Republic Entertainment/Production Logos

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1st Logo (1985?-1987)

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Visuals: Same as the original Republic Pictures logo, but this time, the logo is computerized, with some clouds appearing to move, and the text "REPUBLIC PICTURES" flies in from the bottom of the screen.

Variants:

• On some movies, the word "Presents" would fade in below the logo, in a script font.
• A B&W variant exists.
• Videotaped and filmed variants exist.
• A variant with the text "REPUBLIC PICTURES" simply fading in also exists. The text is in the same font, but is less-detailed.
• On TV shows, a still shot is used, with the text reading "Distributed by REPUBLIC PICTURES" in a yellow-ish orange Roman font. A B&W variant is also used as well for this variant.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: The opening theme of the movie, or none.

Availability: This logo is seen on some movies and home video releases.

• The "Presents" version is seen on Gun Battle at Monterey on Starz Encore Westerns and TCM UK.
• The variant with the text fading in is seen at the end of a 1995 U.S. VHS release of It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
• On TV shows, it is preserved on several episodes of Car 54, Where Are You? on Me-TV.
• It was also seen on late 1980s syndicated reruns of Press Your Luck (now owned by FremantleMedia).

2nd Logo (1987-1988)

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Visuals: On a sky background, there is a redrawn version of the last logo; there are less clouds in the logo, leaving a clear blue sky in front of the eagle. The words "REPUBLIC PICTURES" fly up from behind the clouds.

Variant: Still and B&W variants exist.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: None or the ending theme of the show.

Availability:

• The animated version can be found on releases from Republic Pictures Home Video from the late 1980s.
• The still variant is seen on season 1 of the TV series Beauty and the Beast on Chiller and DVD (with the 2006 CBS Paramount Domestic Television "Eye in the Sky" logo following), while the later seasons has been plastered in favor of either the 2006 CBS Paramount Network Television "Wallpaper" or the 2007 CBS Television Distribution logos.
• It can also be spotted on a few episodes of I Spy on RTV.
• A B&W version also made an appearance at the end of a TCM airing of The Senator was Indiscreet (1947).

3rd Logo (1988-1994)

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Visuals: Over a blue sky background, the logo starts with the bald eagle standing on a mountain with the words "REPUBLIC PICTURES", which fades in below. White clouds are also shown at the bottom.

Variants:

• A still version of the logo exists.
• Sometimes, a copyright date is shown below the logo.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio:

• 1990: The patriotic fanfare from the 1950s.
• 1990-1994: A majestic fanfare is used.
• In most cases, the opening theme of the movie, the closing theme of the show, or none.

Availability:

• On movies, once again it can be found on a few Republic Pictures Home Video releases from 1988-89, when the home video version began use, and was also seen at the beginning of a Talking Pictures TV airing of Viva Max! (1969), the end of a recent TCM UK airing of Thunder Pass (1954) and a Movies! airing of Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island (1966).
• On TV shows, it also tends to plaster older logos within prints from the pre-1973 NBC catalog (such as Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie (the latter premiering in 1974)), and most of the Quinn Martin produced shows; this was intact on Bonanza VHS and non-CBS DVD releases and when reran on TV Land and TVLand.com, preceding the 1995 Paramount Domestic Television logo.
• It is also preserved on Me-TV's prints of Bonanza (on some episodes, others may use the Worldvision or 2007 CBS Television Distribution logos) and Get Smart, as well as the last two seasons of Beauty and the Beast.
• It was also seen on a mid 1990s PBS broadcast of Victory at Sea (1954).

4th Logo (1993-2010)

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Visuals: The sequence starts with a white cloud background. Then the sky and the clouds disperse, revealing the old view of the Republic Pictures bald eagle, redone in CGI. At the bottom-right is the rock. "REPUBLIC PICTURES", in white fades-in underneath and until 2006, the respective company byline appears below the company name.

Bylines:

• 1993-1994, 2006-2010: Bylineless
• 1994-1995:"A Unit of Spelling Entertainment, Inc."
• 1995: "A UNIT OF SPELLING ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC."
• 1995-2006: "A Subsidiary of Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc."

Variants:

• A "60th Anniversary" variant exists.
• A still variant also exists.
• In 1997, a shorter version which cuts the fade-in from white in the first few seconds of the logo debuted. This is used in tandem with the standard version.
• *On some television movies, a shortened animated variant without the Spelling byline is used.
• Some Artisan DVD releases use an extremely short version that fades in when the "REPUBLIC PICTURES" text appears.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A wind-blowing effect, followed by a dramatic string tune. The still variant uses the second half of the jingle. Both jingles were composed by David Michael Frank and Gary William Friedman.

Audio Variant: This logo plastered the Paramount logo on some 1990s-era prints of the Fleischer Brothers' animated Gulliver's Travels. On said prints, the beginning of the opening credits music plays over this logo.

Availability: This logo was mostly used as a de-facto home video logo or as a TV logo.

• It is rarely seen on films, but such films that feature this logo include the remastered version of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), including NBC's current print of the film, and Two-Bits & Pepper.
• It can be found on TV movies, such as Armed and Innocent.
• VHS releases that feature this logo include The Tin Soldier, the 1997 release of Highlander (1986), and several Hallmark Hall of Fame VHS releases from the era, among others.
• The 1995 byline variant can be found on the VHS release of A Lady Takes a Chance.
• It was also seen on the Roku Channel's print of Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), which was derived from a pan-and-scan master from the '90s.
• The bylineless variant was seen on the mini-series The Stand, and is also preserved on DVD releases from Artisan Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment such as Freeway and Bound.
• On television shows, it is seen on shows like The High Chaparral on INSP, H&I and Decades (occasionally, although some updated prints plaster this with the 2007 CBS Television Distribution logo) and Bonanza.
• On the DVD release of the series Kindred: The Embraced, this logo is seen after the 1992 Spelling Television logo; however, it was not seen on the original Fox airings.
• It is also seen at the start of the UK VHS release of the 1994 TV movie Texas, following the 1992 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment logo.