Sequence of frames for my favorite '70s /'80s-era studio logo. This one looks like it should open a Hong Kong action extravaganza. I first saw it on my laserdisc of Blow Out. It was accompanied by the sound of a heartbeat, part of Jack Terry's (John Travolta) sound mix of the film-within-a-film Coed Frenzy. I was disappointed when the DVD of Blow Out replaced this logo with a latter-era Orion logo. Filmways and Orion merged in 1983. As far as I can tell, Summer Lovers was the last Filmways feature film and the last one to use this logo. It was present in a 16mm print that I ran, but it is not on the DVD or recent cable broadcasts of the film. These captures come from the MGM-HD broadcast of Blow Out. You can read the history of Filmways here.
5 comments:
Shut, when was BLOW OUT on MGMHD??
Don't get too worked up, bobfreelander. This was in 2008 sometime. I'm sure it will show up again on MGM-HD.
very cool, it looks great(at least from the logo)! Glad I didnt miss it recently!
Hey, the Filmways Logo was also on The Criterion Collection Edition of BLOW OUT on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Indeed, I was very happy to see it on the Criterion edition.
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