Weston Woods
Background
Weston Woods is a production company founded in 1953 by Morton Schindel, that produces animated short films and audiobooks based on well-known children's books. The company was acquired in 1996 by Scholastic.
1st Logo (1960s-1996)
Nicknames: "The Trees", "Blue W"
Logo: On a black background, we see three green, stylized trees, with two blue Vs connected together, from the left to right tree, resembling a "W". The lowercase words "weston woods presents" or "a weston woods release" are seen below.
Variants:
- A filmed version exists.
- On some shorts we see different text that says "produced by morton schindel at weston woods studios weston, connecticut, u.s.a.".
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen on early Weston Woods shorts (including the Gene Deitch/Rembrandt Films ones).
Editor's Note: None.
2nd Logo (1996-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the same stylized trees from before, now slightly amended and in a darker green color, zoom up. Then, a flash occurs in in the middle of the trees, turning the middle section into a sky blue "W". The words "weston woods presents" or " "a weston woods release" fades in below.
Variants:
- On later videos, the logo used the 2003 Scholastic logo.
- Starting in 2011, the logo is in widescreen and it was enhanced.
FX/SFX: The logo forming.
Music/Sounds: A piano stinger is heard during the Scholastic logo, which then turns into a whimsical folk theme.
Music/Sounds Trivia: An extended version of this theme would later be used as the background music to an intro used on later Scholastic Video Collection and Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs.
Availability: Common on many Weston Woods videos and DVDs, starting with Harry the Dirty Dog. The 2003 variant can be seen on their later videos and Cinedigm DVD releases.
Editor's Note: None.