Touchstone Pictures: Difference between revisions

'''Visuals:''' On a black/salmon gradient background is a blue ball with a yellow streak cut into it diagonally. Underneath it is the following blue text (set in Trump Mediaeval):

<center><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">T O U C H S T O N E</span><br>

<small><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">F I L M S</span></small></center>

*Contrary to popular belief, the yellow streak isn't a thunderbolt. In ancient Rome and Greece, people needed a way to test the quality of precious metals, like gold. So as a result, jewelers would rub precious metals against a block of rough stone, called a touchstone. This would leave a fine trace of the metal's alloy on the stone's surface. By visually examining the quality of that sample, a trained eye could judge its purity. Putting this in mind, the blue ball represents the physical touchstone while the "streak" or "lightning bolt" represents the gold tracing left on the stone's surface. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvOxLuwtj4 This video] is evidence/the source.

'''Visuals:''' The logo starts on a blue background, which then shrinks into a ball on a black background that zooms out into the upper center portion of the screen. After it takes a small dip, it heads toward the background where it flashes and turns into the ball from the 1st logo. The streak shines as the background lightens up with salmon concentric circles, which get dimmer the farther out they go. The text from before then fades in below.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, a blue oblong moves from the right side of the screen to the left. As it shrinks to the left of the screen, the stacked text "{{Font|Times New Roman|TOUCHSTONE PICTURES}}" (in the same font as the last two logos) slides next to it. After the oblong morphs into a ball, the text shines from right to left before hitting the ball, which flashes and glows orange, gaining the streak from the last two logos on it.

* For the first two years of this logo's use, "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">FILMS</span>" is seen instead of "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">PICTURES</span>". The "shining" of the letters is also difficult to see and the flash is bigger. This version appears on ''My Science Project'', ''Down and Out in Beverly Hills'', ''Off Beat'', ''Ruthless People'', and ''The Color of Money''.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the streak from the previous logo flashes and zooms back onto a grey-blue sphere. After that, the stacked text "{{Font|Times New Roman|TOUCHSTONE P I C T U R E S}}" (set in Trajan Bold) zooms out underneath the sphere, and a shadow is then lit up. The streak also lets out orange light flares that die down when the text settles in place.

* Sometimes, the logo is tinted blue.