"What's With All These Logos" [RANT!]

[Paul H. Rayton]

As a "bonus track" addition to Lyle's comments -- for those not so geologically familiar with the U.S. State of Florida, the highest point in the entire state is 345 feet (~105 meters), so there is some irony (or humor) about folks from Florida enjoying waterfalls! Whatever they got, they gotta be man-made!

[Marcel Birgelen]

The Disney logo has that river, and at some point the camera zooms past the water fall which is coming from...where? The castle? Did everyone flush the toilets in unison?

While you worry about Disney's castle plumbing and resulting waterfalls, I'm rather worried about those giant UNIVERSAL letters orbiting in low-earth orbit. Imagine what would happen if they'd burn out of fuel and would crash into the ground? That would be one extra mass-extinction event to cope with...

Down here in FL, the only way you get a waterfall in most of the state is if there is a pump involved in getting the water to the top.

I'm going to void my NDA here, but hey, believe it or not that's also how Disney's magical waterfalls work! At least those in the parks... Those in the movies are probably all toilet-driven, like Mike indicated.

Actually, the plumbing and water systems at most Disney parks are pretty well thought out. In order to avoid the water getting stale, there is a lot of pumping around involved. Maybe that also explains their obsession with moving water and waterfalls.

Edit: I think this is Mike's waterfall logo. If I see it correctly, there is still a river flowing through the castle, which probably is supposed to be the source of the waterfall. But I like the toilet-idea more, so I'm silently ignoring what I see here. It's also nice to see how they not just simultaneously flush the toilet, but also fire some random fireworks into the sky to celebrate toilet-flushing-day:

PS: This also reminds me of the Swedish waterfalls at Trollhättan. Those are dry all year round, with the exception of a few days a year, when they open the floodgates, just for the show of it... I guess those are the Toilet Flushing days... Also, somehow, to me, this gives Flushing Meadows in NYC a whole new meaning... despite the absence of any relevant waterfalls in the region...

[Bruce Cloutier]

As a "bonus track" addition to Lyle's comments -- for those not so geologically familiar with the U.S. State of Florida, the highest point in the entire state is 345 feet (~105 meters), so there is some irony (or humor) about folks from Florida enjoying waterfalls! Whatever they got, they gotta be man-made!

Um... Isn't that a landfill?

[Randy Stankey]

If you watch the clip closely, you'll see a waterfall on one side of the castle as the virtual camera flies up the cliff then goes over the castle. Then, when we come to the other side of the castle, there's a pool of water, presumably a river, on the other side.

That would account for the waterfall on the other side but, if you compare the volume of the waterfall to the pool/river it doesn't seem to match up unless the pool of water is infinitely deep. That still doesn't answer the question of how you get that much water to flow THROUGH a castle without flooding the whole ground floor or, worse, undermining the structure.

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."

Then, again... It IS the "Magic Kingdom." You can conjure up just about anything in the Magic Kingdom. Can't you?

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I've seen up to four different logos at the start of a movie, and once, by the time the third one hit the screen, viewers started laughing out loud. After the forth one was over they actually started cheering. That was better entertainment than the movie itself...

[Ryan Gallagher]

I've seen up to four different logos at the start of a movie, and once, by the time the third one hit the screen, viewers started laughing out loud. After the forth one was over they actually started cheering. That was better entertainment than the movie itself...

Personally, if they go there on the length, I'd rather it be the old-school pixar route, and actually make it content. Pixar used to even show true shorts ahead of their features. Probably one of the last studios to do that in the US with national releases, but i'm sure someone will correct me there. I'd love to read who else revived the shorts for a time.

Some of our summer films are selected/presented by a local film club, and they do show shorts from local film-makers. Sometimes a good fit, sometimes it is a bit of a stretch or they just didn't have enough to pick from.

Shorts is definitely an under-represented and under-appreciated format in the streaming landscape too. I know MUBI features shorts on the regular, but where would one even begin to look for them on the other major platforms? Netflix probably has a few... but do they have a category?

[Frank Cox]

Your mention of shorts reminds me of a lesson that I learned many years ago, before I had my own theatre.

There was special free admission show for Canada Day at the theatre I where I worked at the time. The manager (a good friend of mine) got a series of shorts from the National Film Board (a government agency that produces and distributes Canadian stuff) that they sent him for free. Three reels of shorts all strung together showed up a few days before the show was to be held but the manager just threw the can into the corner of the projection room and nobody paid any attention to it until the day of the free show.

I got the thing set up and threaded up before lunch and the show was to start right after lunch.

Filled the theatre with kids and parents and everyone else who wanted to see a free show.

Started it up, go through three or four shorts -- rah rah Canada and so forth, pretty much what you'd expect. Oodles of splices but nothing much of note.

Dum de dum.. hope this thing doesn't jump out of frame with all of these splices....

Then the next one starts and here's a bunch of naked men dancing around a flag.

*boggle*

That was the abrupt end of the free show.

There was an article in the next week's paper about it.

So, lesson learned (by me anyway). Never play something for the public where you're not sure of the content.

[Marcel Birgelen]

That was the abrupt end of the free show.

Yeah, the competition around you must have been not-so-very-amused, you're supposed to charge for such kind of content.

[Mike Blakesley]

Reminds me of the time I accidentally spliced in a red-band trailer onto a PG movie. Fortunately I caught it before too many F-bombs were dropped and was able to skip ahead past it. I never did that in the film days, thankfully!

[Marcel Birgelen]

Reminds me of the time I accidentally spliced in a red-band trailer onto a PG movie. Fortunately I caught it before too many F-bombs were dropped and was able to skip ahead past it. I never did that in the film days, thankfully!

Got the T-shirt... pull dowser, kill sound, raise house lights, stop projector... go in front of the audience, tell them that due to some technical problems, the movie starts a few minutes later...

At one place I worked, they showed the same pre-show at every show... I'm pretty sure you could be fined nowadays trying to pull that off. Interestingly, I can't really remember any complaints. I guess we've become much more sensitive over the years...