All American Fremantle International

Credits

Descriptions by
Stephen Cezar

Captures by
VPJHuk

Editions by
VPJHuk, Michael Kenchington and TheRealMarcel2000

Video captures courtesy of
Eric S., The AVTB Archives and Broken Saw (with special permission from Sagan Blob)

Background

All American Fremantle International, Inc. (formerly Talbot Television and Fremantle International) was an international division of Pearson Television (now "Fremantle") that was originally founded in the 1950s as Fremantle International, as a subsidiary of The Fremantle Corporation, until the international unit was sold in stages to Interpublic in 1989, until it was transferred to All American Television in 1994, and it was renamed to All American Fremantle International, which AAC bought out program rights from Fremantle International, but four years later, after All American Communications closed down in 1998, it was folded into Pearson Television. Its basic function was to produce shows for the international market.

Logo (1995-1998)

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Visuals: Virtually the same thing as the 1995 All American Television logo, but with the glowing white "FREMANTLE" in Copperplate Gothic, replacing "ALL AMERICAN TELEVISION" and has the byline "A Pearson Television Company" below it.

Variants:

• Four are known to exist at this time:
  • For Germany, the text "FREMANTLE" is in bold Times New Roman, and the byline "Fernsehproduktions GmbH" appears underneath in a smaller version of the same font. It either wipes in or stretches in.
  • For the Greek version, the words "FREMANTLE HELLAS" appear stacked, underneath the logo. The font used is a thin, san serif font, like Arial.
  • For the UK version, the text reads "FREMANTLE (UK) PRODUCTIONS LTD", also in the same Futura font.
    • On the first year with the UK version it reads "TALBOT TELEVISION LTD." in a Times New Roman font.
  • For Swedish and Polish regions and for other countries until 1996, the thin Futura font version is used, but the words are "ALL AMERICAN FREMANTLE INTERNATIONAL INC".
    • A Polish copyright licensing variant of the thin font version exists.
• There are also two other versions where this logo is shown with the Carlton or the 1988 BBC logo on the bottom with their copyright notices on them.
• On some shows, a short version existed.
• On Highway Hangouts, the logo is in black background and says "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" at the top, and "ALL AMERICAN FREMANTLE" at the bottom.
• In-credit versions of the logo exist on the Hebrew version of Let's Make a Deal and the French versions of The Price is Right and Family Feud.
• Sometimes, either the 2D print or the 3D print version of this logo is shown.
• Sometimes, the logo is still.

Technique: Same as the 1995 All American Television logo.

Audio: The 1995 All American Television theme, a closing theme of the show or none.

Audio Variants:

• Sometimes, a short version of the 1995 theme exists.
• On a January 1996 episode of the German version of Jeopardy!, the logo is accompanied by a German announcer over the end theme of the show.

Availability:

• The standard (first) version was resurfaced on a Polish TV show aptly named Miodowe lata.
• Comments on the video of the version above led to the discovery of the two other variants. The German variant was found on a January 1996 episode of the German version of Jeopardy! on YouTube, while the Greek version was found on a 1995 episode of Ο Τροχός Της Τύχης, the Greek version of Wheel of Fortune.
• The thin font version has been spotted in 2 Mot 1 and Idź na całość.
• The UK version was kept intact on Challenge airings of Play Your Cards Right, Bruce's Price is Right and Dale's Supermarket Sweep as well as the BBC version of Blockbusters.
• However in 1999, it stopped using this logo strangely, and it was switched to the 1997 Pearson Television International logo or sometimes, the 1997 Grundy logo.

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