Favorite Logos

Sit Ubu, sit.

When I was a kid I always thought they were saying, “Sit, [bold]Boo Boo[/bold], sit.” Wasn’t until I saw it in writing that I found out it was Ubu.

You too, R2?

To answer OP’s question, I liked the Starry Night production logo (preferably without the laugh).

Slightly off topic: was anyone here afraid of Viacom’s “V of Doom”? I keep reading about that logo scared people when they were kids.

The V of Doom, for reference.

When the AI logo appeared onscreen, you always knew you were in for something special. Like The Thing with Two Heads.

Who knew then this wouldn't always be here?

Here, Toots.

Great tacky TV logo from the 1960s. Remember which shows were produced by United Artists?

Two for one here. The Rank Organization man made me tingle as a baby gay. I always wanted the camera to stay on him a bit longer. The Archers logo meant you were in for something special, like "Black Narcissus" or "A Matter of Life and Death".

The Columbia logo on Joan Crawford classic "Strait Jacket" was pretty awesome:

And the "Cat Ballou" one was fun too:

This has been a Filmways presentation, darling.

R12 and R13? Thanks for that! Especially darling Eva, I'd almost forgotten.

The RKO Radio tower, bleeping to the opening of Beethoven's Fifth.

And finally...

Could you have imagined ever missing the 1980s?

The RKO ident spells out VVVV AN RKO RADIO PICTURE VVVV in Morse Code. The code for V is dit dit dit dah, and the string of repeated Vs means "attention".

r8 The Patty Duke Show, for one.

Why are we limiting this to TV and movie logos?

By the way, what is the correct name for these things? Production tag? Studio identification? What is the correct word for these?

An ugly one but it reminds of beings a little kid. The voiceover said "brought to you by Screen Gems". As a kid, I thought they were saying "Brock to you by...". A mystery for all my childhood.

"The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC" from1962.

R18: As a long time amateur radio license holder who got my Extra class license when you had to do element 1C the 20WPM code copy I was sounding out the RKO bit in morse in my head.

CBS

IN COLOR!

The dancing sticks

R20, there are no limits here, bring it, bring what you got.a

I myself have always fancied Mr. Peanut and Mr. Clean, imagining them in a wig fight.

The NBC snake

R18 That is my absolute favorite studio ident from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

R21 they are referred to as idents on Wikipedia.

I always liked the Universal-International ident, as well.

OP thanks our scholar at r29, much obliged.

There are so many I like.

But the Jolly Green Giant? HE is my man.

Not an entertainment ident or logo, but my favorite logo of all time was for a regional department store where I grew up, J.B. White.

Speaking of department stores -- Lord and Taylor used to have classy script and semi-script logos; they just unveiled their new one, and it looks like something from a discounter. Tacky and boring.

Thanks Gap Playlist Guy, noted.

R33 Yes it is horrible, reminds me of what Belk did a few years ago. I don't understand swapping out something elegant and classy for these "modern" logos which are not distinctive and will look out of date in a few years.

Sorry link didn't work at R36.

The Lady at r11 is decapitated, sir, decapitated!

Does the Monday Morning Moos guy have a logo?

LOVED the atomic age "Revue Studios" logo.

R23 love that, much better than the short version they still played in the early 70s, which I remember seeing

From Britain, Thames Television...

GAP's 2010 new logo was a disaster and the company quickly reverted to the classic GAP logo.

Another British TV theme, for London Weekend

Gracie Films

Universal TV ident, 1963. I think this came after the Revue logo R40 posted.

Then Universal switched to the planet logo, but kept the same music.

I miss the Kaufmann's logo.

Another old British 'telly' theme

Monogram Pictures, trying not to look like the little Poverty Row studio it was.

This was from the 1980s show Thirtysomething. It's from the song "Buffalo gal won't you come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight? Buffalo gal won't you come out tonight and dance by the light of the moon?"

One night, after this logo played, my mom sang "annnnnd dance by the light raccoon," referring to a small, stuffed, toy raccoon that was sitting near the tv. She and I laughed hard at her unexpected absurdity and we sometimes still sing the altered jingle.

Emporium stores in the SF Bay Area had a great a logo on their buildings, bags, boxes etc...

I love the unusual Universal logo Hitchcock used in The Birds. For some reason it looks really creepy.

Department store logos?

There's only one...

So deliciously tacky with the ghostly chorus and 80s sax outro

Remember NBC's ill-fated trapezoid "N"?

The Universal logo with the little airplane circling the globe (early-mid1930s) was charming. You only heard the sound of the aircraft engine. That was replaced by the globe with the glittery stars and a brassy fanfare.

I worked at a General Cinema movie theater in high school. The music for their Feature Presentation would get stuck in my head for days. This is the 1980s version.

This one

You knew something good was coming,.,

Paramount

I second that R42. I like the slightly grimy sound of the accompanying jingle, too.

The old "Tri-Star" intro is another:

Dreamworks intro is another:

The intro of "Super 8" reminds me of why I lament that full orchestral scores have gone out of style.

Orion pictures, RIP. For Silence of the Lambs, it started with the creepy music right away.

NBC's infamous "Proud as a Peacock" re-branding (when they reintroduced the peacock emblem) had two good parodies: people at NBC affiliates, fed up with the show being in last place, did a "We're loud!" (rather than "We're proud") number, but the funniest was the SNL parody: "NBC... Smart as a Peacock!"

Still!

This is a real logo for the Catholic Church's Youth Commission. It even won a design award.

Institute of Oriental Studies. For real.

Always hot.

70's era Warner Brothers. Saul Bass design.

Mimsie the cat after the St. Elsewhere finale.

Billy Wells the gong man for the Rank Organisation

Both R70 and R73 : Yes!

I always liked Stephen J Cannell productions. I think this was on after Spenser.

A lot here

I always loved this one

Best. TV. Production. Company. Ever.

Growing up in NYC, and after watching “The Edge of Night”, there was always the 4:30 movie. I really liked their theme weeks.

The Rankin Bass ident means Christmas!

Anything in Peignot.

I've always loved what Steven Spielrock did with the Univershell logo in the Flintstones movie from my childhood. This is also the only Elizabeth Taylor movie I've ever seen.

Possibly the world's most famous log, unchanged for over 100 years.