Since: 1975-1987 Logo: The screen flashes three different shades of blue, with the effect that they're getting sucked inwards, into a rectangle at the left of the screen, every time they go through a shade, that's the color the rectangle is until all three have been done and the screen is white, then the circles appear to complete the stylized "R-B," Except instead of just appearing, layers of the circles zoom in until they fill the outline-they sort of "grow" in their places To the right of the logo appear the words "A ranKin baSS PRODUCTION" As usual and it looks like the logo 1968-1974 years without the TV monitor. Variants: • On The first easter rabbit: The logo is far more deteriorated than the one on The hobbit: This variant has a dark brown background, and the text and shapes are hardly legible. • On earlier characters of The hobbit: It's silent and the background is carrot orange, while on Nestor the christmas donkey: The music is sped-up and the background is orange-yellow (though both of these could be from film deterioration), on the Xenon VHS release And 2014 remastered WB DVD Of the former, the music is intact and the background is brighter with a slight pink tinge. • On Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, the logo is in a shade of green. • On certain airings of Rankin-Bass specials: The logo fades out after the animation is finished to make way for either the \\' "Distributed By" Logo or the WBTV "75 Years" Logo. Music/sounds: Same as the previous logo, but in a slightly lower tone, in later years and the theme was re-arranged to a majestic and orchestratic version. Music/sound variants: • On the 1983 TV special The coneheads: The jingle was mixed with the drum roll and end chime of the Telepictures Logo that followed. • On the WB DVD release Of The first easter rabbit: The film deteriorated variant uses the fanfare from the 1986 Lorimar-telepictures Logo! and this is likely another case of the sloppy reverse plaster syndrome.
Since: 1971-1973 Logo: Just a dark background with the writing words " *_Rankin/Bass_* " In a script font superimposed onto it with the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH". Music/sounds: Same year as the 1971 Motown Productions logo.
Since: 1966-1968 Logo: Over a white background, we see three colorized TV tubes aside each other, as in the infamous "V" design from theprevious logo, these names pop up on both tubes: ARTHUR RANKIN, Jr. (In the blue tube on the left) JULES BASS (In the green tube on the right), The third tube (which is orange) on the bottom has "Production" Appear in it and "AN" On the top of the logo and revealing the phrase as "AN ARTHUR RANKIN, Jr.-JULES BASS Production." We pan out to reveal the words "VIDEOCrAFT International, Limited" Appearing in black underneath the logo. Trivia: This logo was recently restored by Rankin-bass Historian Rick goldschmidt And is featured in his Rankin-Bass portfolio. Music/sounds: A strum and two horn notes, followed by a 6-note flute tune and a dramatic finish, bongos play throughout the whole thing and the music was composed by Maury laws And Jules bass.
I used to love the specials but as a kid I was terrified of the logo. I would watch the special and then run in the other room at the end before the logo came on
1st logo name: Videocraft international limited Since: 1961-1966 Also known as: Videocraft international limited, Rankin-bass productions And Rankin-bass animated entertainment Company: Viacom enterprises Logo: This superimposed logo features three TV tube-like shapes, one is at the bottom, and the other two are stacked on the left and right corners of the bottom tube, which, when together, resemble the Mickey mouse's shaped Or a water molecule and the company byline appears as "A VIDEOCRAFT INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION" Or "A VIDEOCRAFT PRODUCTION". Variants: In the 50th anniversary Blu-Ray/DVD From Rudolph the red nosed reindeer: The logo is colored white and a shape looks less like a Mickey mouse. Music/sounds: Usually the outro of a TV show.
Final logo name: Rankin-bass animated entertainment Since: 1985 Logo: On a black background, the 1975 logo plays, without the "A" And "PRODUCTION" On the top and the bottom the now-white "ranKin baSS" Word, respectively, the writing words "animated" In a script like font flashes and appears, the words "entertaInment from" Then appears and we then cut to a sped-up version of the Telepictures "Linecoaster" Logo. Music/sounds: A jazzy drum break is heard, followed by an abridged version of Cheetara's Leitmotif (a triumphant horn fanfare, with a funk flare to it), when the Telepictures Logo appears, we hear an abridged version of the drum roll and a ding from the said logo. Music/sounds variant: On one sets of S4EP5 of Thundercats: This had the music from the next logo with the Lorimar-telepictures "Crashing comets" Logo in a high pitch (likely due to NTSC to PAL conversion).
Since: 1985-1989 Logo: We see the classic Rankin-bass Logo, except made completely three-dimensional, with the text in royal blue, in the corporate font of then-current parent company Telepictures, A white line forms under the logo, and that line "springs" into a writing cursive "Animated Entertainment", Then, the "r-B" Zooms up, and the shapes slide apart as they come closer to the screen, revealing a white "from" As the "O" Overtakes the screen, we see the animation of either Telepictures (1985-86) Or Lorimar-telepictures (1986-89) And which eventually fills the entire screen. Variants: • Another shortened version exists in which the logo fades out just as the "r-B" Begins to zoom up, this was due to the 2003 WBTVD Logo plastering the Telepictures Logo, this was spotted on AMC's creation Of the special The life and adventures of santa claus. • A shortened version exists that ends after the company name forming, This was due to the 1984 WBTD Logo plastering the Telepictures Logo, this was spotted on a later Russian creation Of Thundercats S1 Episode "Return to thundera". Music/sounds: A bouncy, synthesized oboe theme (composed by Bernard hoffer), On the first season of Thundercats: The music segues into a custom fanfare for the Telepictures Logo (Also by Hoffer) And from 1986 onward and it segues into the end of the Lorimar-telepictures Theme when the logo appears. Music/sounds variants: • A low tone variant exists. • On a post-1989 Russian creation of Thundercats S1 Episode "Return to thundera": The logo is silent.
That same shortened logo was also seen the first season of Thundercats when it began airing on Cartoon Network during the Toonami block in 1997, then eventually switched back to the original once they aired the second season.
Ok but as i say the true blue logo was not in the 70's but in the 1969 until it got special in 1970- 1975 and became one of the famous logos in the entire us and the universe
Since: 2001-2014 Logo: Same as the years on the logo 1st btoom, except the logo is thinner and flips horizontally in the start. Music/sounds: Just the end title theme playing over the logo.
Why does everytime I play this reminds me of knocking the big green tree lizard of my aunts wall falling on the top of the washer and it ran like hell it in the laundry room that night???it was of kinda funny how it fell backwards of the wall like that when I threw the throw pillow at it like it was looking from the corner of it's eye when I threw it
I could tell some of these logos are fake like the remix of the videocraft music on the first logo. The remix doesn’t happen till the second logo, also, the animated entertainment logo never had the videocraft music.
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A very trippy sound if I can only go back 45 years
Whenever I see the Rankin / Bass logo , Christmas is around the corner .
R.I.P. Jules Bass (1935 - 2022) The American Aardman animator
My favorite studio to watch Christmas movies from
I love the logo!!!
R.I.P. Jules Bass 10.25.22
I miss this true blue logo.
I love rankin bass in the 60s back then.
Since: 1975-1987
Logo: The screen flashes three different shades of blue, with the effect that they're getting sucked inwards, into a rectangle at the left of the screen, every time they go through a shade, that's the color the rectangle is until all three have been done and the screen is white, then the circles appear to complete the stylized "R-B," Except instead of just appearing, layers of the circles zoom in until they fill the outline-they sort of "grow" in their places To the right of the logo appear the words "A ranKin baSS PRODUCTION" As usual and it looks like the logo 1968-1974 years without the TV monitor.
Variants:
• On The first easter rabbit: The logo is far more deteriorated than the one on The hobbit: This variant has a dark brown background, and the text and shapes are hardly legible.
• On earlier characters of The hobbit: It's silent and the background is carrot orange, while on Nestor the christmas donkey: The music is sped-up and the background is orange-yellow (though both of these could be from film deterioration), on the Xenon VHS release And 2014 remastered WB DVD Of the former, the music is intact and the background is brighter with a slight pink tinge.
• On Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, the logo is in a shade of green.
• On certain airings of Rankin-Bass specials: The logo fades out after the animation is finished to make way for either the \\' "Distributed By" Logo or the WBTV "75 Years" Logo.
Music/sounds: Same as the previous logo, but in a slightly lower tone, in later years and the theme was re-arranged to a majestic and orchestratic version.
Music/sound variants:
• On the 1983 TV special The coneheads: The jingle was mixed with the drum roll and end chime of the Telepictures Logo that followed.
• On the WB DVD release Of The first easter rabbit: The film deteriorated variant uses the fanfare from the 1986 Lorimar-telepictures Logo! and this is likely another case of the sloppy reverse plaster syndrome.
Since: 1971-1973
Logo: Just a dark background with the writing words " *_Rankin/Bass_* " In a script font superimposed onto it with the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH".
Music/sounds: Same year as the 1971 Motown Productions logo.
0:57 Logo remake?
Yes
COULD YOU MAKE A DEMBAR MERCURY AND LIONSGATE TELEVISION LOGO HISTORY
Since: 1966-1968
Logo: Over a white background, we see three colorized TV tubes aside each other, as in the infamous "V" design from theprevious logo, these names pop up on both tubes:
ARTHUR RANKIN, Jr. (In the blue tube on the left)
JULES BASS (In the green tube on the right),
The third tube (which is orange) on the bottom has "Production" Appear in it and "AN" On the top of the logo and revealing the phrase as "AN ARTHUR RANKIN, Jr.-JULES BASS Production." We pan out to reveal the words "VIDEOCrAFT International, Limited" Appearing in black underneath the logo.
Trivia: This logo was recently restored by Rankin-bass Historian Rick goldschmidt And is featured in his Rankin-Bass portfolio.
Music/sounds: A strum and two horn notes, followed by a 6-note flute tune and a dramatic finish, bongos play throughout the whole thing and the music was composed by Maury laws And Jules bass.
RIP Arthur Rankin, Jr. (1924 - 2014)
RIP Jules Bass (1935 - 2022)
What are you doing? This is an some kind of movie you know?!
Request: Rankin Bass Logo History (Update 2)
I used to love the specials but as a kid I was terrified of the logo. I would watch the special and then run in the other room at the end before the logo came on
2nd logo name: Rankin-bass productions
Since: 1968-1974
Logo: On a blue background, a large white tube sits flat, resembling a TV screen, a blue rectangle then appears like a door shutting and 2 circles appear separately on top of each other, one blue and the other light blue on the bottom, the light blue and blue text "A ranKin baSS PRODUCTION", Each word stacked, appears next to the shapes and the logo itself is suppose to represent an abstract " *rB* " With the " *r* " Formed up with the darker colored parts and the " *B* " Made up of all the shapes.
Bylines:
• A Division of Tomorrow Entertainment" (© 1971-1974).
• Videocraft copyright notice and e.g. "Videocraft International Limited MCMLXX"
• Bylineless
Variant: Some early appearances of this logo had the animation occurring without the tube outline and with the ending of the show's theme playing over it and this can usually be seen on The little drummer boy And Frosty the snowman.
Music/sounds: Same as the years 1966-1968 Videocraft International Logo, sometimes, it is silent, recent creators of Frosty the snowman Have it either with the film's closing theme or none, original creators and FHE releases Have the music.
Music/sounds variant: There is a variant in which the bongos come in early.
0:55-01:10 is fake. just remakes.
Good remakes tho
mickey Powell Good Remakes Not That
01:21 another remake
1st logo name: Videocraft international limited
Since: 1961-1966
Also known as: Videocraft international limited, Rankin-bass productions And Rankin-bass animated entertainment
Company: Viacom enterprises
Logo: This superimposed logo features three TV tube-like shapes, one is at the bottom, and the other two are stacked on the left and right corners of the bottom tube, which, when together, resemble the Mickey mouse's shaped Or a water molecule and the company byline appears as "A VIDEOCRAFT INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION" Or "A VIDEOCRAFT PRODUCTION".
Variants: In the 50th anniversary Blu-Ray/DVD From Rudolph the red nosed reindeer: The logo is colored white and a shape looks less like a Mickey mouse.
Music/sounds: Usually the outro of a TV show.
Final logo name: Rankin-bass animated entertainment
Since: 1985
Logo: On a black background, the 1975 logo plays, without the "A" And "PRODUCTION" On the top and the bottom the now-white "ranKin baSS" Word, respectively, the writing words "animated" In a script like font flashes and appears, the words "entertaInment from" Then appears and we then cut to a sped-up version of the Telepictures "Linecoaster" Logo.
Music/sounds: A jazzy drum break is heard, followed by an abridged version of Cheetara's Leitmotif (a triumphant horn fanfare, with a funk flare to it), when the Telepictures Logo appears, we hear an abridged version of the drum roll and a ding from the said logo.
Music/sounds variant: On one sets of S4EP5 of Thundercats: This had the music from the next logo with the Lorimar-telepictures "Crashing comets" Logo in a high pitch (likely due to NTSC to PAL conversion).
Since: 1985-1989
Logo: We see the classic Rankin-bass Logo, except made completely three-dimensional, with the text in royal blue, in the corporate font of then-current parent company Telepictures, A white line forms under the logo, and that line "springs" into a writing cursive "Animated Entertainment", Then, the "r-B" Zooms up, and the shapes slide apart as they come closer to the screen, revealing a white "from" As the "O" Overtakes the screen, we see the animation of either Telepictures (1985-86) Or Lorimar-telepictures (1986-89) And which eventually fills the entire screen.
Variants:
• Another shortened version exists in which the logo fades out just as the "r-B" Begins to zoom up, this was due to the 2003 WBTVD Logo plastering the Telepictures Logo, this was spotted on AMC's creation Of the special The life and adventures of santa claus.
• A shortened version exists that ends after the company name forming, This was due to the 1984 WBTD Logo plastering the Telepictures Logo, this was spotted on a later Russian creation Of Thundercats S1 Episode "Return to thundera".
Music/sounds: A bouncy, synthesized oboe theme (composed by Bernard hoffer), On the first season of Thundercats: The music segues into a custom fanfare for the Telepictures Logo (Also by Hoffer) And from 1986 onward and it segues into the end of the Lorimar-telepictures Theme when the logo appears.
Music/sounds variants:
• A low tone variant exists.
• On a post-1989 Russian creation of Thundercats S1 Episode "Return to thundera": The logo is silent.
That same shortened logo was also seen the first season of Thundercats when it began airing on Cartoon Network during the Toonami block in 1997, then eventually switched back to the original once they aired the second season.
Why use fan remakes...?
Is 37 a special number?
Ok but as i say the true blue logo was not in the 70's but in the 1969 until it got special in 1970- 1975 and became one of the famous logos in the entire us and the universe
RIP Jules Bass
Since: 2001-2014
Logo: Same as the years on the logo 1st btoom, except the logo is thinner and flips horizontally in the start.
Music/sounds: Just the end title theme playing over the logo.
Feat:Tcc/Spiffy/Rankin Bass
Ranking bass in remake
2:43 Is this even real?
I think you have the wrong times for the fake ones.
Make A Slo-Mo Vídeo From the model of 1986 And Catch the music from 1968
christmas specials and the thundercats
@STC Official........You Should Be Working For Rankin-Bass(Warner Bros. Entertainment).......I Like Those Remakes........👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙂👍🏾💯
Points off for using fanmade content.
Lots of remakes.
How odd that in the 80s versions they went so far as to present the two dots as being more like logs.
Similar to the Norwegian public broadcasting NRK logo
0:20 Universal
0:07
0:56 i wish that was real
pbs text and Universal music
Why does everytime I play this reminds me of knocking the big green tree lizard of my aunts wall falling on the top of the washer and it ran like hell it in the laundry room that night???it was of kinda funny how it fell backwards of the wall like that when I threw the throw pillow at it like it was looking from the corner of it's eye when I threw it
Relevance?
Lmmfao........😂😂😂😂😂💀🙂👍🏾💯
I noticed some of those were fabricated
I could tell some of these logos are fake like the remix of the videocraft music on the first logo. The remix doesn’t happen till the second logo, also, the animated entertainment logo never had the videocraft music.
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