What better way to get you excited to watch a movie? Why, the logo's theme of course!
- Let's start off with the most epic music used in a logo, the fanfare
of 20th Century Studios. Perhaps the most iconic 10 bars of music in film history. - Since 1985, Disney has used three renditions of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio, and all three renditions are fantastic.
- The rich cinema history of Warner Bros. needs a vanity plate theme to match, and they hit the mark dead centre by paying tribute to one of their most timeless films, Casablanca, with a musical quote from "As Time Goes By". "The fundamental things apply, as time goes by..."
- The 1976-81 Columbia Pictures Sunburst/Abstract Torch starts on the Torch Lady, and then builds to a crescendo as the camera moves from there to inside the torch; the crescendo comes as the Sunburst (of 26 rays) appears and condenses into the Abstract Torch (of the top half of 13 rays) in white in a blue semicircle/crescent. The music of this logo was composed by Suzanne Ciani, who is probably far more remembered for this music than anything else in her career. Some films of the time, however, do not have this music on the logo, opting for either silence (as on 1979's The China Syndrome), or the opening strains of the film's soundtrack (as on 1978's Thank God It's Friday, where not only is the logo like this, but also has the Logo Joke of the Torch Lady doing a brief disco dance before resuming normal pose and having the rest of the logo play out as normal).
