Copy and Paste

How many logos from B-Movies or Asian movies have you seen? And how many did resemble any logo from Warner, Columbia, Universal, Paramount or Fox? There were many production companies which had a logo parodied from another from a major studio. I’m going to talk about some of them.

Fine Arts Pictures was a little B-Movie production company from the 30’s. Their logo was a ripoff of the 20th Centry Fox logo, without searchlights, and set over a huge pyramid.
Nassour Studios had the same, but the lettering was set over some buildings and did have searchlights, also had a fanfare very similar to the Fox’s one.
IFD Films and Arts was a Hong Kong film producer, which produced movies such as “Golden Ninja Warrior“, which ident on screen was… A TORCH GENTLEMAN! Yes, we started on a black background (everything is real action), and we see a man having weird white clothing and handing on his right hand a big lamp (of course, the lamp was on…) over some rocks. Some smoke was seen at the background. The music was a very recognizable piece of music that appeared on “Star Wars” when Darth Vader was going to do something.
Shaw Brothers Pictures: A production comapny from Hong Kong that had a logo design very (and I mean very) similar to the one from Warner Bros, minus the ring WB’s has, and the lettering isn’t too fancy to fit on the shield…
Producers Releasing Corporation also had their logo on Fox Style, but without searchlights (the similarity might be so obvious if the logo had searchlights).
Eagle 6 was a Dutch video distributor, and had EXACTLY the same logo as American National Enterprises, footage of an eagle flying and so one…Only having “AMERCIAN NATIONAL ENTERPRISES” replaced by a ghostly “EAGLE 6″ zooming banner.
Filmex was a mexican film production company. Their logo was a mix between the Fox logo and the Universal one. They had a globe rotating over the word “FILMEX” (on Fox style), under it the words “presenta” shining. There was also a Hong Kong movie producer whose logo was the searchlights from FOX, and the ring of stars of Paramount combined! So weird…

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Eric S.

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True Logo Rarities

Every true logo fan know what’s a logo rarity. If I mention “PolyGram Television (1982)”; “Rick Reinert Pictures”, or “CBS Films” all of you will know the concept of what a logo rarity is: something really unseen on TV and hard to find on Home Video Markets… IIn this post I’m going to talk about 3 rare logos: Republic Pictures Distribution, Screen Gems Film Production, and CBS Theatrical Films logos.

First of all, I would like to talk of the Republic Pictures Distribution logo of the 80’s. This is really a thought one. It’s only the 80’s Republic Eagle, with the text “REPUBLIC PICTURES” in a Times New Roman Font, also at the left of the logo is (obviously) the Trademark Symbol. Above the letters, “Distributed by”, in the same Times New Roman-like font is seen. This logo appeared on the now extinct-from-TV syndicated prints of episodes of Press Your Luck. If you’re lucky to have taped this logo from an episode of Press Your Luck when this program was on the air, you’ll have the opportunity to have this logo.

Another rarity is the Screen Gems TV Tube logo. The logo is pretty simple, just a TV Tube with the words “A Screen Gems Film Production (Presentation), and some “stars” or gems shining on the screen. It is seen at the end of Classic Shows from Screen Gems at tapes, as you may know. New DVDs of those shows have either another Screen Gems logo (The Torch Lady or the S From Hell), the Columbia Pictures Television Distribution logo (in B&W), and most of them, the Sony Pictures Television logo (tinted in B&W, also). The best source for this logo are VHS episodes of Jungle Jim (Some of them would have the Coca-Cola Torch Lady, the Colex or the LBS logo), or Ford Theatre. Father Knows Best is more likely to have this logo plastered. The last example of logo rarity today I’m talking is the CBS Theatrical Films. This logo is awesome, actually. Two lines crashes and generates a big-bang of stars, then we see tree stars, and “CBS” zooms out. The logo shines. CBS Theatrical Films only produced four films, and this logo is still preserved on those films, but the films seems today hard to find, but if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find a DVD copy of this logo.

Eric S.

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