Warner-Pathé Newsreels

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1st Logo (domestic) (1948-1956, 2001)

Warner-Pathe News (1950s, A)Warner-Pathe News (1950s, B)Warner-Pathe News (1950s, C)

Logo: On a cloudy background we see the WB shield from the era zooming up to the viewer. The inner contents of the shield fade away to a rotating globe with the Pathé rooster in front of it sitting on a weathervane-like perch. The rooster looks around, flaps his wings and crows as the text "WARNER PATHÉ NEWS" fades in front of everything with a copyright notice below. The logo is encased in a cloud outline.

Variant: A closing variant replaced the text with "THE END" and a miniature WB shield on the bottom left and an IATSE union bug on the bottom right.

FX/SFX: The shield zooming, the rooster.

Music/Sounds: A bombastic brass fanfare (composed by Stanley Black) along with the crowing of the rooster, known as the "Pathé News Fanfare."

Music/Sounds Trivia:

• The fanfare heard here was later made into a stock music track in the KPM library, complete with rooster crow intact. It has appeared in a few episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show, such as in "Dog Show" and "Stimpy's Cartoon Show."
• The same rooster effect was used on the 1953 Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon, Duck Amuck, where Daffy Duck tried to talk to the animator.

Availability: Seen on most Warner-Pathé newsreels. It also made a surprise appearance on TM Books and Video's I Love Toy Trains 9 at the beginning of the fake newsreel of the 1937 version of the Lionel Trains New York Central Railroad Hudson.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (international) (1948-1956)

Warner Pathé Newsreels (1950's)

Logo: Against a cloudy BG, we see a WB shield-shaped frame with the Pathé rooster inside. On the side are ribbons that read "WARNER" and "PATHE", and below it is a ribbon that reads "DISTRIBUTORS LTD.".

FX/SFX: All live-action.

Music/Sounds: Silent, or the opening/closing theme of the newsreel.

Availability: Seen on Warner-Pathé newsreels of the time.

Editor's Note: None.