Draft:ABC News 20/20
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Background
1st Logo (1985-89)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7hWT_J5NNY Visuals: Starts on a blurry close-up view of the former globe logo of ABC News, as a magnifying glass rises up from the bottom left of the screen. This glass expands to take in the whole of that globe, before stamping the axis on the globe. The glass then folds up and becomes the slash mark between the 20s in the title; the slash mark then opens up as the 20s separate, giving way to shots of Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters as Bob Cruz bills them. This effect occurs once more when the opening concludes and the title track ends, and this one gives way to a live-action shot of either Downs or Walters, or (at least once) both at once. On at least one broadcast, this opening does not appear, instead cutting to a commercial.
Technique: Unknown.
Audio: The 20/20 version of the ABC News music by Bob Israel. Announcer Bob Cruz also says, "On the ABC News magazine, 20/20, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters..."
Audio Variants:
Availability: Seen on several 20/20 broadcasts on YouTube.
2nd Logo (1989-90)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3tOPDCV6U
Visuals: The ABC News logo of the time, this one without a globe (it was like this until 1982 or '83), passes diagonally right-to-left across the screen, while a piece of reflective material enters. This reflective material is then revealed to make up the bottom of one of the 20s in the title (the right-hand one); we pass along that bottom as it is built up. We then zoom out from that 20, and move to the left, where the other 20 enters, as four more pieces of reflective mirror material come in behind the two 20s to make a background for the title. The slash mark between the 20s then comes in as the title is completed and the mirror background shines and becomes transparent. At the end of the opening, the completed title is shown once more, and the dateline of the week's broadcast is shown; that graphic then peels away to Hugh and Barbara.
Audio: The 20/20 version of the ABC News music by Bob Israel. The show's iconic title sequence line is introduced here, as Bob Cruz says, "From ABC News...around the world and into your home, the stories that touch your life...with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, this is 20/20." This title sequence is also the first to have the dateline of the week's broadcast announced, as Cruz also says, "Those stories tonight: (date of broadcast)."
Availability: Seen on two 1989-90 season 20/20 broadcasts on YouTube.
