Comments on: The idents of cinema: The big six studios.

By: desbest

desbest — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:53:34 +0000

I love the Dreamworks one the best. I wish they never sold to Paramount Pictures.

The reason why Disney movies have become so bad recently because the 3 founds of Dreamworks SKG (Spielberg and 2 othes), stopped working for Disney and setup Dreamworks. The K person was a studio chairman for Walt Disney Pictures.

Dreamworks make the best movies. They have the consistency and quality control.

By: Chowchillah

Chowchillah — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:59:02 +0000

Despite my hatred of Disney, their logo is magnificent and one of the most beautiful logos I’ve ever seen.

By: Yoshi

Yoshi — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:27:05 +0000

The Audio is worse on Paramount’s Video!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:22:17 +0000

I really like the ident for Hopscotch Films here in Australia, with the neon sign on a stand. I’d love to see that ident posted to Idents.tv

By: Paul Wade

Paul Wade — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:26:33 +0000

What I like about Warner Bros is how they often integrate the logo into the start of the movie changing it’s design to fit the movie design too. I can’t think of many examples at the mo but I’m sure they did it for Batman (??)….a post of all the customised WB intros would be cool.

By: Cindy Wan

Cindy Wan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:12:38 +0000

Good collection, but was wondering why the Warner Bros. logo was silent, as for the past few years, “As Time Goes By” music is used with it (sometimes). I do like the Disney one; it seems to be the most updated one, but nothing beats the 20th Century Fox fanfare music. And have you noticed that some directors have resorted to using older versions of them for “period movies”, like David Fincher’s “Zodiac” and the new “Indiana Jones” both use older versions of Paramount’s mountain logo, plus the Lucasfilm logo appears before the Paramount logo in the latter to accomodate the transition from logo mountain to movie mountain (well, the prairie dog thingy).
By the way, anyone know if the Universal one uses music by James Horner (he of “Titanic” fame)? I think the previous version, the one with the sunrise, used music by John Williams (he of “Star Wars” and “Indy” fame).
How about some of the smaller companies, like New Line, the now defunct Orion, etc?
Anyway, thanks for posting these!

By: David Cruz

David Cruz — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:15:56 +0000

Fun fact: Pixar (owned by Disney) didn’t create the new Disney animated intro. This credit goes to the folks at Weta Digital, the home of “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy.

I prefer the new 2004 United Artists intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGfgnb5P9I

By: David Robertson

David Robertson — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:14:37 +0000

I’ve always loved movie logos, especially when they’re modified to fit a certain movie.

The current Warner Bros and Walt Disney logos are my favourites. They both have brilliant music (especially the Disney one) and just looking at them, you know that they will be remembered for years to come.

BTW, the Warner Bros logo has their own music for it. Here’s the link for it: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDRoOIK780

By: whoiam

whoiam — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:06:25 +0000

Also, are there the logos of Disney, Paramount and Universal in the Panavision aspect ratio?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:15:30 +0000

I remember the old thx intros neever seen these days. I LOVE the simpsons parody, I cry lauging every time I see it http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-FOle6E5c&feature=related

By: whoiam

whoiam — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:09:02 +0000

All videos here are high pitched. And I think Columbia and WB has their own jingle.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Perhaps you should also have a look at the verious Dolby Digital ident’s, there are quite a few. Although it isn’t seen much anymore remember those THQ ones in the movies at the start, I recall one with a cow doing something (was a long time ago) and of cource the Simpsons take off of that with people’s heads exploding.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:29:02 +0000

The Disney ident is probably the best ident produced in recent years. I love movie logos, I always make a point of paying special attention to it when I’m at the movies och watching a DVD

I’d like to share two of my favourite European cinema idents:

Pathé: http://youtube.com/watch?v=J9jBA-tZ7tU
Its not very dramatic, yet still has a certain magic to it that new logos rarely have.

Svensk Filmindustri: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDMT2I9vmE4
Maybe I like this because of nostalgia, but it has a very dramatic feeling to it.

By: Ornsack

Ornsack — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:26:41 +0000

Excellent post! Shame the real music wasn’t on certain idents, and a shame Paramount don’t have a dedicated score on theirs.

The Disney one seems to be my favourite modern ident. A friend of mine made me laugh out loud in the cinema once when he claimed it should end with Walt Disney popping out from behind the castle and shout “I hate Jews!”

Worst ident is probably the Universal one. It looks a bit dated. You don’t really see it much in the cinemas these days though do you?

My favourite movie logo is probably the Universal logo prior to the current one (the full motion, fully scored version). Debuted on Back to the Future Part 3 I do believe

By: Dynamo_ace

Dynamo_ace — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:19:12 +0000

I used to enjoy the intro logos, until they stepped up their constant dissing of customers.

Now i see them as nothing than a charade.

By: Melissa Adkins

Melissa Adkins — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:52:43 +0000

I love you :3
you should post the disney one made for the first pixar pictures (I like that one better)

and yes, nothing like the fox theme…

By: Niko

Niko — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:17:49 +0000

I do agree with your observations on Pixar’s – it’s quirky and reflects a lot about their personality as a film outfit.

By: Andy OZ

Andy OZ — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:41:48 +0000

Despite my hatred of Fox, because of who owns it, their music is easily the most dramatic.

Having said that, the WB one has the most tension and atmosphere to it…maybe cos they tend to make more ‘edgy’ films? (or maybe that’s just the ones i watch)….you certainly don’t get that from Disney!