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*Recent prints of ''The Roots of Heaven'' have the 1994 fanfare play over the CinemaScope variant. | *Recent prints of ''The Roots of Heaven'' have the 1994 fanfare play over the CinemaScope variant. | ||
*The original 1977 Magnetic Video release of ''Fantastic Voyage'' has the opening flourish of the Magnetic Video music mistakenly play during the first half of the fanfare. | *The original 1977 Magnetic Video release of ''Fantastic Voyage'' has the opening flourish of the Magnetic Video music mistakenly play during the first half of the fanfare. | ||
* [[Netflix Originals|Netflix]] prints of ''French Connection II'' use an abridged recording of the CinemaScope extension from ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1999 arrangement). | *[[Netflix Originals|Netflix]] prints of ''French Connection II'' use an abridged recording of the CinemaScope extension from ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1999 arrangement). | ||
*The VHS release of ''Young Guns II'' has this logo with the 1979 music playing over it instead. | *The VHS release of ''Young Guns II'' has this logo with the 1979 music playing over it instead. | ||
* On a Spanish copy of ''History of the World: Part I'', this logo has the 1981 [[Gaumont]] fanfare due to poor plastering. | *On a Spanish copy of ''History of the World: Part I'', this logo has the 1981 [[Gaumont]] fanfare due to poor plastering. | ||
*On a Swedish 16mm print of ''Star Wars'' (''Stjärnornas krig''), the second drum roll is repeated, cutting out the first. | *On a Swedish 16mm print of ''Star Wars'' (''Stjärnornas krig''), the second drum roll is repeated, cutting out the first. | ||
* On ''Damnation Alley'', the second half of the CinemaScope fanfare is cut. | *On ''Damnation Alley'', the second half of the CinemaScope fanfare is cut. | ||
'''Availability:''' With some exceptions, | '''Availability:''' With some exceptions, this logo is seen on releases from Fox from the time-period starting with ''The Robe'', and used in tandem with the first logo and the next-two logos. | ||
*This logo made its official debut with ''The Robe'' (released on September 16, 1953), the first motion picture filmed in CinemaScope. It allegedly made its final official appearance on ''Wall Street'' (released on December 11, 1987), but it remains unknown if it actually appeared on originally theatrical prints; all current prints of the film replace it with the 4th logo. Nonetheless, this logo is still retained on most Fox releases from this period. | *This logo made its official debut with ''The Robe'' (released on September 16, 1953), the first motion picture filmed in CinemaScope. It allegedly made its final official appearance on ''Wall Street'' (released on December 11, 1987), but it remains unknown if it actually appeared on originally theatrical prints; all current prints of the film replace it with the 4th logo. Nonetheless, this logo is still retained on most Fox releases from this period. | ||
*The CinemaScope variants aren't usually subject to plastering; however, an early 2000s AMC print of ''Satan Never Sleeps'' plastered it with the 4th logo. | *The CinemaScope variants aren't usually subject to plastering; however, an early 2000s AMC print of ''Satan Never Sleeps'' plastered it with the 4th logo. | ||
**However, it is still retained on DVD releases of the film and on one FMC airing. | |||
*Among the last films to use the CinemaScope variants in their original run were ''Von Ryan's Express'', which was predominantly filmed in Panavision at the insistence of star Frank Sinatra, ''Fantastic Voyage'', and the ''Flint'' films. | *Among the last films to use the CinemaScope variants in their original run were ''Von Ryan's Express'', which was predominantly filmed in Panavision at the insistence of star Frank Sinatra, ''Fantastic Voyage'', and the ''Flint'' films. | ||
*This logo is retained on the original theatrical versions of ''Star Wars'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back'' on their 2006 DVD releases, but is still plastered with the 4th logo on the remastered "Special Edition" versions. | *This logo is retained on the original theatrical versions of ''Star Wars'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back'' on their 2006 DVD releases, but is still plastered with the 4th logo on the remastered "Special Edition" versions. | ||
*The international version of ''Chariots of Fire'' also originally | *The international version of ''Chariots of Fire'' also originally featured this logo, although the current UK DVD release plasters it with the 1994 logo. However, it was left intact on a recent Sky TV airing and on the [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner]] Blu-ray of the international version. | ||
*The original Key Video VHS releases of ''Moving Violation'' and ''Thunder and Lightning'' plaster this with the 4th logo; the former restored it on current prints and the [[Shout! Factory]] DVD, but the latter plasters it while keeping the original abridged fanfare. | *The original Key Video VHS releases of ''Moving Violation'' and ''Thunder and Lightning'' plaster this with the 4th logo; the former restored it on current prints and the [[Shout! Factory]] DVD release, but the latter plasters it while keeping the original abridged fanfare. | ||
*Some releases of ''Alien'' and its director's cut plaster this with the 3rd logo, but it | *Some releases of ''Alien'' and its director's cut plaster this with the 3rd logo, but it is still retained on the original 1981 VHS, the 1999 theatrical DVD, and the recent Blu-ray releases. | ||
* This logo can also be found some early-to-mid-1980s films of the era, such as ''The Cannonball Run'' (albeit as a variant), older video releases of ''Bill Cosby: Himself'', the original CBS/Fox Video release of ''Revenge of the Nerds'', the original Key Video VHS of ''The Buddy System'', ''Moving Violations'', and the CBS/Fox VHS of ''Project X'' (1987). It also | *This logo can also be found some early-to-mid-1980s films of the era, such as ''The Cannonball Run'' (albeit as a variant), older video releases of ''Bill Cosby: Himself'', the original CBS/Fox Video release of ''Revenge of the Nerds'', the original Key Video VHS release of ''The Buddy System'', ''Moving Violations'', and the CBS/Fox VHS release of ''Project X'' (1987). It is also intact on older U.S. cable prints of ''Young Guns'' and older VHS copies of ''Young Guns II''; however, the letterbox LaserDisc release of the latter film uses the 4th logo. Later home video/DVD releases and TV prints of these films plaster it with the either the 4th logo or those from another distributor. | ||
*Current prints of ''Avalanche Express'' (which [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] acquired from Fox with its purchase of the [[Lorimar Film Entertainment|Lorimar]] film library) plaster this with the 1998 WB logo, but it | *Current prints of ''Avalanche Express'' (which [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] acquired from Fox with its purchase of the [[Lorimar Film Entertainment|Lorimar]] film library) plaster this with the 1998 WB logo, but it is still intact on the Spanish R2 DVD release. No logo appears at all on the Warner Home Video VHS release thereof. | ||
* | *This logo does not appar at all on ''Carmen Jones'', ''The Girl Can't Help It'', ''A Circle of Deception'', ''The Longest Day'', ''Zorba the Greek'', ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'', ''The Cape Town Affair'', ''The Day the Fish Came Out'', ''Star!'', ''Deadfall'', ''Patton'' (some TV broadcasts spliced in a logo from another film), ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''Trouble Man'', ''The Poseidon Adventure'', U.S. prints of ''The Towering Inferno'', ''At Long Last Love'', ''The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother'', ''Silent Movie'', ''Prudence and the Pill'', or ''All This and World War II''. | ||
*The 1976 revision makes an appearance on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of ''Naked Lunch''. | *The 1976 revision makes an appearance on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of ''Naked Lunch''. | ||
*This also | *This logo can also be found on the Vestron VHS release of ''Fort Apache: The Bronx'' and on a Trifecta syndicated print of ''Oh Heavenly Dog!'' (which Paramount/Trifecta owns the television rights to via Mulberry Square Productions). | ||
*''Southern Comfort'' was originally seen with the 1976 revision of this logo; it can be seen on some older European copies of the film, preceded by the [[Overseas Filmgroup]] logo. | *''Southern Comfort'' was originally seen with the 1976 revision of this logo; it can be seen on some older European copies of the film, preceded by the [[Overseas Filmgroup]] logo. | ||
*The original [[Blay Video]] VHS of ''Magic'' (1978) retains this logo, but not on the LaserDisc release; it's unknown if other releases of this film retain this logo. | *The original [[Blay Video]] VHS release of ''Magic'' (1978) retains this logo, but not on the LaserDisc release; it's unknown if other releases of this film retain this logo. | ||
* | *This logo is also seen at the beginning of the original CBS/Fox VHS of the ''M*A*S*H'' series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen". | ||
*This logo might also | *This logo might also be seen on theatrical German/Argentine prints of titles from [[Walt Disney Productions]]/[[Walt Disney Pictures|Pictures]] and [[Touchstone Pictures|Touchstone]], as Fox had distribution rights to Disney's output in most countries such as Germany and Argentina until 1987. | ||
* The audio from this logo makes an appearance at the start of the launch trailer for the 2011 mobile game ''Angry Birds Rio''. | *The audio from this logo also makes an appearance at the start of the launch trailer for the 2011 mobile game ''Angry Birds Rio''. | ||
*Additionally, | *Additionally, this logo precedes the [[Toho Co., Ltd.|Toho]] logo on Criterion prints of Akira Kurosawa's ''Kagemusha'', and it is also seen on current international prints, but without the Toho logo. | ||
'''Legacy:''' It was often given the unofficial nickname of "Slanted Zero" thanks to its intended design. Some have seen the zero in the logo as off-putting, though more have seen this logo in a more favorable light for its design and extended fanfare. | '''Legacy:''' It was often given the unofficial nickname of "Slanted Zero" thanks to its intended design. Some have seen the zero in the logo as off-putting, though more have seen this logo in a more favorable light for its design and extended fanfare. | ||