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Paul Adsett
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posted August 06, 2006 10:28 AM

I was doing some research on the web and found out that MGM employed 5 different Lion's over the years for their famous roaring lion logo. The MGM logo is certainly an American Icon, but so are most of the others. I really like the RKO Radio tower, and the Paramount mountain, and the Republic Eagle is very patriotic. But I would have to say that my favourite is the 20th Century Fox logo, particularly with the CinemaScope extension.
Today of course, the Lion's roar has been silenced now that MGM has been bought out by Sony. Still hard to believe, and very sad, that the Tiffany studio is owned by the Japanese. Still, as they say, MGM had one hell of a past which we can all still enjoy.

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Barry Attwood
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posted August 07, 2006 10:12 AM

Today it was reported in the U.K. papers that the last actor to portray the RANK man who banged the enormous gong at the front of all the Rank Film Distributors films had died, and I suppose this was the most notable British Film Studio/Distributor of all, and there have been 4 versions of this trademark opening over the years.

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Andrew Wilson
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posted August 07, 2006 10:57 AM

I am with you on the fox logo Paul.I also love the old UNIVERSAL
logo of the 30s and 40s.You know the glass globe effect.Andy.

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Chip Gelmini
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posted August 07, 2006 11:11 AM

I actually prefer when a standard logo is modified based on the movie being released. They do this just to get some laughs. Two times I remember....(1)Strange Brew a movie about buddies running a beer plant, the MGM lion burped instead of roared. In the Cannon Ball Run (I think), the spotlights in the Fox logo were intterrupted by cars chasing each other.

However, I agree with Paul the cinemascope extended Fox Logo is a true Gem. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that on the first 2 Die Hard movies, they actually used flat versions of this logo on the scope release prints? By the third installment they got it right.

CG

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Joerg Polzfusz
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posted August 07, 2006 11:54 AM

Hi,

I like the lion-vampire-"morphing" in the MGM-logo in Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killer(s?)" [Smile]

Jörg

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Gary Crawford
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posted August 07, 2006 03:33 PM

And of course, if you see the preview trailer for the Marx Brothers Night at the Opera, you'll see each of the brothers in the place where the MGM lion would go, groucho and chico roaring like the lion...and Harpo just honking his little horn. I understand they actually planned on using this opening for the film itself, but faced some opposition to it so they used it in the trailer instead.

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Mal Brake
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posted August 07, 2006 04:49 PM

Carrying on with the modified logo theme, at the end of Columbia's Joan Crawford axe-muderer shocker,'Straitjacket', the Columbia lady with the torch is headless.
In 'The Mouse That Roared' the Peter Sellers comedy, the normally serene Columbia lady hitches her dress and runs away when a mouse approaches her.
The Fox logo at the start of the colour/scope comedy'Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines' is in 1.33 format, black and white and the fanfare is played on a honky tonk piano
Mal

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