Lucida Productions

Background

Lucida Productions is a British television production company owned by Paul Joyce.

1st Logo (April 25, 1990)

Visuals: On a dark blue-blue gradient background is the spaced out and partially unfilled text "l u c i d a" on top of a thin underline and "productions to the underline's bottom right. Moments after the logo appears, the copyright stamp appears on the bottom of the screen.

Technique: Fading effects.

Audio: The closing theme of the programme.

Availability: Its only known appearance is on Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders.

2nd Logo (January 4, 1992-2008?)

Visuals: Two white lights sweep across a dark grey background, with "lucida", in the same appearance as before. in front of them. Eventually, one of the lights stops, making a dividing line across the middle of the screen. After this, the underline from before wipes itself under "lucida," and "productions" fades in, followed by the co-producer's name and copyright notice below.

Variants:

Sometimes, "productions" or the underline does not appear and the copyright information is already formed.
Beginning in 2006, the logo was colorized blue.

Technique: 2D animation.

Audio: None or the closing theme of the programme.

Availability:

Its earliest appearance was on Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron and later appears on Cinefile, The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut, and on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of the Devils, among other film documentaries.
The color variant is known appear on restorations of their older films and after the featurettes of home media releases of various movies. These include the 2007 DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the digital remasters of Plunging on Alone Monte Hellman's Life in a Day and The Man Who Left His Soul on Film.