Three of the logos were actually repurposed CTHV or CTT logos that were introduced earlier, so I edited the descriptions to reflect this. Also made a few other additions. Tag: Visual edit |
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'''Visuals:''' Nearly the same as the 1993 [[Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]] logo, except the {{color|gold|golden}}-bordered box containing the clouds zooms out much earlier and "{{color|gold|'''HOME VIDEO'''}}" is replaced by "{{color|gold|'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''}}". |
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'''Visuals:''' The logo begins by cutting to a scene full of {{color|gold|golden}} clouds forming, tossing about on a {{color|blue}} cloudy background. Then, "{{color|gold|'''COLUMBIA TRISTAR'''}}" in {{color|gold|golden-yellow}} fades in and zooms out from above, and "{{color|gold|'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''}}", stacked and in the same color, shrinks out from below as the clouds, which are still tossing, zoom out as part of a {{color|gold|golden}}-bordered box on a {{color|blue}}-black gradient background. The box then splits apart to reveal the Torch Lady on the left (in the same style as before), and the Pegasus on the right (again, the same style as before), as the wording takes its position. The text shines for a few seconds after the logo is formed. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI. |
'''Technique:''' CGI. |
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'''Audio:''' A dramatic and contemporary synth theme with beating drums and cues of a piano. The last note of the theme is held out for the rest of the logo. |
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'''Availability:''' Currently only known to have appeared on various ''Three Stooges'' shorts from Stooge TV on The Family Channel (now Freeform) from 1995-1998 and at the end of a sizzle reel of ''Headline Chasers''. |
'''Availability:''' Currently only known to have appeared on various ''Three Stooges'' shorts from Stooge TV on The Family Channel (now Freeform) from 1995-1998 and at the end of a sizzle reel of ''Headline Chasers''. |
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'''Visuals:''' Same as the 1997 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, except "'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''" replaces "'''HOME VIDEO'''". |
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'''Visuals:''' On an ethereal {{color|blue}} background, filmstrips are seen crisscrossing the screen, with each frame in each filmstrip featuring the C-T box logo. A filmstrip then starts to pan towards the center of the screen, showing the boxes in each frame and the endings of their respective movie animations playing out within them. The words "Columbia Tristar" and "International Television" are shown in the middle sliding in slowly from the left and right of the screen respectively as the logo animates. In the middle is a black rounded code-out box with the white word "Columbia" inside, which then changes into "Tristar". As the final frame reaches the screen, the words disappear and the background turns white with several {{color|blue}} areas in each corner as the boxes (with the footage of the Torch Lady from the 1993 Columbia Pictures logo on the left and the footage of the Pegasus from the 1993 TriStar Pictures logo on the right) go into position. Then the words "'''COLUMBIA TRISTAR'''" and "'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''", with the latter being stacked, fade in above and below the boxes. The animation inside the boxes begins to stop as the logo ends. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI. |
'''Technique:''' CGI. |
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'''Audio:''' The Madchester beat from the 6th Columbia |
'''Audio:''' The Madchester beat from the 6th Columbia TriStar Home Video logo. |
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'''Availability:''' |
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<center>COLUMBIA TRISTAR INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION<br>{{Font|serif|{{Big|<u>LIGHTING UP SCREENS</u>}}<br>::::AROUND THE<br>{{Huge|<u>WO</u>RLD}}}}</center> |
<center>COLUMBIA TRISTAR INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION<br>{{Font|serif|{{Big|<u>LIGHTING UP SCREENS</u>}}<br>::::AROUND THE<br>{{Huge|<u>WO</u>RLD}}}}</center> |
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'''Trivia:''' The "Lighting Up Screens Around the World" phrase was used as a slogan for Sony Pictures as a whole around the time this logo was introduced. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI. |
'''Technique:''' CGI. |
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'''Visuals:''' Same as the 1999 version of the 1995 Columbia TriStar Television logo, but "{{color|navy|'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''}}" is added below the boxes. |
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'''Visuals:''' The logo starts out against a forming cloud background. Then a square with the footage of the 1993 Columbia Torch Lady in it fades in, and slides to the left (with a zooming out effect as the box splits), revealing a box with the footage of the 1993 TriStar Pegasus, which slides to the right (the animation is slightly slowed down). The boxes have a thin white border. The words "{{color|navy|'''COLUMBIA TRISTAR'''}}" appear above the boxes and the staked words "{{color|navy|'''INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION'''}}" on the bottom with "{{color|navy|a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company}}" below everything else. |
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'''Technique:''' Computer animation. |
'''Technique:''' Computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The 1994 Columbia |
'''Audio:''' The 1994 Columbia TriStar Television logo theme but played at a noticeable higher pitch (possibly because it aired on TV in a PAL or SECAM-format country, though the same pitch might also be seen in NTSC-format countries). |
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'''Audio Variant:''' In other cases, it used only the closing theme of the show or none, as in the case of season 1 episodes of ''Sue Thomas' F.B. Eye''. |
'''Audio Variant:''' In other cases, it used only the closing theme of the show or none, as in the case of season 1 episodes of ''Sue Thomas' F.B. Eye''. |
Sony Pictures Entertainment and TriStar Television president Jon Feltheimer merged its international television arm Columbia Pictures International Television with TriStar Television to become Columbia TriStar International Television in 1992 to distribute all its shows and the Columbia TriStar films around the world. On September 16, 2002, it was reincorporated as Sony Pictures Television International.
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1st Logo (1995?-1998?) | 2nd Logo (1997-2002) | 3rd Logo (1997-2000?) | 4th Logo (1998?-2000) | 5th Logo (1998-2001) | 6th Logo (1999-2001) | 7th Logo (2000-2002) |
Visuals: Nearly the same as the 1993 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, except the golden-bordered box containing the clouds zooms out much earlier and "HOME VIDEO" is replaced by "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION".
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A slightly sped-up version of the 1993 CTHV theme.
Availability: Currently only known to have appeared on various Three Stooges shorts from Stooge TV on The Family Channel (now Freeform) from 1995-1998 and at the end of a sizzle reel of Headline Chasers.
Visuals: Same as the 1997 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, except "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION" replaces "HOME VIDEO".
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The Madchester beat from the 6th Columbia TriStar Home Video logo.
Availability:
Visuals: A flash occurs. Then, on a "swirly" black-blue background, a few light blue outlined boxes slowly slide in different directions, revealing a white rectangle with dark cyan print boxes of the Columbia and TriStar logos, respectively. Above the white rectangle, the words "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" in a white Bank Gothic MD BT font appear via a flash-like effect. Under the rectangle, "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION" appears in the same fashion.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: Possibly none. The promos that use this logo usually have the ending theme of the trailer alongside an announcer saying a tagline along the lines of "Available from Columbia TriStar International Television."
Availability: The only known evidence of this logo is from a set of promos at Nxtbook.com, among other logos. One of the trailers which had this logo was Ihaka: Blunt Instrument.
Visuals: On the background of the 1993 Columbia Pictures logo is a still shot of the Torch Lady on the left with the logo's clouds behind her and the TriStar Pegasus on the right, without clouds. The TriStar Pegasus unfolds its wings, just like the 1993 theatrical logo. Above them, panning back, is the text "COLUMBIA TRISTAR INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION". Below the waist of the Torch Lady is the underlined text "LIGHTING UP SCREENS", with "AROUND THE" under the word "SCREENS", and "WORLD" in a huge font with the planet Earth rotating and panning back into several rings to represent the letter "O" under it. All the text excluding the company name is in gold and in the Trajan Pro font, and appears somewhat like this:
Trivia: The "Lighting Up Screens Around the World" phrase was used as a slogan for Sony Pictures as a whole around the time this logo was introduced.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The short version of the Columbia TriStar Television Distribution theme.
Availability: This logo was produced in 1996, but so far it has only been spotted on some late '90s and early 2000s episodes of the show AXN (last seen on the American Spanish-language channel TeleXitos).
Visuals: The screen flashes quickly, revealing the same background as the 4th logo, with some connected circles spinning, and a CBS Broadcast International-esque Earth globe spinning, both slowly zooming in. The words "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" and "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION", in a different Bank Gothic typeface, appear at the upper and lower sides of the screen, respectively. Two white lines of light cross each other to form a TV tube-esque shape with the Columbia logo (which is still) at the left side and the TriStar logo (which is also still) at the right side. The lines of light fade out later.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: Possibly none. The promos that use this logo usually have the ending theme of the trailer alongside an announcer saying a tagline along the lines of "Available from Columbia TriStar International Television."
Availability: The only known evidence of this logo is from a set of promos at Nxtbook.com, among other logos. [Examples?]
Visuals: Against a orange or plum purple background, the print Columbia and TriStar boxes filled with vermillion or pink zooms out, along with the following text:
Two vermillion or pink parentheses facing both sides cross each other to fill the boxes with orange or plum purple.
Variant: There is one variant where the parentheses are blinking.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: Same as the 4th and 5th logos.
Availability: Same as the 4th and 5th logos. The orange blinking variant was spotted on a promo for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and a promo for The Jeffersons.
Visuals: Same as the 1999 version of the 1995 Columbia TriStar Television logo, but "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION" is added below the boxes.
Technique: Computer animation.
Audio: The 1994 Columbia TriStar Television logo theme but played at a noticeable higher pitch (possibly because it aired on TV in a PAL or SECAM-format country, though the same pitch might also be seen in NTSC-format countries).
Audio Variant: In other cases, it used only the closing theme of the show or none, as in the case of season 1 episodes of Sue Thomas' F.B. Eye.
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