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'''Visuals:''' While the animations are different, the end results are about the same: | '''Visuals:''' While the animations are different, the end results are about the same: | ||
* '''Version A (1968-1973):''' On a black background, a very small, white right triangle, along with a thick {{color|red}} line, both italicized, slide in from the right side of the screen. As the triangle reaches the center, both shapes grow and stretch into a much larger size, and the {{color|red}} box shrinks into a rectangle. This creates an empennage (the tail fin of an airplane) that's off-center. "'''AVCO'''" in a Microgramma font appears 2-by-2 on the white part, and "'''BROADCASTING CORPORATION'''" in a different font appears under the empennage, stacked on each other. Fading in with it is "{{color|gold|'''PRODUCTION'''}}" in the same font, but located under the {{color|red}} rectangle and much smaller, and a really small copyright notice reading "{{Small|©(year) '''AVCO BROADCASTING CORPORATION'''}}" also appears at the bottom of the screen. | * '''Version A (1968-1973):''' On a black background, a very small, white right triangle, along with a thick {{color|red}} line, both italicized, slide in from the right side of the screen. As the triangle reaches the center, both shapes grow and stretch into a much larger size, and the {{color|red}} box shrinks into a rectangle. This creates an empennage (the tail fin of an airplane) that's off-center. "'''AVCO'''" in a Microgramma font appears 2-by-2 on the white part, and "'''BROADCASTING CORPORATION'''" in a different font appears under the empennage, stacked on each other. Fading in with it is "{{color|gold|'''PRODUCTION'''}}" in the same font, but located under the {{color|red}} rectangle and much smaller, and a really small copyright notice reading "{{Small|©(year) '''AVCO BROADCASTING CORPORATION'''}}" also appears at the bottom of the screen. | ||
* '''Version B ( | * '''Version B (Early 1970s-1977)''': On a black background, a white triangle outline starts to zoom in, slowly extending as it does. As we go through it, several of the sides are revealed to be made of {{color|red}}, {{color|green}}, and {{color|dodgerblue|blue}} in several different arrangements. When it goes off-screen, four copies of the empennage in {{color|red}}, {{color|limegreen|green}}, {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, and {{color|gold|yellow}}, emerge from the corners of the screen and all come together to briefly form a white empennage before it fades to the Avco logo. The result is similar to the normal version, but the logo is centered with the text below it, and all of the text is in the Microgramma font as well. The text is also a bit smaller and more compact, "{{color|darkgray|'''PRODUCTION'''}}" is in {{color|darkgray|dark gray}}, and the copyright is much bigger as well. | ||
'''Trivia:''' This logo appeared as state of the art on design magazines the time it premiered. | '''Trivia:''' This logo appeared as state of the art on design magazines the time it premiered. | ||
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'''Audio Trivia:''' The synth whooshes from Version B were sampled in "Fired Up!" by Murk. | '''Audio Trivia:''' The synth whooshes from Version B were sampled in "Fired Up!" by Murk. | ||
'''Availability:''' | '''Availability:''' | ||
* Version A can be seen on ''Midsummer Rock'', early episodes of ''The Phil Donahue Show'', and ''The Paul Dixon Show'' (which has the music variant) which was last seen in 1998 with the logo intact. Version B | * Version A can be seen on ''Midsummer Rock'', early episodes of ''The Phil Donahue Show'', and ''The Paul Dixon Show'' (which has the music variant) which was last seen in 1998 with the logo intact. | ||
* | * Version B is only known to appear on later episodes of ''The Phil Donahue Show''. | ||
* The superimposed variant is seen on ''The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't'' and ''A Christmas Story'' (1971). | |||
{{Chronology||[[Multimedia Entertainment]]}} | {{Chronology||[[Multimedia Entertainment]]}} | ||