Hal Roach Studios

1st Logo (1985?-1986?)

Logo: On a black background, we see the words "HAL ROACH STUDIOS" in orange and in an Art Deco font. The word "presents" in white is seen below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, but, as a result of plastering, the fanfare from whatever logo on the original print would play over this one.

Availability: Practically extinct. Was seen on Roach's Award Quality Movie Greats VHS collection, which has been out of print for years.

2nd Logo (1986?-1988)

Logo: On a changing brownish gradient background, we see a silver box with the following text in an angular, art-deco font shifting from the right:

HAL
ROACH
STUDIOS

The box has line borders between each word. After it stops shifting, a bar of light shimmers the box from the right, eventually stopping.

Variants:

At the beginning of television shows and some distributed movies, a silver bar with "P R E S E N T S" is shown.
Some programs feature the copyright line below the logo.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Two loud whooshes.

Music/Sounds Variants:

Sometimes, only one whoosh is heard.
Other times, the end title theme from any show carries over this logo.

Availability: Rare.

Was seen on colorized versions of movies such as the Video Treasures release of It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
This also appeared at the end of early episodes of Kids Incorporated.
This logo can be seen on The Laurel and Hardy Show on This TV and TCM broadcasts of Topper Returns.
Recently appeared at the beginning of an INSP airing of Angel and the Badman.
It also appears on the 1986 UK VHS release of the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) which was released by The Video Collection as well.

Hal Roach Studios

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