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Louis Bornwasser
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posted 06-22-2011 09:01 PM

I have a test film (Fox provided) that has various channels and frequencies, then, at the end, a pristine Fox logo and audio. This is 70mm Dolby and has the conductor counting down ahead of the kettle drum. Louis

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Victor Liorentas
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posted 06-22-2011 09:07 PM

On the Star Wars prequels,the opening theme music is much lower in volume than the originals which hurt the impact of the title Star Wars popping up on screen!

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James Westbrook
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posted 06-23-2011 01:51 AM

Of the Universal intros I like the 75th Anniversary the best. It was so good, they had to toss it in 97 and open it with the "oh look...the Earth is on fire" one.
I recall when Mystery Science Theater 3000 started airing on the Sci Fi channel, Crow made flippant comments about the Universal-International intro along the likes of "The weather was really nice that day" to "The earth has male-pattern baldness."

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Monte L Fullmer
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posted 06-23-2011 04:11 AM

I remember when Columbia, in 1977 took away the "Columbia Statue" trademark and went with the sunburst one.

That lasted for about a couple of years, then brought her back but without the 3D "Columbia" lettering to begin the flame burst of her touch to fade in for the newer sunburst trademark.

It was great to see her return, but still an insult to the trademark of old.

The recent Columbia trademark is a close second to the original.

Also, as for special trademarks was with Paramount's red sky background usage for "The Ten Commandents" (and seeing the "F" aperture marks for framing every couple of seconds during the beginning of each reel) instead of the typical blue sky surrounding the Paramount mountain of their other films during this era.

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Jesse Skeen
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posted 06-23-2011 04:25 AM

quote: Joe Redifer
I hate Universal's logo because you are forced to watch it twice on any shitty Blu-ray they put out.

Their HD-DVDs are even better, since when starting the disc they force you to watch their opening logo with a big "HD-DVD" logo flying out afterwards. Makes you want to go "Yay! The format that lost!"

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Richard P. May
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posted 06-23-2011 09:44 AM

From my early days of appreciating such things, the Fox fanfare has been both the most impressive and automatically identifies the company.
Early this week, at the Hollywood SMPTE meeting, we used a clip of the first five minutes of CRASH DIVE (1943 - Technicolor), and for the first time ever I noticed the brush strokes on the painting of the logo.
As to Warner Bros., I'd like to see them go back to the "Steiner" fanfare, used on CASABLANCA and numerous pictures from the early 1940s up to the wide screen era. Again, it automatically identified the company with a strong piece of music.

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Aaron Garman
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posted 06-23-2011 11:13 AM

I've found the Fox Searchlight logo usually has more "oomph" than the normal 20th Century Fox logo.

Anyone remember this short lived one:

Phone Home

AJG

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Hillary Charles
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posted 06-23-2011 03:40 PM

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quote: Robert E. Allen
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Fox has and always has had (especially during the CinemaScope years) the classiest logo.

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... thanx to Alfred Newman who composed the fanfare for it in 1933 after "20th Century Pictures" bought out "Fox Pictures, and with 20th Century Pictures was a lot stronger than FOX is why "20th Century" was at the beginning of the trademark,and why of the hyphen .. "20th Century-Fox" - in the descriptive title until 1985 when the hyphen was dropped.

Interesting though, the fanfare wasn't used for "the Robe" - but then heard with the CinemaScope extention in "How to Marry a Millionaire' in 1954.

I have "Millionaire" on laserdisc, but my player isn't working right now. However, unless my memory is failing me (which is entirely possible), that movie goes directly from the traditional Fox fanfare to the performance of Alfred Newman's orchestral piece, "Street Scene." Even Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef doesn't have the CinemaScope extension. I read a claim that the extension was first used on 1954's River of No Return, which is the earliest version I've ever seen.

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Manny Knowles
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posted 06-24-2011 01:53 AM

I remember the ET anniversary logo for Universal [Smile]

I preferred the Universal logo that appears on Apollo 13 and Jurassic Park tho. No studio "theme" but a better logo animation in my opinion.

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Aaron Garman
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posted 06-24-2011 03:18 AM

I always liked that animation too. Apollo 13's was awesome too because of that drum solo and then the horns. For a James Horner score, it was good.

By the way, don't know what film this was in front of, but damn, Warner needs to use this music.

Warner Brothers

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Joe Redifer
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posted 06-24-2011 04:54 AM

Agreed on the Universal logo from Apollo 13/Jurassic Park et al. Not obtrusive at all and not super flashy IN YO FACE. The director can put sounds from the movie or the score under it and it becomes PART of the movie, not just a loud, annoying snipe in front of it.

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Damien Taylor
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posted 06-24-2011 07:46 AM

The Paramount fanfare is one of the rarest to play with it's logo, which is unfortunate as it's rather nice

I also enjoy the New Line fanfare, it's simple yet powerful.

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Bruce McGee
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posted 06-24-2011 09:50 AM

How about the old pre-Sony Tri-Star logo with the flying horse using the brassy music on the soundtrack? I liked that one.

Like the others said, the TCF logo with the cinemascope extension is the absolute favorite musically.

The late 1930's Universal logo with the twirling stars is the snazziest looking one!

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Hillary Charles
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posted 06-24-2011 10:37 AM

Bruce, it's like you're reading my mind! I agree with you on every one of those, and wrote as much on a different site. [Smile]

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Sean Weitzel
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posted 06-24-2011 10:47 AM

Since this thread has turned into "post your favorite fanfares" here are a few older ones that I've enjoyed in the past

United Artists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9zG0m_JuE
MGM/United Artists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKEBpf8-HA
Cannon Films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obrTE73bUYU
Tri Star:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzgrY8WrH0
Carolco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdm5KpW9sk8
and while not quite a fanfare, this one is for John Wilson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F249ib1bzOY

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