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| − | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=Roadshow+Films+%28Australia%29&version=77&savePath=%2Fpage%2FRoadshow%2BFilms%2B%2528Australia%2529&saveType=page"><font face="Arial" size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo descriptions by</font> <font color="#333333">OZ_Paramount87</font><br/><font color="#ffa500">Photos by </font><font color="#333333">OZ_Paramount87 and Jeffery1970</font><br/><font color="#ffa500">Video captures by</font><font color="#333333"> AussieRoadshow,</font> <font color="#333333">EnormousRat, wMlogos, and FLEMISHDOG</font></i><br/><br/><font color="#333333"><u>Background</u>: Roadshow Films was created by the owners of Village Cinemas in 1970 and has become a leading distributor in Australia. They are most notable for distributing classic Australian films in the 90s including <i>The Dish</i>, <i>Muriel's Wedding</i> and the Australian classic <i>The Castle</i>. Today, they distribute a number of films from different Hollywood studios as well as Australian productions.</font><br/><br/><br/></font><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">1st logo</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">(1971-1979)</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div align="center"><font size="3"><font color="#333333" face="Arial"> | + | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=Roadshow+Films+%28Australia%29&version=77&savePath=%2Fpage%2FRoadshow%2BFilms%2B%2528Australia%2529&saveType=page"><font face="Arial" size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo descriptions by</font> <font color="#333333">OZ_Paramount87</font><br/><font color="#ffa500">Photos by </font><font color="#333333">OZ_Paramount87 and Jeffery1970</font><br/><font color="#ffa500">Video captures by</font><font color="#333333"> AussieRoadshow,</font> <font color="#333333">EnormousRat, wMlogos, and FLEMISHDOG</font></i><br/><br/><font color="#333333"><u>Background</u>: Roadshow Films was created by the owners of Village Cinemas in 1970 and has become a leading distributor in Australia. They are most notable for distributing classic Australian films in the 90s including <i>The Dish</i>, <i>Muriel's Wedding</i> and the Australian classic <i>The Castle</i>. Today, they distribute a number of films from different Hollywood studios as well as Australian productions.</font><br/><br/><br/></font><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">1st logo</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">(1971-1979)</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div align="center"><font size="3"><font color="#333333" face="Arial">[[File:F4e670923bc7d9065300ffc51d89e5a2.jpeg|268px|A Film from Roadshow (1979)]]</font></font></div><div align="left"></div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font><div><font size="3"><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><u>Logo</u>: We diagonally zoom into a still satellite shot of Australia. Once we finish the zoom, "</font><font color="#333333" face="Times">A film from</font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">" zooms out in a </font><font color="#808080" face="Arial">white </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">serif font. Then "<b><i>Roadshow</i></b>", in a very strange </font><font color="#808080" face="Arial">white </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">font, zooms out below, followed by "</font><font color="#333333" face="Times">The Australian Company</font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">" in the same white serif font below that.</font></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Closing</u>: It only plays the last half of the logo. This would also be used for their television prints.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The camera zoom. The words zooming out.<br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A rising electronic piano theme, or else the opening theme of the film. For the television version it is usually the closing theme of the film.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Availability</u>: Extremely rare, considering that Roadshow rarely preserved its pre-1992 theatrical logos on home video. Turns up on the Umbrella Entertainment DVD of <i>The Love Epidemic</i> (part of an Ozplotation double feature with <i>High Rollin'</i>). It was also probably seen on the earliest prints of <i>Mad Max</i> and <i>The Wanderers</i> and also showed up on a 1985 Australian television broadcast of the latter. Other films where this might have appeared include <i>Beyond the Living Dead</i> (also known by such names as <i>Return of the Zombies</i>, <i>Terror of the Living Dead</i>, and <i>The Hanging Woman</i> elsewhere) and <i>Stone</i>.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">2nd logo</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3">(1979-1986)</font></div><div align="center"><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:3419e40e9f0396da1d6f3818234ab042.png|345px|Roadshow Films (1981) *16:9*]]<iframe frameborder="0" height="190" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/45637e924e2fa62a2aa26391641d685671dff70f" width="335"></iframe></font></div><div align="center"></div><div><font size="3"><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><u>Nicknames</u>: "Australian Outline", "Aussie Light Trails"<br/><br/><u>Logo</u>: On a space background, a </font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">blue </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">outline of Australia with the Tasmania island below zooms out from the bottom of the screen to the center with a "light trail" effect. "<b><i>Roadshow</i></b>", in a very strange </font><font color="#ffff00" face="Arial">yellow </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">font (the same font, in fact, as in the previous logo, but with more bold), appears via "scanning" effect in pieces shooting out from the Australia. The completed logo shines and reverses onto Australia and "</font><font color="#333333" face="Times">The Australian Company</font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">" appears in </font><font color="#ffff00" face="Arial">yellow </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">via a flashing effect below "<b><i>Roadshow</i></b>."</font></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The scanning, flashing, and zooming.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A calm synthesized horn and piano fanfare.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Extremely rare. Was seen in Australian cinemas during this time period. Has turned up on early Roadshow Home Video tapes of <i>Mad Max</i> and <i>Megaforce</i>, though most titles edited this logo out and went straight to the movie. Other films that had this logo in theatrical release include <i>First Blood</i>, <i>Scanners</i>, and <i>Gallipoli</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: The logo's effects are really nice for 1979, and its probably a favorite among Australian logo fans.<br/><br/><br/><br/>3rd Logo<br/>(1985-1992)</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div></div><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:2175e61aa9a1c6a778862470127f92da.png|273px|Roadshow (1987)]]<iframe frameborder="0" height="210" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/2e7bd4c79c3ce85687f575e979ec4abedcda1597" width="280"></iframe></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Nicknames</u>: "The Australian V of Doom", "Australian V from Hell", "Roadshow V's Dark Side", "Viacom's Australian Cousin"</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br/><font size="3"><u>Logo</u><font color="#333333">: On a black background, three stylized, separate, </font><font color="#ffff00">golden</font><font color="#ffff00"> </font><font color="#333333">"</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">"s are formed by </font><font color="#ffff00">yellow</font><font color="#ffff00"> </font><font color="#333333">flashing effects from the right side. Three more are formed, filling the gaps. The result is a giant "</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">", or a triangle comprised of six progressively smaller "</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">"s. The giant "</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">" zooms out a little, and the big glowing text "</font><b>ROADSHOW</b><font color="#333333">", in a </font><font color="#808080">white </font><font color="#333333">ITC Avant Garde Gothic font, slides in below the "</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">" and loses the glow. The "</font><b>V</b><font color="#333333">" shines, and </font><font color="#ffff00">yellow</font><font color="#ffff00"> </font><font><font color="#333333">"lasers" appear from the top-left and top-right corners of the screen and move below the text, forming "</font><b><font color="#ffff00">VILLAGE ROADSHOW CORPORATION</font></b><font color="#333333">" when they connect and disappear.</font></font></font></font></div></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The lasers drawing the "<b>V</b>", the glowing text moving and darkening, and the lasers moving and forming the text.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A very loud, dramatic synth stinger accompanied by a synthesized phasing sound and a laser sound.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" size="3"><br/><u>Availability</u><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: Extremely rare. Was only ever seen in Australian cinemas during this time period as VHS tapes cut the logo out and TV channels used the Roadshow Television logo. However it did appear on TV airings of </font><i>The Miami Connection</i><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> as late as 1997.</font><br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: This is </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">considered</font><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> to be the rarest Australian logo on the wiki. The Home Video variant is much easier to come across.</font></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><br/></font></div><div></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><font size="3"><br/></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><font size="3">4th Logo<br/>(1992-)</font><br/><br/></font><div align="center"> <font size="3"><font color="#333333" face="Arial">[[File:RXmE2KLFnhxfpARjx1ysw30688.jpeg|285px|Roadshow (1994)]][[File:Q7nBKBlVnRchHPxlWD5oyw287900.png|370px|Roadshow Films (2010)]][[File:528587930975f4dd0c513090f58e0947.jpeg|272px|Roadshow Films (2009)]]<br/></font><iframe frameborder="0" height="159" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/400ac2ce2c5220454ef4c87c798b413ac9b08af2" width="288"></iframe><iframe frameborder="0" height="160" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/37c6d5175f6713c37de17db39444decda7cdb85c" width="287"></iframe></font></div><div align="center"><font size="3"><br/></font><div align="left"> <font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><u>Logo</u>: A chrome curve comes from the right of screen. The curve then moves down, turning out to be the large "<b>V</b>", and several more segments appear. They all zoom back to reveal the logo same as before, but chrome. Underneath the word "<b>ROADSHOW</b>" along with a line separating the byline "<i>A VILLAGE ROADSHOW COMPANY</i>"</font></div><div align="left"><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><br/><u>Variant</u>: Around 2009, the text changed to just "ROADSHOW FILMS." No byline is present. There's also a more-realistic variant of this version.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The curve and segments moving and zooming back. "Roadshow" fading below.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A nice calm tune with an echoing 12-note electronic piano tune.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Common outside of America and Europe, as this is mainly seen in Australian and New Zealand cinemas. The first version is preserved on Fox Classics airings of <i>Muriel's Wedding</i>, the original theatrical trailer of <i>The Castle</i>, some prints of <i>The Dish</i> and strangely is found in place of the Roadshow Entertainment logo at the end of the 2002 Australian VHS release of <i>Cats & Dogs</i>. The second version is easier to find and can be found on recent Roadshow productions like <i>I Love You Too</i>, <i>The Cup</i> and most notably <i>Red Dog</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></div></div></div><br/></div> |
Revision as of 16:36, 3 November 2020
Logo descriptions by OZ_Paramount87
Photos by OZ_Paramount87 and Jeffery1970
Video captures by AussieRoadshow, EnormousRat, wMlogos, and FLEMISHDOG
Background: Roadshow Films was created by the owners of Village Cinemas in 1970 and has become a leading distributor in Australia. They are most notable for distributing classic Australian films in the 90s including The Dish, Muriel's Wedding and the Australian classic The Castle. Today, they distribute a number of films from different Hollywood studios as well as Australian productions.
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FX/SFX: The scanning, flashing, and zooming.
Music/Sounds: A calm synthesized horn and piano fanfare.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was seen in Australian cinemas during this time period. Has turned up on early Roadshow Home Video tapes of Mad Max and Megaforce, though most titles edited this logo out and went straight to the movie. Other films that had this logo in theatrical release include First Blood, Scanners, and Gallipoli.
Editor's Note: The logo's effects are really nice for 1979, and its probably a favorite among Australian logo fans.
3rd Logo
(1985-1992)
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Logo: On a black background, three stylized, separate, golden "V"s are formed by yellow flashing effects from the right side. Three more are formed, filling the gaps. The result is a giant "V", or a triangle comprised of six progressively smaller "V"s. The giant "V" zooms out a little, and the big glowing text "ROADSHOW", in a white ITC Avant Garde Gothic font, slides in below the "V" and loses the glow. The "V" shines, and yellow "lasers" appear from the top-left and top-right corners of the screen and move below the text, forming "VILLAGE ROADSHOW CORPORATION" when they connect and disappear.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was only ever seen in Australian cinemas during this time period as VHS tapes cut the logo out and TV channels used the Roadshow Television logo. However it did appear on TV airings of The Miami Connection as late as 1997.
Editor's Note: This is considered to be the rarest Australian logo on the wiki. The Home Video variant is much easier to come across.
Photos by OZ_Paramount87 and Jeffery1970
Video captures by AussieRoadshow, EnormousRat, wMlogos, and FLEMISHDOG
Background: Roadshow Films was created by the owners of Village Cinemas in 1970 and has become a leading distributor in Australia. They are most notable for distributing classic Australian films in the 90s including The Dish, Muriel's Wedding and the Australian classic The Castle. Today, they distribute a number of films from different Hollywood studios as well as Australian productions.
1st logo
(1971-1979)
Logo: We diagonally zoom into a still satellite shot of Australia. Once we finish the zoom, "A film from" zooms out in a white serif font. Then "Roadshow", in a very strange white font, zooms out below, followed by "The Australian Company" in the same white serif font below that.
Closing: It only plays the last half of the logo. This would also be used for their television prints.
FX/SFX: The camera zoom. The words zooming out.
Music/Sounds: A rising electronic piano theme, or else the opening theme of the film. For the television version it is usually the closing theme of the film.
Availability: Extremely rare, considering that Roadshow rarely preserved its pre-1992 theatrical logos on home video. Turns up on the Umbrella Entertainment DVD of The Love Epidemic (part of an Ozplotation double feature with High Rollin'). It was also probably seen on the earliest prints of Mad Max and The Wanderers and also showed up on a 1985 Australian television broadcast of the latter. Other films where this might have appeared include Beyond the Living Dead (also known by such names as Return of the Zombies, Terror of the Living Dead, and The Hanging Woman elsewhere) and Stone.
Editor's Note: None.
2nd logo
(1979-1986)
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Logo: On a space background, a blue outline of Australia with the Tasmania island below zooms out from the bottom of the screen to the center with a "light trail" effect. "Roadshow", in a very strange yellow font (the same font, in fact, as in the previous logo, but with more bold), appears via "scanning" effect in pieces shooting out from the Australia. The completed logo shines and reverses onto Australia and "The Australian Company" appears in yellow via a flashing effect below "Roadshow."
Logo: On a space background, a blue outline of Australia with the Tasmania island below zooms out from the bottom of the screen to the center with a "light trail" effect. "Roadshow", in a very strange yellow font (the same font, in fact, as in the previous logo, but with more bold), appears via "scanning" effect in pieces shooting out from the Australia. The completed logo shines and reverses onto Australia and "The Australian Company" appears in yellow via a flashing effect below "Roadshow."
FX/SFX: The scanning, flashing, and zooming.
Music/Sounds: A calm synthesized horn and piano fanfare.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was seen in Australian cinemas during this time period. Has turned up on early Roadshow Home Video tapes of Mad Max and Megaforce, though most titles edited this logo out and went straight to the movie. Other films that had this logo in theatrical release include First Blood, Scanners, and Gallipoli.
Editor's Note: The logo's effects are really nice for 1979, and its probably a favorite among Australian logo fans.
3rd Logo
(1985-1992)
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Logo: On a black background, three stylized, separate, golden "V"s are formed by yellow flashing effects from the right side. Three more are formed, filling the gaps. The result is a giant "V", or a triangle comprised of six progressively smaller "V"s. The giant "V" zooms out a little, and the big glowing text "ROADSHOW", in a white ITC Avant Garde Gothic font, slides in below the "V" and loses the glow. The "V" shines, and yellow "lasers" appear from the top-left and top-right corners of the screen and move below the text, forming "VILLAGE ROADSHOW CORPORATION" when they connect and disappear.
FX/SFX: The lasers drawing the "V", the glowing text moving and darkening, and the lasers moving and forming the text.
Music/Sounds: A very loud, dramatic synth stinger accompanied by a synthesized phasing sound and a laser sound.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was only ever seen in Australian cinemas during this time period as VHS tapes cut the logo out and TV channels used the Roadshow Television logo. However it did appear on TV airings of The Miami Connection as late as 1997.
Editor's Note: This is considered to be the rarest Australian logo on the wiki. The Home Video variant is much easier to come across.
4th Logo
(1992-)
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Variant: Around 2009, the text changed to just "ROADSHOW FILMS." No byline is present. There's also a more-realistic variant of this version.
FX/SFX: The curve and segments moving and zooming back. "Roadshow" fading below.
Music/Sounds: A nice calm tune with an echoing 12-note electronic piano tune.
Availability: Common outside of America and Europe, as this is mainly seen in Australian and New Zealand cinemas. The first version is preserved on Fox Classics airings of Muriel's Wedding, the original theatrical trailer of The Castle, some prints of The Dish and strangely is found in place of the Roadshow Entertainment logo at the end of the 2002 Australian VHS release of Cats & Dogs. The second version is easier to find and can be found on recent Roadshow productions like I Love You Too, The Cup and most notably Red Dog.
Editor's Note: None.
(1992-)
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Logo: A chrome curve comes from the right of screen. The curve then moves down, turning out to be the large "V", and several more segments appear. They all zoom back to reveal the logo same as before, but chrome. Underneath the word "ROADSHOW" along with a line separating the byline "A VILLAGE ROADSHOW COMPANY"
Variant: Around 2009, the text changed to just "ROADSHOW FILMS." No byline is present. There's also a more-realistic variant of this version.
FX/SFX: The curve and segments moving and zooming back. "Roadshow" fading below.
Music/Sounds: A nice calm tune with an echoing 12-note electronic piano tune.
Availability: Common outside of America and Europe, as this is mainly seen in Australian and New Zealand cinemas. The first version is preserved on Fox Classics airings of Muriel's Wedding, the original theatrical trailer of The Castle, some prints of The Dish and strangely is found in place of the Roadshow Entertainment logo at the end of the 2002 Australian VHS release of Cats & Dogs. The second version is easier to find and can be found on recent Roadshow productions like I Love You Too, The Cup and most notably Red Dog.
Editor's Note: None.