Riga Film Studio

Credits

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Background

Riga Film Studio is a Latvian film production company founded in 1940. Before the independence of Latvia in 1990, they were very active, especially from the 60's to 80's. While the company is still around to this day, they have stopped producing movies since 2000.

1st Logo (February 4, 1965)

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Visuals: Against a stone wall is a stylized silhouette of a rooster standing on a pointy spire against a tall white archway shape. To the right of it is the company name engraved into the wall in a serif font and stacked format.

Technique: A still painting filmed by a camera.

Audio: None.

Availability: So far, this logo has only appeared on Latvian prints of Клятва Гиппократа.

2nd Logo (November 26, 1966)

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Visuals: Two colors divide the screen; the top one is blue and the bottom is black. The latter contains the company name in a serif font and stacked format. The former has a horizontal filmstrip on top of a pole, which morphs into the rooster from before but with its comb and wattle unfilled. The fowl then crows.

Technique: Traditional animation.

Audio: It only consists of the rooster crowing.

Availability: Like before, its only known appearance was on one film: The Last Rogue.

3rd Logo (July 13, 1982)

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Visuals: Against a black background, a gold version of the rooster from before is shown without the filmstrip details. It crossfades to another version but with the filmstrip holes intact and in more saturated colors. The company name is also seen below it. A few seconds later, the rooster morphs into a treble clef.

Technique: Traditional animation.

Audio: Just the sound of a rooster's cry.

Availability: So far, it was seen on Краткое наставление в любви.

4th Logo (1982-2000)

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Visuals: On a black backdrop, a white silhouette of the rooster and spire from before is shown on top of the company name in a serif font.

Variants:

• On its earliest appearances, the spire is seen next to "RIGAS" and the company name is in a stacked format.
  • A Cyrillic version of this features the company's Russian name in a non-serif font.
• Dzīvīte has a similar version to the above variant except the logo is larger, more detailed, and outlined, and the text is smaller.
• On Vecās pagastmājas mistērija, the logo is superimposed in to the opening credits and the last two words of the company name are lowercased and combined together.

Technique: A still, printed image.

Audio: None.

Availability: The normal logo has appeared on Нужна солистка, Малиновое вино, Tikšanās uz piena ceļa, and Aizaugušā grāvī viegli krist. The Cyrillic variant's only known appearance was on Сад с призраком. As mentioned before, nearly every Russian print of their films replace this with an in-credit text indicator. The logo's last appearance was on Vecās pagastmājas mistērija.