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Did You Know The Secret Behind These Ten Famous Hollywood Studio Logos?

By Andrew Alpin, 14 June 2017

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7 Warner Brothers

Warner Brothers’ logo has been updated several times since inception. The main concept of the initials of the four brothers embedded in a shield named the “Brain Shield” has always remained.

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The last name of the Brothers wasn’t exactly their original name. The four brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack were born to immigrant parents from Russia whose last name was Wonskolaser prior to Anglicization.

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8 Walt Disney Pictures

The fairy tale castle has always been the consistent logo of Walt Disney studios. But! Before 2006, the company actually featured a white sleeping Beauty castle inspired by the Neuschwasntein castle in Germany.

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The logo was updated in 2006 and made its first appearance in Pirates of the Caribbean, dead Man’s Chest. The updated design incorporated elements from the Sleeping Beauty Castle and the Cinderella Castle.

Walt Disney Pictures logo

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9 Castle Rock

The name for this entertainment studio was inspired by the fictional town that author Stephen King uses as a setting for many of his novels. Castlerock has adapted several of King’s books into films.

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The logo features a lighthouse used in the 1933 horror film based on King’s novel of the same name “needful Things”.

Castle Rock logo meaning

Castle Rock

10 TriStar

The Pegasus Unicorn adorning the Tri-Star logo has become a cultural icon . The logo was inspired by Executive Victor Kaufman’s family who loved horse riding. The first logo also featured the same horse used kin Sydney Pollack’s 1979 western romance, “The electric Horseman”.

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The white stallion in the latest logo was filmed at an airport in Santa Monica. The feathers were a combination of CGIO and actual footage. The background was incorporated from film footage shot in the Haleakala Crater in Maui.

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