There are many variants of this logo, there was one from “The Cannonball Run” featured the a police car chasing a car where all of the searchlights crashing while a car was on in the middle of the zero. In addition to all of that, there was a record label called 20th Century Fox Records. Originally started as 20th Fox, and went through a few rebranding including 20th Century Fox Records in the mid 1960’s, 20th Century Records in 1972 and back to 20th Century Fox Records in 1977 until the label folded into PolyGram in late 1981. The final label design was a resemblance to the iconic film studio logo. And of course, there were spoofs of this TCF logo that includes 20th Century Frog and 20th Century Foss.
I spent 25-years at 20th Century-Fox, many of which saw me as a studio historian among other duties... The iconic logo and fanfare have always been of interest to so many and rightly so. The studio really had a slow Rupert Murdoch death beginning in the 1980's, and when he sold-it-out to Disney it really was the end of a magnificent studio!
I’m surprised you didn’t cover the Fox Searchlight logo was well, since it was an extension of 20th Century Fox. I think the Searchlight Pictures rebrand looks better than the 20th Century Studios one. I look forward to seeing you cover the evolution of the Warner Bros logo and subsequent revert to the classic shield and banner version.
You did a great job explaining this historic logo in detail. I just wish you had spent five minutes more on the fanfare. You talk about Alfred Newman's extension but don't give an example.
Great job! I love the 90’s logo myself. Disney buying the studio hasn’t done much good so far. Reading that Blue Sky Studios was shutting down was the worst news report that came out on my birthday ever! Thank goodness Free Guy, West Side Story and Avatar The Way Of Water turned out to be good movies! One of my first movies was Ferngully with the 80’s logo.
Now you made me want to go out and get myself some more 20th Century Fox movies to pay tribute to its legacy. Knowing how much of it is gone thanks to the Disney buyout. Also, one thing to note is how the intersecting searchlight beams, in the first logo, are actually referenced in the CGI logos at the start of the fanfare and animation.
To think that what was one of the most iconic symbols in Hollywood with a whole history of its own movies behind it (long before just the X-Men franchise), now reduced to a visual gag in Deadpool & Wolverine in a state of ruin not too different from the Statue of Liberty scene in Planet of the Apes. One that now symbolizes the death of its era as an independent film studio after Disney bought them out. Even if Deadpool wants them to "rest in pieces" it's only made me want to revisit their past films that much more, lest we ever forget the entire legacy of Disney's now-rebranded 20th Century Studios as "20th Century Fox".
Because there's a gang of puppeteers in Britain who would take offense and sue if they called themselves 21st century Fox. Speaking of which I wonder if the next new concept of a Mario game would be called Super Mario Nation, a game about the politics of the Mushroom Kingdom and the Koopa Kingdom. Probably those puppeteers could say they could have that name but they can't use puppet style animation for Super Mario Nation.
Ever since I was a child I've wanted to climb up the stairs to this glorious monument. The small building on the left seems to have a door. I wonder what's inside.
Find a photo of the 20th Century Limited logo. It was a luxury train on the New York Central Railroad line that traveled from Grand Central Station in New York City to Chicago. Does it look familiar to you?
