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'''FX/SFX:''' The star zooming, the bar moving and the rainbow forming are all early CGI animation. | '''FX/SFX:''' The star zooming, the bar moving and the rainbow forming are all early CGI animation. | ||
'''Music/Sounds:''' A beautiful orchestral fanfare composed by John Barry, which was originally used as the theme for ''Raise the Titanic''. Sometimes, it is silent or out of sync with the animation. | '''Music/Sounds:''' A beautiful orchestral fanfare composed by John Barry, which was originally used as the theme for ''Raise the Titanic''. | ||
'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' Sometimes, it is silent or out of sync with the animation. | |||
'''Availability:''' Until just recently, this logo was near extinction and was thought to be lost to elusive UK theatrical prints and VHS copies. | '''Availability:''' Until just recently, this logo was near extinction and was thought to be lost to elusive UK theatrical prints and VHS copies. | ||
*Like the previous logo, this one was only seen on UK 35mm release prints of ITC productions and titles they only distributed from 1982-1987. Films that had logo include ''The Great Muppet Caper'', ''The Salamander'', ''The Evil that Men Do'', ''Green Ice'', ''Where the Boys Are '84'', etc. It may have been seen on UK theatrical prints of the 1984 ''Little Nemo'' pilot film (which was billed as a short feature at some screenings of the Canadian movie ''Running Brave'', also distributed by ITC). Appeared on the 1983 pre-cert [[Guild Home Video (UK)|Guild Home Video]] VHS release of ''Cujo'', the original pre-cert [[Hokushin Audio Visual (UK)|Hokushin Audio Visual]] VHS releases of ''Gregory's Girl'', ''Q: The Winged Serpent'', and the Videospace UK VHS of ''La Traviata'' (1982). | * Like the previous logo, this one was only seen on UK 35mm release prints of ITC productions and titles they only distributed from 1982-1987. | ||
*Like the previous logo, it may have been seen on other pre-certification VHS releases by [[ITC Home Video (UK)|ITC Home Video]]. | * Films that had logo include ''The Great Muppet Caper'', ''The Salamander'', ''The Evil that Men Do'', ''Green Ice'', ''Where the Boys Are '84'', etc. | ||
*This logo has most recently surfaced on the UK Network Blu-ray of ''Whoops Apocalypse'' (1986). It is also reportedly present on the Network UK BDs of the ''Space: 1999'' movies ''Cosmic Princess'' and ''Journey Through the Black Sun'' (which had the previous logo on some early UK theatrical copies). | * It may have been seen on UK theatrical prints of the 1984 ''Little Nemo'' pilot film (which was billed as a short feature at some screenings of the Canadian movie ''Running Brave'', also distributed by ITC). | ||
* Appeared on the 1983 pre-cert [[Guild Home Video (UK)|Guild Home Video]] VHS release of ''Cujo'', the original pre-cert [[Hokushin Audio Visual (UK)|Hokushin Audio Visual]] VHS releases of ''Gregory's Girl'', ''Q: The Winged Serpent'', and the Videospace UK VHS of ''La Traviata'' (1982). | |||
* Like the previous logo, it may have been seen on other pre-certification VHS releases by [[ITC Home Video (UK)|ITC Home Video]]. | |||
* This logo has most recently surfaced on the UK Network Blu-ray of ''Whoops Apocalypse'' (1986). | |||
* It is also reportedly present on the Network UK BDs of the ''Space: 1999'' movies ''Cosmic Princess'' and ''Journey Through the Black Sun'' (which had the previous logo on some early UK theatrical copies). | |||
'''Editor's Note:''' Though it's not as well-known as the previous logo, the animation is still pretty good for its time. | '''Editor's Note:''' Though it's not as well-known as the previous logo, the animation is still pretty good for its time. | ||