Northern Lights Entertainment

Background
Northern Lights Entertainment was a film production company owned by filmmaker, Ivan Reitman. He later went on to start The Montecito Picture Company in the late 1990's with his son, Jason.

1st Logo (February 21-April 3, 1992)
Logo: On a black background, we see these words in the middle of the screen:

Northern Lights

ENTERTAINMENT

"Northern Lights" is written in an italic handwritten text while "ENTERTAINMENT" is written block text.

FX/SFX: None. This is a still logo.

Music/Sounds: None or the closing theme of the movie.

Availability: Rare. Seen at the end of ''Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and Beethoven''.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (December 17, 1993-June 12, 1998)
Logo: On a dark blue background, we open to something moving in the sky (akin to the Aurora Borealis that occurs in the high latitude Arctic/Antarctic regions). It slowly comes upward, the edges forming the outline of the name. The full logo appears and the background starts to brighten, showing the upper part of a mountainous woodland forest at sunrise. On the left of the logo, there is a pine tree standing on top of a cliff. The written part of the text is in white while the "ENTERTAINMENT" part is light pink.

Variants:
 * A short version of this logo was seen on Beethoven: The Animated Series.
 * At the end of Six Days, Seven Nights, the logo is cropped to 2.35:1.
 * 4:3 full-screen prints of films including Beethoven's 2nd, Junior, and Six Days, Seven Nights use an open-matte version with more information visible on the top and bottom, and sometimes very top and very bottom.

FX/SFX: The aurora light show on the sky.

Music/Sounds: Twinkling chimes followed by a majestic synth tune and a wolf's hooting howl (probably the classic "cartoon" sound effect).

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On Beethoven's 2nd, a piano synth tune with a choir is heard. A different (more realistic) wolf howl follows.
 * On Commandments and Beethoven: The Animated Series, it's the closing theme of the program.

Availability: Rare. Seen at the end of Beethoven's 2nd, Junior, The Late Shift, Private Parts, Commandments, and Six Days, Seven Nights. Don't expect to see the short version on Mummies Alive!, as that just used a copyright notice.

Editor's Note: None.