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Pathé is a major film production and distribution company, that owns a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Les Cinémas Pathé Gaumont across Europe. It is the second oldest operating film company behind Gaumont which was established in September 28, 1896 by the four brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile, and Jacques Pathé, and before Titanus (founded in 1904), Nordisk Film (founded in 1906), Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Nikkatsu Corporation (all founded in 1912). In 1942, the company was acquired by Adrien Ramauge and was later renamed to Pathé-Cinéma, while Pathé's distribution branch became AMLF. In 1990, Chargeurs purchased the Pathé-Cinéma group and resumed its film production business. AMLF was later folded into Pathé Distribution as a result.
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1st Logo (1927-1936) | 2nd Logo (1943) | 3rd Logo (1945-1948) | 4th Logo (March 9, 1945-1946) |
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5th Logo (1970-1980s) | 6th Logo (1989) | 7th Logo (1991-1999) | 8th Logo (July 2, 1999-) |
Visuals: Inside a white circle on a black background, there is a rooster, which seems to be standing on top of a model globe. Below is the word "Pathé", in the same style as before. The word is in white, except for the areas which overlap the circle, which are in black. The rooster crows.
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Technique: Live-action.
Audio: Just the rooster crowing. On silent films with this logo, it had the film's score over it.
Availability: Most surviving prints of their output have this removed or plastered over with the 7th logo (an example of this is on the Olive Films DVD & Blu-ray of the 1959 French version of Les Misérables). It may still be intact on French films released by The Criterion Collection, Fox Lorber, and Koch Media, among other specialty/art film labels. It was also seen on UK and French prints of Hal Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies and Cecil B. DeMille's silent films such as Chicago and The Godless Girl. This was found intact on Pathegrams News Digests. Also seen on Van Beuren cartoons from 1929-1930 (most YouTubers remove the Pathé logo, but some kept them, particularly Motion Pictures).
Visuals: There is the front of a skyscraper at dusk. A black square with a picture of a rooster is in the middle of the building. The large text "PATHE" is beneath the square while a marquee with the text "PICTURES LTD" is beneath "PATHE". The camera then pans down to reveal that the text is part of a building awning with "PRESENTS" encased in a rectangle.
Technique: Camera-controlled animation.
Audio: A horn fanfare.
Availability: Most prints of titles from this period have it removed or plastered over with the 3rd logo. Some films, such as Cosmo Jones and Crime Smasher, have kept it intact with the 7th logo following.
Visuals: On a gray background, there is a rooster inside a black circle. Beneath the rooster is "Pathe PICTURES LTD.", with "Pathé" in a large cursive font.
Technique: A painting filmed by a cameraman.
Audio: None or the opening theme of the film.
Availability: Unknown. [Examples?]
Visuals: There are the words "Un film" and a circle with a black and white picture of a rooster fade in. Then "Pathé" in large handwritten font draws itself below.
Technique: Cel animation.
Audio: The opening theme of the film.
Availability: Seen on the French DVD and the Criterion DVD of Les Enfants du Paradis at the start, the end of part 1, and the end of part 2. On the Criterion Blu-ray, the current Pathé ident replaces this at the start but it is seen at the end of the film since both parts 1 & 2 are combined into one.
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Visuals: On a worn-out black background, there is a white rectangle containing an abstract red rooster. Beneath that is the white text "PATHÉ". "TRADEMARK OF QUALITY SINCE 1896" is beneath "PATHÉ" in smaller print.
Technique: A hand-drawn graphic.
Audio: Unknown.
Availability: Unknown.
Visuals: On a black background, the text "PATHÉ PICTURES" is seen in a bold white ITC Avant Garde font, with the "TH" being semi-conjoined and the text "INC." seen on the bottom left of the text pointing up. On the upper left gap is a red rooster silhouette crowing. A few seconds later, "PRESENTS" fades in below, and then the screen fades to the program.
Variant: At the end of the program, the logo is seen superimposed on the program, as well as a copyright below.
Technique: A digital graphic.
Audio: The opening and ending themes of the film.
Availability: It was only seen on Arthur Murray Dance Lessons: Cha Cha.
Visuals: On a black background, a yellow line appears and slowly turns into a sunrise. Dark blue and red streaks come from the bottom of the sun, forming a rooster. Once it appears, the sun disappears, leaving a yellow rectangle surrounding the rooster, with "PATHÉ" written under it, and a small yellow line. After a few seconds, the rectangle flips out vertically.
Variants:
Technique: Possibly cel animation (by Digital Pictures).
Audio: A short synthesized fanfare, followed by a dreamy synth/piano tune. Sometimes silent.
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Visuals: On a grey background, there is a balloon reading "PATHÉ!" in yellow, stylized after the speech bubble variant, made into a mobile, rotating around clockwise, with the letters revolving around as well. There are two shadows of the mobile cast in the background by two spotlights. Then, the mobile stalls in its moment, only for it to rotate to its side, with a shadow of a rooster turning into view.
Trivia: There are replicas of the mobile seen in some Pathé cinemas (mostly from the Netherlands). However, they are designed differently than the logo. You can see the demonstration here.
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Technique: CGI produced by Landor Associates in Paris, France.
Audio: A lush piano, drum, choir, and string fanfare. Films such as Astérix and Obélix: Mission Cleopatra have a chicken clucking at the end.
Audio Trivia: Parts of the fanfare would later be sampled and remixed for the company's UK website between 2005 and 2011.
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