Allied Artists Pictures Corporation started life as a subsidiary of Monogram Pictures that was established in 1946 as an outlet for films with more well-known cast members and higher budgets than films that Monogram Pictures produced. Monogram Pictures continued to produce "B" movies through 1952, while the studio's special attractions were released as Allied Artists Productions. In 1953, the company dropped the Monogram name and functioned as a single entity, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. For better or for worse, one of its better known films today is Mitchell (1975) which was spoofed/reviewed in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Although the studio produced and/or distributed major films such as Papillon, Cabaret and The Man Who Would Be King, it met with financial catastrophe and filed for bankruptcy in 1979. Lorimar Motion Pictures purchased the former Allied Artists Pictures Corporation film library in 1980. With Warner Communications (now Time Warner) purchasing Lorimar-Telepictures in 1989, most of the Allied Artists Pictures Corporation library (including some Monogram Pictures films) became owned by Warner Bros. Pictures. The name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation continues to be used as the name of a film distribution and production company owned by an entertainment company called Allied Artists International (formed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in 1971 as Allied Artists Records before becoming a separate company and eventually acquiring the trademarks to the Allied Artists name).
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| 1st Logo (May 1, 1949-1953) | 2nd Logo (June 21, 1953-1966) | 3rd Logo (December 16, 1973-November 11, 1978) | 4th Logo (2000s-) |
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Early variant
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Normal version
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Color variant
Visuals: The logo fades in and unveils a structure with two searchlights on the side and a slow-moving cloudy background. Then, the structure, consisting of "ALLIED ARTISTS" with the two "A"'s connected together, all in a concrete texture on a pedestal similar to the 20th Century Fox logo design, is illuminated. Shortly after, "Presents" fades in below the structure.
Variants:
Technique: Model work.
Audio: The opening theme of the film.
Availability: Seen on some films distributed under the Allied Artists Pictures brand from this era which includes Stampede, I Was an American Spy, and The Highwaymen.
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The Persuader variant
In-credit variant
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Tormented variant
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Early version
Later version
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Shadow variant
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At Gunpoint variant
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Love in the Afternoon variant
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The Tall Stranger variant
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Gold logo variant
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Never Love a Stranger variant
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The Big Circus variant
Visuals: There is two connected A's engraved in a line segmented rectangle on a sky background. "llied" is seen next to the first A, while "rtists" is seen next to the A below the first. "PRODUCTIONS, INC" is seen below the logo and "presents" is seen farther underneath.
Variants:
Technique: A still card produced on print.
Audio: The opening theme of the film.
Availability: The in-credit one appears on most films distributed and/or produced by the company such as At Gunpoint.
Legacy: From 1966 to 1972, Allied Artists would use an in-credit notice. After the success of Cabaret, they would resume production on new films, resulting in a new identity.
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Standard version
Open-matte variant
Later variant
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Papillon/The Internecine Project variant
Three the Hard Way variant
Older Mitchell print variant
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Twilight's Last Gleaming open-matte variant
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B&W variant
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The Betsy variant
Visuals: There is a green background shorten into a circle, with white surrounding it. After the white circle is small enough, we now see that the white figure is a large lowercase "a", with a backwards "a" the same size next to it zooming out to the from the left, and settling in the middle of the screen. When it's done zooming, it reads:
Emanuel L. Wolf
presents
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An Allied Artists Film
Variants:
Technique: Camera-controlled animation.
Audio: Usually silent, or sometimes the film's opening theme accompanies it.
Availability: It is currently unknown when this logo made its debut. Allied Artists became a distributor after the release of Tickle Me, and did not become a producer again until Cabaret. Still intact on The Man Who Would Be King, Three The Hard Way, and The Internecine Project, among others. Sometimes, it is plastered with a WB shield on films such as Papillon, where the logo made its first appearance. It plasters the previous logo on the Allied Artists Video releases of Tickle Me, Panic Button, and House on Haunted Hill.
Visuals: The two a's, in gold, move towards each other from both sides of the screen. The two then bounce off each other and a circle in the same color animates around it, the two then bounce off their side of the circle and come to a stop next to each other. The text "ALLIED ARTISTS" fades in under the letters. The registered trademark symbol appears next to the right-side "a".
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: When the letters are moving towards each other, there is a bombastic fanfare. After they make contact and the circle animates, a high-pitched xylophone plays.
Availability: Should be on any recent films distributed and/or produced by the company. It can also be seen before some videos on the YouTube channel alliedartists.
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