Cineriz

Background
Cineriz (short name for Cinema Rizzoli) was an Italian film company that was founded by Angelo Rizzoli in the early 1950s. The company shut down in 1993 as a result of series of economic and judiciary controversies, after they sold off their film library and left the industry in 1983.

1st Logo (1956?-1968)
Logo: On a dark blue patterned background, a thin white ring zooms up from the center of the screen, stopping as it reaches the center. After that, a outlined box zooms out with a blur effect with "Times New Roman" inside of it, along with the script text "presenta" below it, and the ring fades to. After a few seconds, a white star fades in around the upper right section of it.

Variants:
 * A B&W variant is used on earlier films.
 * A version has the logo on a black background, all in white, and "presenta" is not seen. The logo design is also slightly different. A still variant on a background appears on Una moglie americana.
 * The Return of Ringo just has the "Times New Roman presenta" text fade in.
 * Later films have the zoom out be seen The ring cuts are also bigger, the "presenta" text is rewritten, and the star is seen at a tilt.
 * On Vip, the logo is still on a light blue background, and notably has a handfull of design changes. The "Times New Roman" is now italicized and has a larger box, the star is larger and the ring, which is thicker, is cut right around it rather than being in it, and the bottom of the ring has the white text "'''DISTRIBUTORI ASSOCIATI S.P.A" replacing it. "Times New Roman" is also seen below in the same style as "Times New Roman".

Technique: Simple camera-based animation.

Music/Sounds: A cheerful-sounding orchestral fanfare, the opening theme of the movie, or none. A voice over can be heard on some prints.

Availability: Rare.
 * Seen on their film catalog around this time, like Totò d'Arabia, Padri e Figli di Mario Monicelli, 8½, among others.
 * The early variant appeared on La dolce vita.

2nd Logo (1968?-1983?)
Logo: On a black background, a model of a stellated dodecahedron rotates around clockwise as it zooms out, covered in -striped patterns that are projected onto the polygon. From here, more shapes and patterns will appear via a crossfade effect, with the old shapes being seen as well as the new ones for a second before disappearing: When it finally wraps back around to the dodecahedron, now in a cornflower blue, it zooms out as a flashing dark yellow star appear and encircles it while creating copies behind it. The polygon it was surrounding then fades out and the star stops flashing as it rest in the upper right corner, with the trails then disappearing as the Cineriz logo from the Vip variant fades in, but in forest green. The star then turns forest green as well.
 * A strange boxy polygon with stripes, spinning while it moves in from the left.
 * A hallway of -striped concentric boxes, with the boxes getting smaller, tilting and moving towards the upper right corner, as the camera zooms out.
 * A ball-like shape patterned in waves, rolling towards the camera as it reveals giant holes inside of it.
 * A extreme close-up of a polygonal shape rotating while covered in a lavender fishnet pattern.

Variant: Sometimes, "PRESENTA" in the Microgramma font appears below the logo.

Technique: Live-action model work, along with frame-based animation for the logo forming.

Music/Sounds: A re-orchestrated and longer version of the 1st logo's theme.

Availability: Uncommon. Seen on Il Prefetto di Ferro (The Iron Prefect), Il Secondo Tragico Fantozzi, Un Borghese Piccolo Piccolo, Charleston, and many other movies from this time period. Still retained on TV airings.

Legacy: This logo is loved by several due to the psychedelic nature of it.