo resumes like normal, and the live-action dog appears on the bottom-right of the screen, and barks to the logo until it fades out.
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: This variant cuts off the live-action and fades in where the Nickelodeon orange ball bouncing to the middle-left of the screen with the smaller orange ball. Then Goddard runs into screen with his synthesized bark. He looks at the logo knowing it's incomplete, whimpering. He activates a laser beam on his back and creates a blue ball saying "movies" with it. He puts away the laser and gives a final bark to the audience.

FX/SFX: All live-action with CGI for the Nickelodeon Movies balls. For the third variant, all of it is CGI.

Cheesy Factor: None really.

Music/Sounds: The snow version has a light whistling tune that abruptly stops when the house gets broken by the snowball, and then changes to a tuba/whistling variant the trademark Nickelodeon theme. The Paris version has an accordion playing light music in the background, followed by an accordion version of the Nickelodeon theme and a "bark" of the dog. The Jimmy Neutron version has a funny tune.

Availability: Seen on Snow Day, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The Rugrats in Paris version was also used as an ID for Nickelodeon to help promote the movie.

Scare Factor: Low.

6th Logo
(2002-2003)

Nicknames: "Sneezing", "The Wiggling Balls", "2002: A Nick Odyssey"

Logo: On a black background, we see a light near the top of the screen, parodying the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Suddenly a sneezing noise is heard, and an orange ball with "Nickelodeon" in it zooms out from the middle of the screen, while a smaller blue ball with "Movies" on it appears next to it. The Nickelodeon ball stops the blue ball from spinning. The word ''movies'' in the logo sneezes and then turns back to make the finished logo.

FX/SFX: CGI Animation.

Cheesy Factor: Well, the CGI is really good.

Music/Sounds:

Theme 1: A dramatic four note fanfare, then a light instrumental hip hop-like Nickelodeon theme.
Theme 2: Two bell rings with sun ray sounds and a 20-note techno version of the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability: The long version is rare, as it was seen only on Hey Arnold! The Movie [with Theme 1] and Rugrats Go Wild! [with Theme 2]. The short version appears at the end of the credits for almost every Nickelodeon movie on television since 2002. However, Rugrats Go Wild! was re-ran on Nick at Nite on Thanksgiving 2007.

Scare Factor: None whatsoever; a very cool looking logo.

7th Logo
(2002)

Nickname: ''The Dog''

Logo: We see a brown-striped white dog sniffing across the screen, his nose coming up really close to the camera. When the dog stops, we then cut to the Nickelodeon Movies logo on grass, then the dog licks the screen as we cut to dark.

FX/SFX: Another CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Sniffing and grunting sounds from the dog..

Availability: This is actually a snippet of the Nickelodeon US "Dog Spot" ID with the Nickelodeon Movies logo instead of the Nickelodeon ball logo. Only on The Wild Thornberrys Movie. It was also seen on TV spots for Yours, Mine and Ours.

Scare Factor: Low to medium.

8th Logo
(2004)

Nicknames: "The Bubbles", "Underwater Bubbles", "Psychedelic Nickelodeon"

Logo: We see an explosion, which brings forth a blue ball. Inside the ball, a rose blooms, and a orange blimp flies through it. Then, we see a kaleidoscopic view of fish swimming, and then, we see a water ripple. An orange bubble floats outward, and spawns two more bubbles that form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The finished product is in an underwater environment.

FX/SFX: Again, EXTRAORDINARY CGI!

Music/Sounds: A bouncy, high-pitched wind fanfare.

Availability: Only seen on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Scare Factor: None.

9th Logo
(2004-2006)

Nickname: "The Moons"

Logo: On a space background, we see the shadow text on a blue moon that reads "Nick". Then, when the blue moon flies away, the 3D text "NICKELODEON" zooms out from the bottom of the screen, as the camera pans to reveal two orange moons and a movies takes into place. The word "movies" spins in around a blue moon.

Variant: There is a cut-short variant on Yours, Mine and Ours.

FX/SFX: Once again, Well-rendered CGI animation.

Cheesy Factor: The CGI is good, but the logo itself is boring.

Music/Sounds: Plays over the opening theme.

Availability: Can be seen on such films as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Yours, Mine & Ours, Barnyard and Charlotte's Web.

Scare Factor: Low.

10th Logo
(2008- )

Nicknames: "The Splat", "Flying Logo and Letters"

Logo: Against a black BG, some orange slime swirls out from the distance toward the viewer. The camera pans around and the slime forms the Nickelodeon logo with "movies" on its right.

FX/SFX: The slime.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: First seen on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also appears on Hotel for Dogs.

Scare Factor: Minimal.

THX

vzeu019j — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:46:04 CST

Editions by sega3dmm, mr3urious, Nathan B., kidinbed and Jeff B.
Logo captures by sega3dmm and kidinbed

Background: THX is a motion picture quality certification system (despite being branded as a "sound system" until 1997) founded by Tomlinson Holman and George Lucas in 1982 (in turn was then-owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. until 2001, when it was spun off in it's present day company-THX Ltd.), named after the first film Lucas directed, THX 1138. The first THX film was 1983's hit movie Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. THX means "Tomlinson Holman's EXperiment". THX has provided certified VHS, DVD, and even LaserDisc films from major studios such as Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), United Artists (UA), among other studios, also when this was seen in theaters. They have certified video games as well.

1st Trailer
(May 1983)

Nickname: "Wings"

Logo: We see a pitch-black screen. Then we see white text on the screen that reads "For the past 35 years, motion picture loudspeaker systems have not changed...". When it has been on the screen for a while, it fades out and new white text appears reading "Lucasfilm, Ltd. and this theatre are pleased to introduce a new motion picture sound system.". That text fades out and we wait for a while and the letters "THX", which have a line under them and have the "T" slightly taller whose stem extends over the other two letters, appear in a glassy sky blue color. The color fades in majestically with "LUCASFILM LTD." above it and "SOUND SYSTEM" below it, both in small text. It stays on screen for about 10 seconds, then slowly fades out with the text above and below the logo.

FX/SFX: The text and THX logo fading in and out.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized crescendo sound effect known as "Deep Note". It starts off containing a deep airplane-like sound (the same sound that you would hear as if an airplane were flying), which sounds steady in sound, although it begins to slowly deepen in pitch( only a little bit), and eventually gets even deeper and slows down in tone. At the exact same time, a higher synth sound-effect begins to get higher (and louder) in tone until both sounds stop and stay in one pitch. It was made by James Andy Morrer and became one of the world's most recognized (and scariest) sound trademarks.

Availibility: Was never on THX-certified home video releases. Debuted in the theatrical premiere of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Can be seen on select Demo DVDs and the Internet, including THX's official website.

Scare Factor: Medium to high, especially if you haven't heard the Deep Note before, as it may cause "THXphobia". Low for those who are used to seeing it.

2nd Trailer
(Summer 1983-2005)

Nickname: "Broadway"

Logo: On a black BG, we see a blue outline of a rectangle. The gray text "The Audience is Listening" fades inside the outline, then fades out. A few seconds later, the THX logo in silver appears, The blue rectangle outline fades out, and

"LUCASFILM LTD.

SOUND SYSTEM"

appears and the THX logo shines.

Variants: Throughout the years, this trailer had many different variants:

1995 A: The audio was remixed digitally with then-new technology.
1995 B: Probably the most recognizable THX trailer variant. It was exclusively to home video releases and revised a bit more. The gray text reading "The Audience is Listening" is replaced with "Digitally Mastered for Optimal Audio and Video Performance" in Arial font in white and arranged in the center of the outline. That text appears longer than the regular version, and "DIGITALLY" appears above the THX logo and "MASTERED" appears below that logo. Those texts fade in with the THX logo instead of appearing after the blue outline disappears.
1995 C: Both the audio and the logo is shorter than the standard 1983-1997 theatrical version. The audio (in this, and both 1995 A & B variants) is also in higher(or sometimes lower) pitches.
On LaserDisc releases from THX, the blue rectangle appears as usual, but with a difference: the message reads "Mastered and Duplicated for Audio and Video Performance", and then, the text fades out, the THX logo appears, but the LaserDisc logo appears under THX. The logo shines, and the blue rectangle fades out.
From 1997-2001, the original text ABOVE (and above only) the THX logo was "LUCASFILM LTD", but because of the "DIGITALLY MASTERED" text that debuted in 1995, this became an alternate logo . This was officially replaced with the "DIGITALY MASTERED" (as described above) text when Lucasfilm Ltd. spun off THX into it's present-day company. This could be seen on 1995-2001 releases from THX, such as mostly Disney movies.
1997 A: Same as the 1995 B variant, but the pitch seems to be higher. This was only on DVD releases.
1997 B: As with THX being no longer known as a "sound system", the logo is removed out of theaters, and exclusively seen on VHS and Laserdisc(and also later on DVD)releases.

fades in, the rectangle fades out, and the text fades out, as well.

FX/SFX: See 1st logo.

Music/Sounds: A louder and slightly shorter version of the Deep Note.

Music/Sound Variant: Around 1990, the audio was slighly revamped and warped(while this logo was still seen in theaters).

Availability: One of the most common THX logos ever. It appears on many THX-certified DVDs and VHSs available online as well.

Scare Factor: See 1st logo.

3rd Trailer(1st alternate)
(1988-1993)

Nickname: "Cinamoron"

Logo: A small gray box appears in the center of the screen, then a conductor's hand appears in that box and flicks his baton, blasting out a blue "hyperspace". It turns red, and when it fully turns red, we see a 3D THX logo zoom towards us against a black screen with red dots. Then, we see some text saying "The Audience is Listening" in the same font and color used in "Broadway". A few seconds, a subtitle reading "Lucasfilm, Ltd. Sound System" fades in too.

Variant: This trailer was remixed in Dolby Digital in 1995. This variant had slight changes. At the start, text fades in reading "Dolby Digital sound in a THX Theatre" and at the end, the Dolby logo was added at the left-bottom of the screen.

FX/SFX: CGI that was done at ILM.

Music/Sounds: A nice orchestral piece done by James Horner. And Fortunately, for those who don't like the Deep Note theme, it is not heard here. We hear an orchestra warming up at the start, then some music, and then a beautiful composition of ascending notes when the THX logo appears.

Availability: This became the first alternate THX trailer to be used in 1988. This proabably no longer plays in THX theaters, but it can be found on some THX demo DVDs.

Scare Factor: Low, even for those who have THXphobia. Maybe the least-scary THX trailer, and also the only THX trailer so far that doesn't use the Deep Note.

4th Trailer(2nd alternate)
(1993-1997)

Nickname: "Grand"

Logo: On a black BG, we see some white text that reads "This auditorium is equipped with a THX sound system...", but some seconds after, the BG turns into a red-black cloudy BG. And we see some white text that reads "The audience is listening.". After that, the red-black BG turns slowly turns blue, somewhat similar to the previous BG. Seconds after, a light with lens flares moves upward and a 90° turned THX logo rotates to its front in a blue-black gradient BG, with "LUCASFILM LTD" over and "SOUND SYSTEM" below.

FX/SFX: The background changing, the texts fading, and "THX" is completely in silver 3D.

Music/Sounds: Some chimes, then a ascending group of notes, ending with an excellent rendition of the Deep Note.

Availability: Seen in all THX theaters during 1993, until 1997. Probably seen online as well.

Scare Factor: Low to medium; it could probably can get to high for those with "THX-phobia".

5th Trailer(3rd alternate)
(1996- )

Nickname: "Tex"

Logo: The THX trailer starts as usual, which then breaks down as if due to an electrical failure. A light is switched on as a robot named Tex rolls in from off-camera, muttering "Oh, George.". Tex opens a panel on the X, grabs a rocket pack, and flies off screen, pulling out a hammer just before he goes off screen. Tex hammers at something on the right side of the screen, drills at something on the left side, audibly complains after dropping one of his tools, and then flies over to the T and moves a large switch. The switch causes the logo to re-activate and complete its usual sequence. Tex realizes the door in X is still open. Tex kicks the logo, which shuts the door, causing a black screen to fall which reads "The Audience Is Listening".

Variants: On DVD or Laserdisc releases, the messages from the Broadway Trailer, which are "Digitally Mastered for Optimal Audio and Video Performance", or "Mastered and Duplicated for Optimal Audio and Video Performance" appears WITHOUT the blue rectangle outline. Then, the animation plays as usual. And between 1996 and 1997, the "sound system" title appears under THX(as well as Lucasfilm Ltd. on the top). Once after 1997, the "sound system" name was no longer seen.

FX/SFX: Nice CGI for 1996, which was done at Pixar Animation Studios!

Music/Sounds: Some robot-roaming sounds, including the Deep Note. See "Logo" for the rest.

Availability: Might have been common in THX theaters during it's heyday, but it can be available on some Pixar movies on DVD such as Cars, and some THX demo DVDs. Seen online as well.

Scare factor: Low to high, yet again.

6th Trailer
(1997- )

Nicknames: "Tex 2", "Moo Can", "Cow", "Tex Strikes Again"

Logo: We see Tex the robot from the previous logo, as he appears out of nowhere right in front of us. He has a can in his hand which has a picture of a cow and says "moo"(which is in a bubble cloud, as if the cow were saying it), and the only way we see it is that Tex zooms it up towards us closer. He takes it back, and turns it upside down, and dips it, realizing the can is empty. After fliping it right side up again, Tex gives us a "one minute" signal, and flies away. In the meantime, while we see nothing but the background, we hear him gathering something as he then returns with the "moo can". This time, however, he also has a plug in his opposite hand, and plugs it into the can. After that, we hear the sound of cows mooing, and beside that, the THX logo appears sliding up from the middle of the screen to nearly the top. Tex points to the text, but suddenly the THX logo begins to rumble and shake. Tex sees this, and he nervously flies off with the can and the plug. The THX logo jolts to the left side for a moment before going back to it's normal position. And like the last logo, the black screen with the text "The Audience is Listening" falls to the screen.

Variant: On some occasions, the THX logo is already seen at the very beginning of the logo before the animation begins, which means that in this variant, Tex is basically doing all of his animation right in front of the company's text. And on a few alternate occasions between 1997 and 2001, the Lucasfilm Ltd. name was seen on top of THX. Following after that, the screen falls as usual, but instead of "The Audience is Listening" text, a message says "The Best Sound, The Best Picture...... You're Watching a THX Certified Feature."(as seen in the "cavalcade" logo below).

FX/SFX: Same as 5th trailer.

Music/Sounds: Same as the previous logo, except the Deep Note is replaced by cows mooing it, and if you really listen carefully, a high pitched voice is heard towards the end of the mooing, which sounds like someone yelling "STOP!" before the sound of rumbling and cracking.

Availability: Maybe still seen in theaters. Can be seen on some Pixar and THX Demo DVDs, including the VHS for Monsters, Inc. A variant is also on the Lair video game for PS3. Seen online, as well.

Scare Factor: Low to medium, as this logo is intended to be funny, though it may cause "THXphobia".

7th Trailer
(2001- )

Nickname: "Cavalcade"

Logo: In a darkly-lit environment, we zoom in toward a glassy blue sphere, which has clouds rolling and lightning flickering. As the environment illuminates, we see that the sphere is barely hovering over a textured blue floor. Suddenly, the sphere shatters, and the sky is revealed to contain several rolling gray clouds. The glass then liquifies and gathers in the center. Some lightning strikes it and forms a silver THX logo. Then, the environment fades to black as a shimmering blue rectangle is drawn clockwise around it. The logo fades out, and the URL www.thx.com fades in.

Variants:
There is an early variant where the THX web adress isn't seen. On some releases, after the THX logo fades out, the text "Digitally Mastered for Optimal Audio and Video Performance" (from the Broadway logo)appears in the blue line. At one point from 2001(when Lucasfilm still owned it), "Lucasfilm Ltd." was seen(exactly the way it was in the 1995 Broadway variant) above the THX logo. On the DVD release of Terminator 2, the T2 logo apears in a box as it zooms to us. Then, as the usual animation for this logo, the box shatters. Water erodes from the ground, and the THX logo appears as usual, forming from the water. After that, the THX logo fades out, and then it contains a message reading "The Best Sound, The Best Picture. You're Watching a THX Certified Feature" appears one by one as each text fades out before the other. Also, the Deep Note in this variant(the Terminator 2 variant) is slightly different heard, if you really listen carefully to it.
FX/SFX: Just top-notch CGI.

Music/Sounds: Thunderclaps/electric shocking sounds, followed by glass shattering, then the Deep Note. A laser-like sound is heard as the rectangle is formed.

Availability: Currently seen on several THX DVD and THX theatres.

Scare Factor: Medium to high, due to the sphere shattering all of a sudden, in addition to the presence of the Deep Note.

8th Trailer
(2002)

Nickname: "Shrek"

Logo: TBA.

FX/SFX: TBA.

Cheesy Factor: TBA.

Music/Sounds: TBA.

Availability: TBA.

Scare Factor: TBA.

9th Trailer
(2005)

Nicknames: "Galaga", "8-Bit", "The one that appears when you leave Soul Calibur III at it's title screen for a while (yes, this happened when I [WillWill45] did that)", "Galaga Meets the Deep Note"

Logo: On a white background, we see the words "PLAY GAME!?" in a regular video game font flashing in red. Two lines of all-red aliens from the arcade game Galagacome from the top of the screen, cross each other, make a U-turn, and merge into one big section. A third section comes from the bottom of the screen, spins around, and goes into the big section. A fourth section does the same thing. Afifthsection of aliens comes from the top of screen and makes a U-turn. It goes into the big section too. Two or three more sections go into the big section. As the aliens get in their place, an all-red spaceship comes from the bottom of the screen and stops. One of its guns moves a little bit like an arm. Then its guns all bend over, signaling the beginning of an 8-bit rendition of the THX "Deep Note". However, one of the aliens gets mad, and the others run away, prompting the spaceship shoot it, and it does. The aliens then get back together, and the spaceship's guns all bend over once again, which signals the beginning of a regular "Deep Note". A red "THX" logo with a "CERTIFIED GAME" byline (in the same font as "PLAY GAME!?" earlier) moves the aliens out of the way while the spaceship's guns "wave" to the aliens. When the "THX" logo is in the middle of the screen, the spaceship is on top of it and the spaceship zooms off. The entire logo then pixelates into a black background, a shiny "THX" logo, and the byline "CERTIFIED GAME" in Arial. The finished logo shines.

FX/SFX: Too much to mention in delightfully retro 8-bit graphics (except after the pixelation).

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of Galaga, various 8-bit sounds (including sounds from Galaga and the beginning of an 8-bit rendition of the "Deep Note"), and finally the Deep Note.

Availability: As far as I know, this only appeared on Soul Calibur III for the PS2.

Scare Factor: Minimal to medium, even if you have "THXphobia"; this THX trailer is a favorite of those who have seen it because of its retro coolness.

10th Trailer
(2007- )

Nickname: "Amazing Life"

Logo: We start out with a diamond shape figure rising out of liquid(a la a ripple effect), and forms into another figure, which looks like petals from a flower because we're looking at it from the top. Inside the "flower" is a crown shape figure that has wings on top of it, slowly spinning around as we zoom in on it. Then, the scene changes. We now see another set of wings that also spin around, but faster and a ring figure is spinning around with it and is going down towards the bottom of the screen. And the scene changes again. The same set of wings from the first scene is shown, once again spinning slowly, with shades seen on the left side of the screen. As the scene changes again, a tulip is seen zooming in towards us as it opens up it's front, and then we zoom in on a mushroom as it bumps up a bit. Then a set of butterflies fly by(with some stopping in front center of the screen), and we see something swing by as it makes a clanging noise. Intact with the drumbeats of the jingle, we see a variety of mushrooms as they "beat" and bump up the the drumbeats, and then the scene changes to swirly-like circles which vibrate as we zoom from one to another. We zoom into another tulip, and suddenly, we fly over all of the above mentioned items, and it tilts to it's front, and as it zooms back, it evolves the THX logo, which has the designs of green at first, but then changes to it's usual gray text and color. This THX logo looks slightly(but also noticibly) diffrerent than the other logos of the past. The text zooms back.

FX/SFX: The whole animation.

Cheesy Factor: I don't think so. But it can get cheesy to some, who has never seen animation like this before on a THX trailer!

Music/Sounds: A variety of instruments playing out, with background music by Lost in the Sky, which ends with a less noisy/less scary version of the Deep Note. And unlike the previous THX logos, the music comes to a quick end rather than fading out smoothly.

Availability: Seen in most THX theatres and new THX DVDs. Available online, as well.

Scare Factor: Low to high, once again.

11th Tralier
(2000)

Nickname: "Broadway 2000"

Logo: We see a pitch black screen (ala the 1983 "Broadway" logo), then we see the text "Let's see it in......", with each word coming one at the time in the center of the screen. Then, we see the THX logo, appearing, with the Lucasfilm Ltd. notice at the top of THX. The logo shines, and we fade out.

SFX: The words zooming in at the screen.

Music/Sounds: The Deep Note, of course. However, the longer version (and one of the abridged variants of the 1983 logo's theme) is being played(around this time for home video and DVD releases, the logo and music was cut
short).

Cheesy Factor: I don't know about this one. It may seem cheesy to some, especially with the animation, but it depends.

Availability: Seen in THX theaters of the time.

12th Trailer
(2007)

Nickname: "Horton"

Logo: On a black background, we see this odd speck that talks in a familiar voice to Horton (from "Horton Hears a Who"). It gets closer.... and... closer... OH! It's just the mayor.
They talk about if they can hear each other. Then, the mayor says "Kinda Losing Ya" causing horton to drop the THX logo, and he shouts "HOW ABOUT THIS? CAN YOU READ ME?!?" knocking the mayor off-screen, then followed by the INFAMOUS THX Deep Note, then the screen transitions to a message reading "THE AUDIENCE IS HEARING" (spoofing the "The Audience is Listening" motto). On the side of the screen we see the mayor peeking out of the side of the screen, with cloths blowing from the Deep Note.

FX/SFX: The characters moving, and the THX logo dropping.

Music/Sounds: The characters talking, a crash, and the Deep Note.

Cheesy Factor: The fact that the characters voices are ripped from the movie.

Availability: Only seen at THX theaters that are showing "Horton Hears A Who".

Scare Factor: Medium. the "crash" sound and the Deep Note might startle a few.

13th Trailer
(2000's)

Nickname: "The Science of Sensation"

Logo: We first see a pitch black screen, but then we see the words "THE SCIENCE OF SENSATION"(in capital letters) coming at us each two words at a time(like the "Broadway 2000" logo), then suddenly fading out by spreading the words apart. Then, the THX logo appears. With it's usual gray color, the logo shines with a "shinemark" coming down on the "T".

Cheesy Factor: None.

Music/Sounds: The extended version of the Deep Note. But....it contains the same sound variant that was used in the "cavalcade" Terminator 2 variant.

Music/Sound Variant: A higher pitched version exists.

Avalibility: Hmm...probabally seen in THX theaters, wherever this logo can be seen.

Scare Factor: Depends on if you have "THX-phobia".

Associated Artists Productions Films

VofDoom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:20:17 CST

Logo descriptions by James Fabiano
Logo captures by V of Doom
Editions by V of Doom and mr3urious
Video capture courtesy of ChineseSausage

Background: Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) was a distributor of theatrical feature films and short subjects for television founded in 1953 and headed by Elliott Hyman. The company was acquired by United Artists in 1958 and merged to United Artists Television, although the distribution arm was reincorporated as United Artists Associated (but would be renamed United Artists Television Distribution in 1968). After, the library was incorporated into the merger of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists in 1981, until Turner Entertainment took over the library in 1986 after the short-lived acquisition of MGM/UA by Ted Turner, and today, Warner Bros. Entertainment hands the AAP library.

(1955-1959)

Nickname: "The Atom"

Logo: Over a black background, the logo starts with a single white electron orbiting around. At the sound of a percussion riff, the electron becomes a lowercase "a." Another electron starts to orbit. It then becomes another "a." A third electron begins to orbit. That becomes a lowercase "p." The letters "aap" zoom up behind the spinning atom, as the words "Associated Artists Productions" below the "A's" and "presents" below the "P" fades in below. The atom zooms out.

Variant: A Canadian unit, United Telefilms Limited, also adapted the generic logo animation for its logo as well. The finished product was the capitalized "UTL" with "Distributed in Canada by United Telefims Limited" below that.

FX/SFX: The animation of the atom and appearances of the letters.

Music/Sounds: A rhythmic drum section is heard throughout the logo, with three corresponding cymbal crashes each accompanying the appearance of the three initials in A.A.P.

Availability: Extinct; seen on pre-1980's syndication prints of feature films from Warner Bros. and United Artists, respectively.

Scare Factor: Minimal; the drum rhythm and cymbals can get to some.

CLG Wiki Television Section

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This is the Television Section of the CLG Wiki. All television logo descriptions will be posted here.

News Corporation (20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television, Fox Television Studios, Foxstar Productions, Fox World, Fox Lab, FX Productions, Fox Factory, Fox Television Stations Productions, Fox 21, Fox News Productions, FNM Films, New World Entertainment, Four Star Entertainment, Genesis Entertainment, Blair Entertainment, Storer Programs Incorporated, Cannell Entertainment, Cannell Entertainment Distribution, Metromedia Producers Corporation, MTM Enterprises, MTM Television Distribution, MTM International, Victory Television, Regency Television)

Wagner/Cuban (2929 Entertainment, Rysher Entertainment, Television Program Enterprises, Bing Crosby Productions, Operation Prime Time)

The Walt Disney Company (Walt Disney Television, Disney·ABC Domestic Television, Disney-MGM Studios, Buena Vista Television, Buena Vista International Television, ABC Studios, ABC Entertainment, ABC Productions, ABC Circle Films, ABC News Productions, ESPN Original Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Television, Selmur Productions, Miramax Television, Touchstone Television, Greengrass Productions, SoapNet Originals)

Bertelsmann AG (FremantleMedia, ACI, Reeves Entertainment, All American Television, Crackerjack Productions, Goodson-Todman/Mark Goodson Television Productions, Grundy Television, LBS Communications, Inc., Orbis Entertainment, Pearson Television, Talkback Thames, Talkback Productions, Thames Television, Tiger Television Productions)

BBC (BBC, BBC America, Lionheart Television)

ITV plc. (ABC, ATV, Anglia, Associated-Rediffusion/Rediffusion, Border, Carlton, Central, Channel, Channel 4, Grampian, Granada, Harlech/HTV, IBA - Independent Broadcasting Authority, ITC Entertainment Group, ITV, London Weekend, Meridian, Scottish, Southern, TSW, TWW, Tyne Tees, Ulster, Westcountry, Westward, Yorkshire)

MGM Holdings, Inc. (MGM Television, United Artists Television, United Artists Broadcasting, The Mirisch Corporation, Ziv Television Programs, Orion Television, Samuel Goldwyn Television, Heritage Entertainment, American International Television, Azalea Pictures, Filmways Television, Heatter-Quigley/Merrill Heatter Productions)

General Electric/Vivendi SA (Canal+, NBC Universal Television, Universal Media Studios, Universal Cable Productions, Peacock Productions, Universal Television, Revue Studios, Kayro-Vue Productions, MCA Television, MTE, NBC Studios, NBC Enterprises, NBC International Ltd., NBC News Productions, CNBC Originals, Carnival Films, Multimedia Entertainment, Avco Embassy Television, Studios USA Television, USA Network Originals, Geffen Television, EMI Television, Almi Television Productions, PolyGram Television, Interscope Television, Working Title Television, Propaganda Television, California National Productions)

Sony Corporation (Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Television International, Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television, Columbia TriStar International Television, TriStar Television, Tri-Star Showcase, Coca-Cola Telecommunications, Colex Enterprises, Embassy Communications, TeleVentures, Norman Lear Companies, Screen Gems Television, Barris Industries, Stewart Tele Enterprises, Barry & Enright/Jack Barry Productions, Merv Griffin Entertainment, Revolution Television, Weintraub Entertainment Group Television, GSN Originals, Culver Entertainment, Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, 2waytraffic, Embassy Row)

TimeWarner (Warner Bros. Television, Warner Horizon Television, Warner Bros. International Television, New Line Television, Castle Rock Television, HBO Entertainment, HBO Enterprises, HBO Independent Productions, HBO Downtown Productions, HBO Latin America Originals, The Wolper Organization, Allied Artists Television Corporation, Seven Arts Television, Lorimar Television, Telepictures Productions, Telepictures Distribution, Time-Telepictures Television, Lorimar-Telepictures, Turner Entertainment, Turner Program Services, Turner Sports, Turner Television, CNN Productions, TruTV Originals, United Artists Associated, Guild Films, Motion Pictures for Television)

National Amusements, Inc. (Aaron Spelling Companies, ABC Films, BET Originals, Big Ticket Television, CBS News Productions, CBS Paramount Television, CBS Television Distribution, CBS Television Studios, CBS Productions, CBS Enterprises, Eyemark Entertainment, Group W Productions, CBS EYEtoo Productions, CBS Broadcast International, CBS Films, Cannon Television, Comedy Central, King World Productions, Camelot Entertainment Sales, Colbert Television Sales, Laurel Entertainment, MTV Networks, VH1 Networks, NBC Films, Nick@Nite Originals, Paramount Television, Paramount Television Service, Telemount-Mutual Productions, Desilu Productions, Torand Productions, Quinn Martin Productions, Republic Pictures Television, Hollywood Television Service, Studio City Television Productions, National Telefilm Associates, Schick Sunn Classics Productions, Solow Production Company, Showtime Networks, Spike TV Originals, Taft Entertainment Television, TV Land Originals, Viacom, Wilshire Court Productions, Worldvision Enterprises, Inc.)

DreamWorks, LLC (DreamWorks Television)

Liberty Media Corporation (Starz Media, Starz Originals, Starz Productions, IDT Television)

Hearst Corporation (Hearst Entertainment, Kelly News & Entertainment, Phoenix Entertainment Group)

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (Lions Gate Television, C/FP Television, Artisan Television, Debmar-Mercury, Debmar Studios, Mercury Entertainment, Modern Entertainment, Carolco Television, Orbis Communications, Termite Art Productions, Trimark Television, Vestron Television)

Crown Media Holdings (Colorization, Inc., Hal Roach Studios, Qintex Entertainment)

The Weinstein Company, LLC (The Weinstein Company Television, Dimension Television, Dimension Extreme Television)

Robert Rodriguez Companies (Rodriguez TV, Troublemaker Television)

RKO Pictures, LLC (RKO Television, RKO Nederlander)

TeleNext Media, Inc. (TeleNext Media, Inc., Procter & Gamble Productions)

Mediaset (Endemol, Joop van den Ende TV-Producties, 51 Minds Entertainment, Mindless Entertainment, 51 Pictures, True Entertainment, Initial Entertainment, Silvio Berlusconi Communications)

CanWest Global/Goldman Sachs Group (Global Television, Fireworks Entertainment, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Salter Street Films)

Chicago Tribune/Tribune Company (Tribune Entertainment, Tribune Broadcasting)

Public & Non-Profit Companies (Public Broadcasting Service, Annenberg Media, Connecticut Public Television, Corporation For Public Broadcasting, EFC, Georgia Public Television, KAET/Eight, KCET, KCTS-TV, Kentucky Educational Television, KBYU, KERA, KIXE-TV, KLRN, KLRU, KLVX, KOCE-TV, KPBS, KQED, KRMA, KSPS-TV, KTEH, KTCA, KUAT, KUED, KUHT, KUSM, Maryland Public Television, Mississippi ETV, Nebraska ETV, NIT/AIT, North Carolina Public Television/UNC-TV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, South Carolina ETV, WCET, WEDU, WETA, WFSU-TV, WGBH, WGBY, WGTE-TV, WHYY-TV, WIPB, WITF, WJCT, WMHT/WMHX, WLVT, WNED, WNET, WNYC, WPBT, WPSU-TV, WQED, WQLN, WSJK, WTTW, WTVS, WXXI, WYES)

Australian and New Zealand TV (ABC, API Television Productions, Beyond, Channel 9, Network Ten, Seven Network, Southern Star, Television New Zealand/TVOne/Television 2/South Pacific Television/TV3, Village Roadshow Television)

French TV (Gaumont Télévision, TF1)

Vanity (Al Howard Productions, Alan Sacks Productions, Alien Productions, Bad Robot, Barbour/Langley, Bloodworth-Thomason-Mozark Productions, Boam/Cuse Productions, Bungalow 78, Charles Fries Productions, Darren Star Productions, David Eick Productions, Dean Hargrove, Doozer, Finnegan/Pinchuck, Franklin/Waterman Worldwide, Fred Silverman, Goldman/Taylor Entertainment Co., Goldsmith Yuspa Productions, Goodman-Rosen Productions, Grosso-Jacobson Productions, Grub-Street Productions, Happy Madison Productions, Harpo Productions, Hometown Films Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Kedzie Productions, The Komack Company, KoMut Entertainment, Lynch/Frost Productions, Leap Off, Little Stranger, Inc., Lottery Hill Entertainment, Martin Manulis Productions, Miller-Boyett-Warren Productions, Picturemaker Productions, Quincy Jones/David Salzman, Reno & Osborn, Robin Schiff Productions, Roundelay-MF, SamJen Productions, Schlessinger Productions, Shady Acres Entertainment, Shephard/Robin Company, Steven Bochco Productions, The Tannenbaum Company, Tollin/Robbins Productions, Top Kick Productions/Norris Bros. Entertainment, View Askew Television, Wayans Bros. Companies, Where's Lunch?, Wolf Films, Worldwide Pants, Yani-Brune Entertainment, You Go Boy! Productions, Various Part 1, Various Part 2)

Miscellaneous (ABR Productions, Access Syndication, Action Media Group, Active Entertainment, Alfred Haber Distribution, Alan Enterprises, Amblin Television, Belisarius Productions, Cash Plus Media Services, Carruthers Company, Centerpoint, Chloe Productions, Comworld Productions, Corday Productions, DLT Entertainment, DePasse Entertainment, Motown Productions, Dicitel Television, Dick Clark Productions, Dobson Productions, Elliot Sluhan Productions, Facets Entertainment Group, Fiedler/Berlin Communications, Films for the Humanities, First National Telecommunications, Four Point Entertainment, Fuse Entertainment, Gaylord Entertainment Company, Glen A. Larson, Hyperion, Imagine Television, Jones 21st Century, The Landsburg Company, Leonard Hill Companies, Lynch-Biller Productions, Mandalay Television, Marble Arch Productions, Mark VII Limited, Muller Media Television Distribution, Matinee City, Morgan Creek Television, Paragon Entertainment Corporation, Program Exchange, Rhodes Productions, Savoy Pictures Television, Schaefer/Karpf Productions, SFM Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, Seagull Entertainment, Shavick Entertainment, Silver Pictures Television, S&S Productions, Syndicast Services, Inc., Talent Associates, Tower 12 Productions, Trans World International, Vin Di Bona Productions, Von Zerneck·Sertner Films, Weiss Global Enterprises, Westfall Productions, Whiland International S.A., Wind Dancer Productions, WWE, Other Television Companies)

CLG Wiki Technology Section

VofDoom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:53:24 CST

This is the Technology section of the CLG Wiki. All technology logo descriptions will be posted here.

TimeWarner (Vitaphone)

National Amusements, Inc. (VistaVision)

Video Technologies (NVIDIA Corporation, ATI Technologies, THX)

Sound Technologies (Dolby Digital, DTS, Chace Surround Sound)

Processor Technologies (Intel, AMD)

Middleware Technologies (PhysX, SpeedTree)

Game Engines (Vicious Engine)