@raposofan It's called classical conditioning. Childhood: Pair the logo music (unconditioned stimulus) with the warm happy feelings of childhood (unconditioned response) experienced at the time you listened to the music. Adult: a conditioned response (emotional reaction - happy/wistful/sad) occurs when you hear the same logo as an adult (logo music now is a conditioned stimulus).
Holy crap I had so many chils watching intros from my childhood. Especially that CBS Special logo! Whenever that was on it was usually during the holidays watching Charlie Brown or Frosty or Rudolph. *memories*
I appreciate how this was edited and created. Be As a child these little blips of creativity really stood out for me growing up... Probably why I became a graphic artist.
I don't know if all of these count as futuristic, but the ones that do are wonderful. Those beautiful synths and simple, satisfying images are so audio-visually catchy it makes you want a music video of them. Oh yeah, Justice already did that with their wicked awesome video for DVNO!
For me, the WGBH Boston logo was usually followed by something that the teacher would tape at home, and then make us watch the next day. Those could be pretty excruciating!
as i come to find, around the holidays sometimes, a boston radio station, WROR 105.7, during the holiday format, uses the rankin bass logo jingle 70's during the legal ID
Fuuuuuuuuck dude, scroll through to 1:06!!!! I've been googling "spinning star/ old tv spinning start/...etc" trying to look for this freakin tv logo, and I FOUND IT! This Hanna-Barbara logo is one of those that never left my mind. Something about the sound and that star. VERY NICE FIND!
It's funny to think that something like movie/television logos are remembered and cherished by people my age. Now a days there are no ending credits and animated logos. Damn you Credi Squeeze!!!
Man, I remember being so scared of the Columbia Pictures logos when I was young. The Closet Killer Paramount logo wasn't very nice to me either, same with Walt Disney Home Video (outline Mickey is mad creepy) and Stephen J. Cannell (I hated that C.) However, I STILL love me some "Sit, Ubu, Sit!" I loved that dog, always came on at the end of Cheers!
jefftimesten, I don't know how you found the Channel 7 Saturday Afternoon Movie, that I use to watch a long time ago in Gary, but that brings back a lot of memories. I was looking for that one for a long time since I noticed UA-cam. I mainly watched the late night version but again thanks for bring that back!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to love the Hanna-Barbera star logo, but for some reason I conflate it in my head with the typewriter one. I also remember that my brother and I always had to say the name of the company before it showed up on screen. Talk about successful branding!
Awesome compilation! So many memorable ones here. The Rankin-Bass signature always came at the end of those clay-animated Christmas specials (Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, etc.). My local CBS station was owned by Group W (Westinghouse) back in the 70s and 80s when they were an NBC affiliate (WBZ-TV Channel 4 in Boston). The WGBH Boston signature always came on before ZOOM. Thanks for posting!
When I was realy young (about 6 or 7) my mind was convinced that the ITC spinning geometric shape was a real thing that existed somewhere. I was also convinced that the 20th Century Fox logo with beacons was a place I could go to! The Rankin-Bass here with the jerky quality makes it even more scary! Same for S from Hell Screen Gems! Good collection!!
Where did the MK12 logo came from? An excerpt of an article on Wikipedia: MK12 Studios is a filmmaking and design collective with over a dozen award-winning short films to its credit. Their approach to filmmaking and animation is experimental and holistic, blending live action, traditional and CGI animation, nostalgic influence and new technologies to define their own unique brand of storytelling. EDIT: Finally got the answer. It's from Ultralove Ninja.
Man, was Raymond Scott right, little electronic noise logos that would immediately stick in a persons head. If you're interested in retro-future, synth music, and/or electronic noise, pick up his compilation "Manhattan Research".
I felt all the feelings I felt when I first saw these (The ones I saw in my lifetime, anyway). I still think outline Mickey is freaky, and the tone for WGBH used to scare me- but I don't think we had those same letters. And whatever I used to watch that had the Rankin Bass logo I must have enjoyed it, based on my emotions :/
u cuda also put the G4 ch. one that they play during comercials of the movie that i guese r no good...the one that goes "movie that dont suck"its got a retro feel to it also.
I remember about half of these (or more), and I've never even lived in the states (but in Australia) :) Thank God for imported TV for daytime programming in the 80s.
That spinning CBS Special logo with the drums! We'd RUN for the TV because we knew Charlie Brown or whatever we were waiting for was starting! No pause button in those days...had to go to the bathroom fast or you'd MISS the beginning.
I think one reason the CBS Special Presentation logo is remembered by so many is CBS seemed to keep it past its 'sell by' date. It looked dated in later years but it stayed. Maybe they kept it on for nostalgic reasons. Anyway, fantastic stuff! Thanks
To the person who asked, the UBU logo was on after "Family Ties," but I don't remember what other shows had it, though I believe I remember seeing it after some early sitcom on FOX. "Duet" I think it was.
had afew dreams about these, first one was that I had a show on tv with my own custom logo, and had enough money to get more shows and get the famous logo companies back in buisiness
You have to thank Douglas Trumbull and Stanley Kubrick for these "Slit-Scan" type motion graphics. After "2001: A Space Odyssey"'s Stargate sequence hit the screens everybody's Idea of opening bumber's and Idents changed ABC's movie of the week was the first to actually use it. Trumbull himself did the sequence for that one. Good clips!
I had the commedy live action, and cartoon series. I had a list of companies I dreamed I worked with. DIC, 2015, program exchange LBS and CPT as well. there was no chance that the v of doom was gonna be there
Man those bring back memories. My favorite is the CBS Special one.. I remembered seeing this as a kid and automatically knowing it was the Charlie Brown special - in other words, a CARTOON(!!) on PRIME TIME TV(!!!!) (that was huge if you were a child in the late 70's/early 80's).
This is bringing back some memories! Thanks for the time put into it. Very much appreciated
I love Ubu. Such a good dog.
I remember the CTW and PBS from Sesame Street back in the 90s! Great collection!
I love these graphics. Stunningly simple, aesthetically painful. Love it.
Your choice is FIVE!
Man I love that jingle
This certainly brings back alot of memories.
@2:42-2:48 -the most exciting thing a child of the '70s could ever hear!
haha yep usually it was a Charlie Brown cartoon
They were using it into the mid 80s I think.
Oh yes!
Or the first appearance of Boba Fett.
Or nye special
My favorite part of every show. Thanks!
Toonsmyth Productions hello! Is your avatar supposed to be a Mickey Mouse-style Johnny Vegas?
The "spinning cameraman" of WABC, Channel 7, for the various movie shows in the 70s and 80s... rock on, dude!
Fond memories of the Children's Television Workshop, thank you for posting this.
CBS Special Presentation had me in complete awe excelllent compilation
im glad someone else shares my love of these!
The old CBS "Special Presentation" bumper at 2:43 has gotta be one of my all-time favorite logos ever. I remember it from my childhood.
Wow. The visceral reaction this brought up was amazing.
This is the video that got me hooked on logos from the start. Thank you so much for changing my life in this regard!
I absolutely love this stuff.
my childhood is back!!!
This is a phenomenal assemblage of this genres content. Terrific, just terrific.
Movie!
Movie!!
MOVIE!!!
Nice set here.
Yes, I remember that too. The CBS Special Presentation takes me back as well.
@raposofan It's called classical conditioning.
Childhood: Pair the logo music (unconditioned stimulus) with the warm happy feelings of childhood (unconditioned response) experienced at the time you listened to the music.
Adult: a conditioned response (emotional reaction - happy/wistful/sad) occurs when you hear the same logo as an adult (logo music now is a conditioned stimulus).
Holy crap I had so many chils watching intros from my childhood. Especially that CBS Special logo! Whenever that was on it was usually during the holidays watching Charlie Brown or Frosty or Rudolph. *memories*
It meant for Cree that she was about to see something really bad, but with the debut of something really good. Star Wars Holiday Special... Boba Fett.
the LBS ones were always my faves...and often followed the older green DIC ones...
almost forgot the Hanna Barbera one..that brought back memories
13 years ago....wow, I am so amazed this compilation is still alive. 😃 I seen it ever since you premiered it. Thanks for the memories!
wow, i didn't realize how old motion graphics really was until you reminded me of this stuff. thank you for that.
Brings me nostalgia watching this.
I appreciate how this was edited and created. Be As a child these little blips of creativity really stood out for me growing up... Probably why I became a graphic artist.
I don't know if all of these count as futuristic, but the ones that do are wonderful. Those beautiful synths and simple, satisfying images are so audio-visually catchy it makes you want a music video of them. Oh yeah, Justice already did that with their wicked awesome video for DVNO!
Wow, this really brings back memories from my childhood...this must have taken a lot of research to put together.
I remember the Viacom logo coming almost out of the TV screen like a train coming down the track.
For me, the WGBH Boston logo was usually followed by something that the teacher would tape at home, and then make us watch the next day. Those could be pretty excruciating!
as i come to find, around the holidays sometimes, a boston radio station, WROR 105.7, during the holiday format, uses the rankin bass logo jingle 70's during the legal ID
Fuuuuuuuuck dude, scroll through to 1:06!!!!
I've been googling "spinning star/ old tv spinning start/...etc" trying to look for this freakin tv logo, and I FOUND IT! This Hanna-Barbara logo is one of those that never left my mind. Something about the sound and that star. VERY NICE FIND!
OMG!!!!!
2:00 I haven't seen that since I was little. For some reason I guess it was the music that scared me and I hid in my Mom's lap.
If only some of the songs in these intro sequences had full length counterparts.
That WGBH is iconic
It's funny to think that something like movie/television logos are remembered and cherished by people my age.
Now a days there are no ending credits and animated logos. Damn you Credi Squeeze!!!
Man, I remember being so scared of the Columbia Pictures logos when I was young. The Closet Killer Paramount logo wasn't very nice to me either, same with Walt Disney Home Video (outline Mickey is mad creepy) and Stephen J. Cannell (I hated that C.)
However, I STILL love me some "Sit, Ubu, Sit!" I loved that dog, always came on at the end of Cheers!
PBS really had some out there sounds!
1:05 Gave me the chills.
jefftimesten, I don't know how you found the Channel 7 Saturday Afternoon Movie, that I use to watch a long time ago in Gary, but that brings back a lot of memories. I was looking for that one for a long time since I noticed UA-cam. I mainly watched the late night version but again thanks for bring that back!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to love the Hanna-Barbera star logo, but for some reason I conflate it in my head with the typewriter one. I also remember that my brother and I always had to say the name of the company before it showed up on screen. Talk about successful branding!
Same here!
This is so great! What a genius idea!
Awesome compilation! So many memorable ones here. The Rankin-Bass signature always came at the end of those clay-animated Christmas specials (Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, etc.). My local CBS station was owned by Group W (Westinghouse) back in the 70s and 80s when they were an NBC affiliate (WBZ-TV Channel 4 in Boston). The WGBH Boston signature always came on before ZOOM.
Thanks for posting!
Yes that one is the best. Geez, I think I remember that one from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
That was on of my favorites. It always came on right before the Charlie Brown holiday cartoons. Got me all revved up!
Thanks for the nostalgia pill!
When I heard the ITC one, I immediately exclaimed, "THE MUPPET SHOW!!!" And 'Sit Ubu, Sit' was Family Ties.
ladyofthelake1123 I believe that "Sit, Ubu, sit" was heard at the end of every episode of The Dukes of Hazard.
When I was realy young (about 6 or 7) my mind was convinced that the ITC spinning geometric shape was a real thing that existed somewhere. I was also convinced that the 20th Century Fox logo with beacons was a place I could go to!
The Rankin-Bass here with the jerky quality makes it even more scary! Same for S from Hell Screen Gems! Good collection!!
Students of graphic design should look at this.
Where did the MK12 logo came from?
An excerpt of an article on Wikipedia:
MK12 Studios is a filmmaking and design collective with over a dozen award-winning short films to its credit. Their approach to filmmaking and animation is experimental and holistic, blending live action, traditional and CGI animation, nostalgic influence and new technologies to define their own unique brand of storytelling.
EDIT: Finally got the answer. It's from Ultralove Ninja.
next time, add the NBC special presentation current one, that always gets me perked up for the macy's thanksgiving day parade! woohoo!
I remember that SPECIAL logo that was on CBS, that's one of the logos that used to scare the living daylights out of me, and the Viacom V of Doom.
Love the Stephen J Cannell sequence. Makes me think of The Greatest American Hero
It was also at the end of 'The A-Team.' :)
And The A-Team.
Barbara Kirk I didn’t watch A-Team
Ha....I remember that Stephen J. Cannell logo...its been many many years...
Awesome!! I've seen everyone of these before, and can sing along!! ;)
Wow, lot of memories in there. Great stuff.
Awesome! So very well done!
quality, loving the synth music too.
Man, was Raymond Scott right, little electronic noise logos that would immediately stick in a persons head. If you're interested in retro-future, synth music, and/or electronic noise, pick up his compilation "Manhattan Research".
Love all the old logos...brings me back to a simpler time; when life was easy, television was farely new and innocent. Those were good times!!!
I was hoping you had the ITC one. That was used for UFO and several other Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows.
Do you remember the spinning shape logo used before The Muppet Show, UFO, and Space 1999?
i hate it when logos bring tears to my eyes... dammit! :D thank you!
I felt all the feelings I felt when I first saw these (The ones I saw in my lifetime, anyway). I still think outline Mickey is freaky, and the tone for WGBH used to scare me- but I don't think we had those same letters. And whatever I used to watch that had the Rankin Bass logo I must have enjoyed it, based on my emotions :/
Wow, my childhood flashed before my eyes...
So many of my favorites.
LOL, the music from the intro (3:45) sounds like the Castlevania 64 intro!
Anyone remember "4F" or something like that? Vague recollection here.
God, I remember some of those when I was growing up!
u cuda also put the G4 ch. one that they play during comercials of the movie that i guese r no good...the one that goes "movie that dont suck"its got a retro feel to it also.
These are worth more than the highest karat of gold!!! 💖💖
i was born in 75, i remembered most of these. and there was some i didnt know i remembered!:)
I remember about half of these (or more), and I've never even lived in the states (but in Australia) :) Thank God for imported TV for daytime programming in the 80s.
This video came out when my cat Sega was still alive and before Maru the Cat was born.
That spinning CBS Special logo with the drums! We'd RUN for the TV because we knew Charlie Brown or whatever we were waiting for was starting! No pause button in those days...had to go to the bathroom fast or you'd MISS the beginning.
Must of been hard to hunt these down, Really cool! Brings back memories, I wonder if they tried to make it do that?
The Hannah Barbara logo!
I think one reason the CBS Special Presentation logo is remembered by so many is CBS seemed to keep it past its 'sell by' date. It looked dated in later years but it stayed. Maybe they kept it on for nostalgic reasons. Anyway, fantastic stuff! Thanks
To the person who asked, the UBU logo was on after "Family Ties," but I don't remember what other shows had it, though I believe I remember seeing it after some early sitcom on FOX. "Duet" I think it was.
Jamie Ghione I think it was used again for Spin City with Michael J Fox
Jamie Ghione The Dukes of Hazard.
had afew dreams about these, first one was that I had a show on tv with my own custom logo, and had enough money to get more shows and get the famous logo companies back in buisiness
I've been looking for that CBS Special Presentation one for awhile.
You have to thank Douglas Trumbull and Stanley Kubrick for these "Slit-Scan" type motion graphics. After "2001: A Space Odyssey"'s Stargate sequence hit the screens everybody's Idea of opening bumber's and Idents changed ABC's movie of the week was the first to actually use it. Trumbull himself did the sequence for that one. Good clips!
0:37 to 0:48 = THE GREATEST.
I had the commedy live action, and cartoon series. I had a list of companies I dreamed I worked with. DIC, 2015, program exchange LBS and CPT as well. there was no chance that the v of doom was gonna be there
omg i remember these but i grew up in the 90's O.O crazy....now i feel super old!!
Great collection of logos! That "zombie" Mickey Mouse clip for Disney was a really odd one, but a good find.
oH My God THIS IS FREAKIN ME OUT AAHHHHHH!!!
that rankin bass logo always had me scared to go to sleep after Frosty the Snowman.
0:13 VIACOM V OF DOOM IS HERE???
The WBGH Boston one I made that my ringtone and I love it!!
RIP stephen j cannell
wow...it's shocking how many of those came roaring back in my mind. CBS Special with the drum beat? I'm looking at you.
The CBS Special Presentation one ROCKS!!!
your choice 5 your choice 5 your choice 5
YOUR CHOICE IS FIVE
That is a CBS Saturday morning cartoon commercial bumper in the mid 1980's.
Cheers for doing this.
these bring back memories lol
eleven... eleven... eleven...
Man those bring back memories.
My favorite is the CBS Special one.. I remembered seeing this as a kid and automatically knowing it was the Charlie Brown special - in other words, a CARTOON(!!) on PRIME TIME TV(!!!!) (that was huge if you were a child in the late 70's/early 80's).
Or the Star Wars Holiday Special... BOBA FETT, I LOVE YOU!!
That is so true!! I was one of those kids back then! HeeHee! I miss those days!
Would Multimedia Incorporated's logo count as "retro-futuristic motion?"