http://www.closinglogos.com/index.php?title=Largo_Entertainment&feed=atom&action=historyLargo Entertainment - Revision history2024-03-29T12:27:32ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1http://www.closinglogos.com/index.php?title=Largo_Entertainment&diff=26762&oldid=prevTravis: Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><font size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo description and captures by</font> Logophile and CuriousGeorge60<br/><font color="#ffa500">Editio..."2020-11-05T12:41:26Z<p>Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><font size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo description and captures by</font> Logophile and CuriousGeorge60<br/><font color="#ffa500">Editio..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><div class="WPC-editableContent"><font size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo description and captures by</font> Logophile and CuriousGeorge60<br/><font color="#ffa500">Editions by <font color="#333333">thehugetvfan and Shadeed A. Kelly</font></font><br/></i><i><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ffa500">Video captures courtesy of</font> retro vhs trailers and DecadesMTS 2002 Video Vault</font></font></i><br/><br/><br/><u>Background</u>: Largo Entertainment was a production company founded in 1989. It was ran by movie producers and brothers <b>La</b>w<b>r</b>ence and Charles <b>Go</b>rdon and was backed by Japanese electronics firm JVC/Victor in an investment that cost more than $100 million. The production company released their first film, <i>Point Break</i>, in 1991. In 1992, they formed "Largo International N.V.", a short-lived international division of Largo Entertainment that was established shortly after Largo itself was founded. Largo went out of business in 1999, and their film library was acquired by [[InterMedia Films|InterMedia]] in 2001. [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] holds video rights to most of the InterMedia-owned Largo Entertainment library, with a few exceptions.<br/><br/><br/>(July 12, 1991-September 10, 1999)</font><br/><font size="3"> </font><div><div align="center"> <font size="3">[[File:IWezmCmz 19R6hYs8MXXvQ77492.png|397px|Largo]][[File:LTVCtH6I71SxqMK8VGFSHQ226599.png|230px|Largo International N.V. (1992)]]</font></div><div align="center"><iframe frameborder="0" height="177" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/unknown/2f57ef55f83211f42ae9e0c6d16ba7a00620a349" width="257"></iframe><iframe frameborder="0" height="179" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/unknown/aaf5b1ca294aab7ee21e4de96281bd0c3b4812b4" width="244"></iframe></div><font size="3"><u>Logo</u>: On a black background, a <font color="#ff0000">red</font> line scrolls down. As it does this, the word "<font face="Times"><b>LARGO</b></font>" rises up. They both rest in the middle of the screen. Then the word "<font face="Times">ENTERTAINMENT</font>" crawls down from below the <font color="#ff0000">red</font> line and stops. Then the byline "IN ASSOCIATION WITH JVC ENTERTAINMENT, INC." with the <b><font color="#ff0000">JVC</font></b> logo in its corporate font, between "WITH" and "JVC" fades in below.<br/><br/><u>Variants</u>: <br/></font><ul><li><font size="3">From February 7-November 18, 1992, the word "<font face="Times">ENTERTAINMENT</font>" is replaced with the words "<font face="Times">INTERNATIONAL N.V.</font>" on international prints of some films.</font></li><li><font size="3">A still version of this logo was seen at the end credits of <i>John Carpenter's Vampires</i>.<br/></font></li></ul><font size="3"><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The red line, the "LARGO" rising, "ENTERTAINMENT" crawling down, and the appearance of the JVC byline.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A synthesized theme with jingles throughout the piece. Sometimes, the opening theme of the movie is heard.</font><br/><font size="3"><font size="3"><br/><u>Music/Sounds Variant</u>: On one (possibly non-USA) print of <i>This World, Then the Fireworks</i>, you can actually hear the [[Orion Pictures]] jingle in the background (its [[Orion Classics|Classics]] division released it in the United States).<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Rare. Seen on films from Largo Entertainment such as <i>Point Break</i>, <i>The Super</i>, <i>Dr. Giggles, Judgment Night</i>, <i>Timecop</i>, <i>The Getaway</i> (the 1994 remake starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger), <i>Mulholland Falls</i>, <i>Omega Doom</i>, <i>Adrenalin: Fear the Rush</i>, <i>Meet Wally Sparks</i> and <i>John Carpenter's Vampires</i>. On current prints of some of these, with examples being <i>Timecop</i> and films on double feature DVDs by [[Warner Home Video]], this is replaced by the current InterMedia logo but leaves the original distributors logo (the 1981 [[20th Century Fox Film Corporation|20th Century Fox]] and 1991 [[Universal Pictures]] logos, for example) intact; thus, resulting in the most unusual logo combos ever. The "<font face="Times">INTERNATIONAL N.V.</font>" variant was seen on international prints of <i>Malcolm X</i>. The last film to use this logo was <i>Grey Owl</i>, starring Pierce Brosnan.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></font></div><br/></div></div>Travis