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'''Nicknames:''' "Classic Torch Lady", "'30s Torch Lady", "Torch Lady II", "America Torch Lady II" | '''Nicknames:''' "Classic Torch Lady", "'30s Torch Lady", "'40s Torch Lady in Color", "Torch Lady II", "America Torch Lady II" | ||
'''Logo:''' We see the lady, this time standing on top of a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her, while she is holding her light torch. Much more refined, ethereal and goddess-like, her facial features became less pronounced and she looked away (up and to the right) instead of straight ahead. Her headdress was removed and her hair swept back instead of hanging by the sides of her face. The drape over her shoulder became less-obviously an American flag, the stars on the left shoulder having been toned down in a shadow, and the stripes visible only on the portion of the drape hanging down her right side. "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" was replaced with the tall chiseled letters of "COLUMBIA" (which fades in a second afterward) running straight across the top section of the screen, with the lady's torch glowing in front of the "U". A new form of animation was used on the logo as well, with a torch that radiates light instead of flickers. Until the mid-1960s, this logo would also appear at the end of films, sometimes with the words "The End" in a script font. | '''Logo:''' We see the lady, this time standing on top of a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her, while she is holding her light torch. Much more refined, ethereal and goddess-like, her facial features became less pronounced and she looked away (up and to the right) instead of straight ahead. Her headdress was removed and her hair swept back instead of hanging by the sides of her face. The drape over her shoulder became less-obviously an American flag, the stars on the left shoulder having been toned down in a shadow, and the stripes visible only on the portion of the drape hanging down her right side. "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" was replaced with the tall chiseled letters of "COLUMBIA" (which fades in a second afterward) running straight across the top section of the screen, with the lady's torch glowing in front of the "U". A new form of animation was used on the logo as well, with a torch that radiates light instead of flickers. Until the mid-1960s, this logo would also appear at the end of films, sometimes with the words "The End" in a script font. | ||
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*1942: The lady looks much like she did in 1936, only the stripes were removed and the flag became simply a drape without markings (the Sony website implies that the change was to coincide with a new law that forbade the usage of the American flag as clothing), dark on the left shoulder but only the shadows of the folds differentiating the rest of it from the lady's white gown on her right side. The "COLUMBIA" lettering was also modified, still chiseled but less bold, and with darker shadowing. | *1942: The lady looks much like she did in 1936, only the stripes were removed and the flag became simply a drape without markings (the Sony website implies that the change was to coincide with a new law that forbade the usage of the American flag as clothing), dark on the left shoulder but only the shadows of the folds differentiating the rest of it from the lady's white gown on her right side. The "COLUMBIA" lettering was also modified, still chiseled but less bold, and with darker shadowing. | ||
*1943-1952, 1953-1954: The logo is adapted for Technicolor. The pedestal is more visible now and the sky background was changed. | |||
*1945, 1949–1954: Similar to the Technicolor variant, but the "COLUMBIA" text is orange. This logo is adapted for Cinecolor. | |||
*July 17, 1953: The Columbia Lady's robe was redrawn with a plunging neckline. The logo is also adapted for widescreen. | *July 17, 1953: The Columbia Lady's robe was redrawn with a plunging neckline. The logo is also adapted for widescreen. | ||
*January 26, 1955: The logo is adapted for CinemaScope. The Torch Lady lost her slipper-clad foot peeking out from the bottom of her robe as it divided just above the pedestal. Also, the clouds behind the logo became concentrated in the center and more billowy in shape. | *January 26, 1955: The logo is adapted for CinemaScope. The Torch Lady lost her slipper-clad foot peeking out from the bottom of her robe as it divided just above the pedestal. Also, the clouds behind the logo became concentrated in the center and more billowy in shape. | ||
*1960-1968: Similar to the CinemaScope variant, but the clouds are blue. | |||
*April 1968-December 12, 1973, April 5, 1974, August 1, 1976: The drapery was temporarily pink during this era. Several films that feature this variant include ''Where Angels Go'', ''Trouble Follows!'', ''The Swimmer'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Hammerhead'', ''Funny Girl'', ''The Wrecking Crew'', ''Otley'', ''Model Shop'', ''MacKenna's Gold'', ''Easy Rider'', ''Castle Keep'', ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'', ''The Desperados'', ''Cactus Flower'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''The Owl and the Pussycat'', ''The Reckoning'', ''10 Rillington Place'', ''The Anderson Tapes'', ''Dollars'' (''$''), ''The Horsemen'', ''Brian's Song'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra'', ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'', ''Butterflies Are Free'', ''Fat City'', ''The New Centurions'', ''Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different'', ''The Valachi Papers'', ''1776'', ''The National Health'', ''Lost Horizon'' (1973), ''The Way We Were'', ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'', ''The Last Detail'', ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', ''Tommy'', and Brian De Palma's ''Obsession''. | *April 1968-December 12, 1973, April 5, 1974, August 1, 1976: The drapery was temporarily pink during this era. Several films that feature this variant include ''Where Angels Go'', ''Trouble Follows!'', ''The Swimmer'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Hammerhead'', ''Funny Girl'', ''The Wrecking Crew'', ''Otley'', ''Model Shop'', ''MacKenna's Gold'', ''Easy Rider'', ''Castle Keep'', ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'', ''The Desperados'', ''Cactus Flower'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''The Owl and the Pussycat'', ''The Reckoning'', ''10 Rillington Place'', ''The Anderson Tapes'', ''Dollars'' (''$''), ''The Horsemen'', ''Brian's Song'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra'', ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'', ''Butterflies Are Free'', ''Fat City'', ''The New Centurions'', ''Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different'', ''The Valachi Papers'', ''1776'', ''The National Health'', ''Lost Horizon'' (1973), ''The Way We Were'', ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'', ''The Last Detail'', ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', ''Tommy'', and Brian De Palma's ''Obsession''. | ||