One of the cool things about this is how it was produced. It was meant to look like CGI, as many logo animations were done that way even back in the early 1980s, but this was done practically. A wooden carving of the logo was made and was colored with metallic paint. It was filmed against a black backdrop and turned by a motor.
@@StudioLNL Well, I had heard of the intent of the logo's production in an interview with the person who actually produced it, Sandy Dvore. And it wasn't that they didn't care about CGI. The intent was to put in an organic touch with the look. It may look a bit like CGI, yet it didn't seem to feel that way at the same time. Plus, it was also cheaper and faster to do it practically than to animate it in CGI, especially back in 1981-1982, where the cost in time and money for producing CGI was significantly higher than than it was even in 1986-1987, when Rhythm & Hues produced the UA logo for the company. And, of course, today, you could animate something like this, if not better, in After Effects on a moderately powerful home computer for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time. All you need is the talent to do it.
Really? I love that! A similar effect was done in the trailer for Legend (1985). The title was glass letters slowing rotating under studio lights against black. Very unique!
Starts out mysterious, minor and full of tension. Then it rises to a major key of brilliance. I can see why it scared some kids. Maybe someone or someTHING was about jump out at you.
In the early 1980s, I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings for the cartoons. The first thing I would watch was reruns of The Pink Panther that would come on at 6am on channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Fla. This United Artists logo would play at the start and for some reason it has always been so vivid in my memory
They were smart enough to realize that once you've done a logo this cool and elegant there's no reason to change it. Production companies and studios don't update their logos very often, generally. The Columbia logo a buddy of mine worked on around '92-93 is still being used to this day.
This, Canon Pictures and Carolco are most likely my favorites of all the modern film company logos, the metal ones at least. Orion Pictures is up there too.
It's really brilliant how they gave the same melody two totally different feelings: first somber and melancholy, then soaring and triumphant. And such a beautifully simple logo, although UA had arguably the most discontinuous visual brand identity of all the major studios, and I don't think they ever found a really *great* one. This one's good, but nowhere near as iconic as the Paramount mountain, the Warner shield, the Universal globe, the Columbia lady, or Leo the MGM Lion.
@@ForceMaximus84 I watched all of them growing up in the 80s and this logo preceded all of them up to The Living Daylights. Then in the 90s, they were all retrospectively replaced with the newer logo and theme. I have a feeling the televised/video versions I watched too were all updated to use the most recent version, which was this one at the time.
@@jramjee100 It was indeed - United Artists always plastered the old logo with the current one for video. The only exception was DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER which had the original following this one. I personally wish they'd leave the originals intact as it kills the period of the film by plastering new logos on. Octopussy and A View to a Kill would have been the only 2 Bonds to have had this in the cinema - Living Daylights had the new 1987 logo which is also evident on the poster.
I Really Love This United Artist Logo Here because i brings back childhood memories because I remember watching movies back on broadcast television because they used to show this logo before every movie begins because it brings back memories during the time when television & analog cable TV used to show movies .
No but they and MGM where the distributed the bugs bunny VHS. www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Bugs-Bunny-Friends-VHS/dp/B0000574WF look closly and you will see the MGM/ UA logo
I think I've only ever seen this one the couple of times I rented "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" in my teens, mid to late 80s, and soon brought two VCR:s together and made the copy I had at home until I bought it on DVD. I didn't know until much later that the UA logo was from the time of that video release, not from when the movie had been released originally. But I just loooooove it!
This Definitely links anyone who was a kid at the time to their childhood. Scary as a child yet nostalgic to us as adults. A testimate to this is the fact that, while all other rocky films in their bluray, streaming or premium cable airings use the more modern UA logos rocky 3 still uses this logo at the beginning in all aforementioned formats.
Thank goodness I'm sure. It's always a shame when they have to go and temper with older films simply because they feel those little details are irrelevant.
I've first seen the logo when I was watching a forgotten movie called The Plague Dogs. The Plague Dogs is a 1982 British-American animated adventure film, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was written, directed and produced by Watership Down director, Martin Rosen, Which is in fact, another Richard Adams novel. The Plague Dogs is produced by Nepenthe Productions; it was released by Embassy Pictures in the USA, and by UA (United Artists) in the UK. The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for extreme uses of animal abuse, violent imagery (where a man has been shot in the face with a shotgun) and emotionally distressing scenes. The Plague Dogs is the first non-family-oriented film by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Aside from being used after Transamerica sold the company, the "United Artists" font tends to be the one remnant left from it's Transamerica days that remained in this.
My son loves this logo and always associated this with films like The Offence (1973), The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Thief (1981), 007: For Your Eyes Only (1981), etc.
Was watching a compilation of scary logos. Before there was the loudness of THX, there was this. Probably have a home movie around somehwere of me as a toddler putting in a James Bond VHS and covering my ears when this came on.
I saw that logo when Rocky 3 came on TV yesterday and some reason it's so familiar but I do not remember where I have heard it from childhood. Maybe Pink Panther vhs, but I regognised this sound and logo.
Only time I ever saw this in the wild was during chorus class when they were showing West Side Story for movie day. No one would shut up so I couldn't hear the music, and I sat all the way in the back so I could barely see it.
I remember seeing this logo from two Filmation Peanuts movies like "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown" and "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)" from MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Oof that poorly aged. NTTD in its’ actual final product, after all those delays due to COVID-19, actually only showed the 2012-21 MGM logo in the normal theatrical release, the current MGM logo in the theatrical IMAX, international and home video releases and the Universal logo also in the international theatrical and home video releases.
You wanna know what’s funny? How come the United Artists logo wasn’t seen in the restoration Los of “The Plague Dogs?” I mean you can at least see it in the uncut version.
If you search UA-cam for the video titled 'Part 5 - The UA Logo', you'll find an interview with Sandy Dvore, the creator of the logo, talking in detail about how it was made. I tried to post the direct link, but UA-cam won't let me post it in the comment box, for some reason...
One of the cool things about this is how it was produced.
It was meant to look like CGI, as many logo animations were done that way even back in the early 1980s, but this was done practically. A wooden carving of the logo was made and was colored with metallic paint. It was filmed against a black backdrop and turned by a motor.
you see, they didn't care about cgi until 5 years later in 1987 that is
@@StudioLNL Well, I had heard of the intent of the logo's production in an interview with the person who actually produced it, Sandy Dvore.
And it wasn't that they didn't care about CGI.
The intent was to put in an organic touch with the look. It may look a bit like CGI, yet it didn't seem to feel that way at the same time.
Plus, it was also cheaper and faster to do it practically than to animate it in CGI, especially back in 1981-1982, where the cost in time and money for producing CGI was significantly higher than than it was even in 1986-1987, when Rhythm & Hues produced the UA logo for the company.
And, of course, today, you could animate something like this, if not better, in After Effects on a moderately powerful home computer for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time. All you need is the talent to do it.
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Really? I love that! A similar effect was done in the trailer for Legend (1985). The title was glass letters slowing rotating under studio lights against black. Very unique!
I love this. It always made it seem like the movie was going to be epic.
My sentiments exactly!
tafkaga at the beginning of Trail of The Pink Panther, think twice.
So true!
Rocky IV!
It's a tough act to follow, for sure.
This is the best of all the UA logos.
ROCKY 3
Jim Cameron that brought me here lol
Schulyer Colfax ikr it sure is
Honestly I prefer the 1994 logo
This scared me as a kid, mainly the music
Same
I'M NOT ALONE..........
I was too young to read and understand what the hell was happening so I just screamed
Yes! Scary!
Ditto. I remember covering my ears in bed when I’d hear it from the living room when my parents would watch the late, late movie.
@@jakfuki Same here lol
Goosebumps. The movie that followed was almost epic like James Bond. Rip the 80s
Totally! I can't see that iconic United Artists logo and hear that theme without anticipating the opening of a cool James Bond movie. :)
This opening is SO much better than any they did after!
83’ HBO intro followed by this UA.
Equaled chills and awesomeness.
This brings back memories of the eighties this logo would come on before the Pink Panther cartoon
Along with a WB cartoon
That's where I always saw it too! And it use to freak the hell out of me.
ROCKY III for me.. when I first got cable in 83' and this came up.. and it forever linked in my head to R3.
And Rocky 4
This always gave me goose pimples....the horns are magical.
g-go-goose pimples?
always the horns
MMm ... the "goose pimples" came before the horns in my case, with the synthesised bass and the piano. Never cared much for the horns.
it's like the lead up to a really pleasurable bowel movement. 😢
Back in the ‘80s, all the prints of The Pink Panther cartoons that were aired on WGN Channel 9 started with this intro.
This is definitely the most epic opening logo! It sounds like something haunting and scary is about to happen.
To me, it sounded like something happy is about to happen.
It just did... that logo.
I get a warm tingly feeling every time I hear this fanfare. Ah, the 80s... 😀😌
I thought this was from the 60's
The Secret of NIMH =), almost as eargasmic as the PS One intro
"Simple but effective" is the perfect way to describe this fantastic logo
the best intro ever.
It sounded like you wanted to cry, but you ended up getting happier.
Starts out mysterious, minor and full of tension. Then it rises to a major key of brilliance.
I can see why it scared some kids. Maybe someone or someTHING was about jump out at you.
this opening use to give me chills when I was a kid. The most eargasmic sound there is!
In the early 1980s, I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings for the cartoons. The first thing I would watch was reruns of The Pink Panther that would come on at 6am on channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Fla. This United Artists logo would play at the start and for some reason it has always been so vivid in my memory
That's where I remember this one from. Good stuff.
Was it a filmreel print or videotaped prints that they use on TV airings?
They were smart enough to realize that once you've done a logo this cool and elegant there's no reason to change it. Production companies and studios don't update their logos very often, generally. The Columbia logo a buddy of mine worked on around '92-93 is still being used to this day.
This, Canon Pictures and Carolco are most likely my favorites of all the modern film company logos, the metal ones at least. Orion Pictures is up there too.
Seeing this as a kid, I knew that it was a good chance that "Rocky III" was going to be on.
Taken from The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Hated that film its depressing, especially as daddy/hubby mouse gets killed lol
@@nialwestwood He's dead from the beginning.
J. B. I remember it vaguely from school in the mid 80s and it depressed me to hell . I like comedy mouses, not bleak mouses lol
Mr. Jonathan Brisby.
I love that movie (that and All dogs go to heaven).
Makes me wanna watch Rocky II.
You mean Rocky III?
and Trail Of The Pink Panther
Rocky III is the only UA title I have found on Blu ray which has not plastered over this logo!
It's strange, I recently brought Rocky The Anthology (MGM versions) and only Rocky 3 had this intro. The others had the new version intro
It's on right now that's why I came looking for this video
For '82, this logo's animation is way ahead of it's time
I miss this. Dramatic and epic in two notes(give or take)
It's really brilliant how they gave the same melody two totally different feelings: first somber and melancholy, then soaring and triumphant. And such a beautifully simple logo, although UA had arguably the most discontinuous visual brand identity of all the major studios, and I don't think they ever found a really *great* one. This one's good, but nowhere near as iconic as the Paramount mountain, the Warner shield, the Universal globe, the Columbia lady, or Leo the MGM Lion.
Or the Fox Structure logo.
Or the TriStar pegasus.
Or the Disney Castle
Very, very, very true.
Everyone keeps saying Rocky 3 or Rocky 4. What about freaking JAMES BOND 007?
And Trail of The Pink Panther, followed by the B.E.E logo, and the morning prayer in Lugash.
Jayneel Ramjee probably cause the Bond series started to go into decline when this logo came to be.
I think because the only time this logo was attached to Bond was when Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only went to video.
@@ForceMaximus84 I watched all of them growing up in the 80s and this logo preceded all of them up to The Living Daylights. Then in the 90s, they were all retrospectively replaced with the newer logo and theme. I have a feeling the televised/video versions I watched too were all updated to use the most recent version, which was this one at the time.
@@jramjee100 It was indeed - United Artists always plastered the old logo with the current one for video. The only exception was DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER which had the original following this one. I personally wish they'd leave the originals intact as it kills the period of the film by plastering new logos on. Octopussy and A View to a Kill would have been the only 2 Bonds to have had this in the cinema - Living Daylights had the new 1987 logo which is also evident on the poster.
I was 7 in 82 & this music used to scare the shit outta me
I'm not alone......
Always the most epic welcome to Secret Of Nimh. 🥰
United Artist will celebrate their 100 anniversary on February 4, 2019!!
A bygone era of superb films
Great intro. When the Bond movies were first shown on German TV in 1984/85 they started with that intro. Nostalgic memory
I Really Love This United Artist Logo Here because i brings back childhood memories because I remember watching movies back on broadcast television because they used to show this logo before every movie begins because it brings back memories during the time when television & analog cable TV used to show movies .
Memories of the opening to Rocky IV flooding back.
THIS IS HOW TO START A MOVIE
also from The Secret of NIMH
+Joh Smith And from the bugs bunny and frends VHS 1989.
Hello? United Artists never made Bugs Bunny
No but they and MGM where the distributed the bugs bunny VHS.
www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Bugs-Bunny-Friends-VHS/dp/B0000574WF
look closly and you will see the MGM/ UA logo
Doug Briglmen Oh, nevermind then.
I think I've only ever seen this one the couple of times I rented "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" in my teens, mid to late 80s, and soon brought two VCR:s together and made the copy I had at home until I bought it on DVD. I didn't know until much later that the UA logo was from the time of that video release, not from when the movie had been released originally. But I just loooooove it!
This Definitely links anyone who was a kid at the time to their childhood. Scary as a child yet nostalgic to us as adults. A testimate to this is the fact that, while all other rocky films in their bluray, streaming or premium cable airings use the more modern UA logos rocky 3 still uses this logo at the beginning in all aforementioned formats.
I keep expecting the James Bond gunbarrel to pop up next...
I remember first seeing this on Rocky IV
on videocassete
The first thing I saw it on was, I can't remember the exact title, some Bugs Bunny anthology movie featuring Mel Blanc interviews in between cartoons.
One of the most elegant logos
Thank goodness I'm sure. It's always a shame when they have to go and temper with older films simply because they feel those little details are irrelevant.
Logo scared the shit out of me as a kid, giving that eerie feeling like it was going to suck out my soul or something by the end.
Time to watch some pre-1948 WB cartoons.
This always makes me think "Ohhh! this movie gonna be good!"
I remember that logo appeared once the Pink Panther programming ended when I was a child and that time the music and the sound scared me.
I was never afraid of this.......I liked seeing and hearing it
I've first seen the logo when I was watching a forgotten movie called The Plague Dogs. The Plague Dogs is a 1982 British-American animated adventure film, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was written, directed and produced by Watership Down director, Martin Rosen, Which is in fact, another Richard Adams novel. The Plague Dogs is produced by Nepenthe Productions; it was released by Embassy Pictures in the USA, and by UA (United Artists) in the UK. The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for extreme uses of animal abuse, violent imagery (where a man has been shot in the face with a shotgun) and emotionally distressing scenes. The Plague Dogs is the first non-family-oriented film by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Well, it is now at the hands of both Lionsgate and StudioCanal in 2003.
Just makes the movie experience all that special...
I could almost count on one hand the number of times TBS mistakenly opened cartoons and shorts with this logo.
Remember when United Artists used to owned the rights to the 1930s and 1940s Looney Tunes cartoons?
@@michaelbolcato192 That would explain it.
This used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid
Jane Doe hell yea man me too!!
I remember it from the James Bond movies. Ah, those memories 🥲
Also Rocky
favorite logo ever
Aside from being used after Transamerica sold the company, the "United Artists" font tends to be the one remnant left from it's Transamerica days that remained in this.
My son loves this logo and always associated this with films like The Offence (1973), The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Thief (1981), 007: For Your Eyes Only (1981), etc.
I think of The Secret of N.I.M.H. when I see this logo
Was watching a compilation of scary logos. Before there was the loudness of THX, there was this. Probably have a home movie around somehwere of me as a toddler putting in a James Bond VHS and covering my ears when this came on.
By far the best.
I always thought that an sci-fi movie would follow after this intro
Aaand i crapped myself...
+Rope Setä: Not normal. You should see a doctor for that shit!
Saw this before "West Side Story" via VHS
That sound meant movies and sofa for me❤
Also seen on the 1983 VHS of "Heaven's Gate".
This particular United Artists logo and accompanying little music Sting was used for the 1984 VHS release of 1976’s Carrie
Rocky brought me here
Look what Rocky bought me with his money.
best theme gave the movie excitment
A long time ago, this was almost the opening to Star Wars.
This logo and music in the old James Bond films, ufff!!!
I saw that logo when Rocky 3 came on TV yesterday and some reason it's so familiar but I do not remember where I have heard it from childhood. Maybe Pink Panther vhs, but I regognised this sound and logo.
Only time I ever saw this in the wild was during chorus class when they were showing West Side Story for movie day. No one would shut up so I couldn't hear the music, and I sat all the way in the back so I could barely see it.
I remember seeing this logo from two Filmation Peanuts movies like "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown" and "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)" from MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
My favorite United Artists logo.
Excited to see what the 2020 logo is going to look like when No Time To Die releases!
Oof that poorly aged.
NTTD in its’ actual final product, after all those delays due to COVID-19, actually only showed the 2012-21 MGM logo in the normal theatrical release, the current MGM logo in the theatrical IMAX, international and home video releases and the Universal logo also in the international theatrical and home video releases.
So magical.
At least they got it used at all.
It was also taken from "Rock & Rule" in 1983.
The best ever ( not only from United Artists)
Taken from Rocky III (1983).
I heard the low pitched version, which is the Eb major key
The first film, i saw this intro in, was
a short Don Bluth animation
BANJO THE WOODPILE CAT (1979).
I was 5 or 6 back in the late 1980's.
😺👍
I remember this from a Pink Panther video!
Music by Joe Harnell
The father of voice actor and singer Jess Harnell
Time to rewatch the Secret of NIMH
Rocky IV on VHS 📼 comes to mind with this United Artists logo.(Via Warner Home Video 📸 tape release).
Memories of the 1980s. 😂
Very nice music 👌👍
ROCKY IV!!!
The death and rebirth of the Phoenix!!!!
Appeared on one of my MGM/UA Home Video VHS tapes.
Ahh...reminds me of my big box Rocky vhs tapes.
This use to scare me as a kid.. something about that intro!
It was used in James Bond movies: Moontraker
You wanna know what’s funny? How come the United Artists logo wasn’t seen in the restoration Los of “The Plague Dogs?” I mean you can at least see it in the uncut version.
I think this is the best studio logo, its just cool!!
From "Rocky III" (1982)
They should bring this intro back.
Always felt a scary movie was gonna be on.
This brings memmories from pink panther animation series.
Raging bull and NIMH brought me here
From Rock A Doodle
That was Samuel Goldwyn Films.
If you search UA-cam for the video titled 'Part 5 - The UA Logo', you'll find an interview with Sandy Dvore, the creator of the logo, talking in detail about how it was made.
I tried to post the direct link, but UA-cam won't let me post it in the comment box, for some reason...