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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFoYCy4YSI) This is the only YouTube clip I can find of it and it's cut off. Anyone know who composed it?
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* Sometimes, it used an updated version of the 1936-1947 fanfare (composed by Miklos Rosza for the 1982 film ''Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid''); this tune was mostly heard over the logo of [[Universal Pay Television]]. | * Sometimes, it used an updated version of the 1936-1947 fanfare (composed by Miklos Rosza for the 1982 film ''Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid''); this tune was mostly heard over the logo of [[Universal Pay Television]]. | ||
* On a print of ''The Projected Man'' featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', the logo curiously uses the Les Baxter-composed fanfare from the 1960-1963 American International Pictures logo (which was actually used for the logo of a British company called Compton Films, also the UK distributor). However, the Shout! Factory Blu-ray just uses the opening theme. | * On a print of ''The Projected Man'' featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', the logo curiously uses the Les Baxter-composed fanfare from the 1960-1963 American International Pictures logo (which was actually used for the logo of a British company called Compton Films, also the UK distributor). However, the Shout! Factory Blu-ray just uses the opening theme. | ||
* ''Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life'' has its own unique fanfare (only on the main feature, not the preceding short feature ''The Crimson Permanent Assurance''), which was reused on the second disc of the 2003 special edition DVDs. | |||
'''Availability:''' Common; was used for a total of 27 years, making it the longest-used logo since the classic era of movies. | '''Availability:''' Common; was used for a total of 27 years, making it the longest-used logo since the classic era of movies. | ||