Crawleys Animation
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Logo Archive
(January 3, 1987-March 26, 1988)
Logo: On a dark blue grid against a navy blue gradient background, the white word "crawleys", all in lower-case Helvetica/Rail Alphabet, moves from top center to slighty-off middle center from off-screen. From far off-center in the horizon, the red Crawleys symbol, which looks across between a semi-quaver and an eye, zooms in and rests to the right of the text. Both the text and the symbol have drop-down shadows. a yellow star shines in the "pupil" of the eye before disappearing.
Variant: On Dennis The Menace, the animation only shows the star shining, just when it fades in.
Technique: The star shining and disappearing.
Music/Sounds: The same Atkinson Film-Arts jingle. On Dennis The Menace, only the 2nd half is played.
Availability: Rare. It was first seen on the obscure direct-to-video movie Meerkats, and original airings of S2 episodes of the 1986 Dennis The Menace cartoon, but sadly is not retained on recent releases of said show. The logo can be found on the UK VHS "Menaced Marriage and 7 Other Madcap Episodes".
Legacy: Simplistic animation, but cleaner than the 1st Atkinson Film-Arts. Despite the company being renamed to this, the former name was used more often than this strangely, making this a rather wasted effort.
