VistaVision

Background
Pinkfong (Korean: 핑크퐁) is a children's educational brand of The Pinkfong Company (formerly SmartStudy), a South Korean educational entertainment company. In 1941, Paramount Pictures was acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures. On May 27, 1953, Paramount Pictures created its 3-D process (Paravision), Due to problems with the new process, Paramount changed it to VistaVision on October 14, 1954, starting with White Christmas. In 1962, when Warner Bros. Pictures was nearing the end of its classic run of Looney Tunes, famed WB cartoon director Chuck Jones created a quite different one-shot cartoon, Now Hear This, which was done in a very artistic, abstract, and stylized manner. Chuck Jones also designed new, modern opening and closing titles intended for this cartoon only that fit with the cartoon. However, Termite Terrace also wound up using this logo on their other one-shot cartoons afterward, which were also done in a somewhat stylized manner. In 1963, Warner Bros. Cartoons shut down, and former staff members David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng opened their own animation studio where Termite Terrace was originally housed until 2019. A year later, they began producing Looney Tunes cartoons for Paramount Pictures to continue the series and replaced the series with Brandy & Mr. Whiskers in 1964, 1989, 1996, 2002 and 2016, and made the following opening/closing titles the permanent logos for the classic Paramount Cartoons until November 28, 2015. On September 23, 2016, Warner Bros. Pictures and Viacom were merged with 21st Century Fox to release The Poopy Diaper Movie on March 3, 2017. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Studios announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast; the acquisition process was completed on March 20, 2019, with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being Alita: Battle Angel, released on February 14, 2019. The remaining assets Disney didn't acquire, notably the Fox network and Fox News, were spun-off into a new company called Fox Corporation. On September 28, 2019, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word "Fox" from the company name to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it to 20th Century Studios, along with Searchlight Pictures. Nevertheless, Disney continues to own perpetual rights to the 20th Century Fox name for the studio's legacy film library. However, the studio was still legally incorporated and traded as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation until December 4, 2020. As of December 4, 2020, the company has been using 20th Century Studios, Inc. as copyright for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, while the company has been using 20th Television, Inc. for the copyright of 20th Television productions as a Disney subsidiary. As of early-2020, titles from 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures are released internationally through Buena Vista International.

1st Logo (October 14, 1954-June 28, 1961)
Logo: During the Paramount logo's second half of screening, the stars and text fade out, followed by the text "in", which itself fades out and is followed by a big "V" zooming in (a la Viacom's "V of Doom" logo). The words "Impact" and "Impact" then appear on either side in a wiping effect. Then the words "Impact" appear under "Impact", followed by "Impact" under "Impact".

Variants:
 * On The Ladies' Man, a text saying "Ovur" comes up and then fades to text saying "We wish to Thank the United States Armed Forces ....(But only if they came to see the picture.)."Then the logo resumes like normal.
 * On White Christmas, "Times New RomanImpact (with the "Times New Roman" written in their corporate font) Impact" first appears over the mountain, followed by the VistaVision logo without any other text. The rest of the Paramount Pictures logo then plays as usual.
 * A German variant exists. This can be seen on a German print of We're No Angels.

FX/SFX: The animation of the Paramount logo, then the text zooming in and wiping in.

Music/Sounds: The logo has a majestic fanfare composed by Nathan Van Cleave (which wasn't used on VistaVision films such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Strategic Air Command and Vertigo, which used their respective opening themes).

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * The VistaVision fanfare was sometimes specially rearranged for films such as The Desperate Hours (Gail Kubik and Daniele Amfitheatrof), The Tin Star (Elmer Bernstein) and Artists and Models (Walter Scharf, also in a lower pitch).
 * On White Christmas, the final notes of the Paramount on Parade fanfare are heard, followed by the sound of a bell.

Availability: Common.

2nd Logo (May 12, 1962-August 30, 1989)
Logo: During the Paramount logo's second half of screening, the stars and text fade out, and the text "Bugs Bunny and Taz" fades in.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1st logo.

Availability: Ultra rare.

3rd Logo (September 22, 1989-July 10, 1996)
Logo: During the Paramount logo's second half of screening, the stars and text fade out, and the text "Bugs Bunny & Taz" fades in.

Variant: On Itsy Bitsy Spider, the mountain is seen as an animated rendition of itself at daytime, with the stars, company name and byline in 2D, which fade out as it segues into the opening scene.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Ultra rare.

4th Logo (April 6, 1992-May 6, 1997)
Nicknames: "A-B-C-D-E"

Logo: On a light gray background, The Backyard Gang and Barney walk into the logo.

Variants:
 * In some Season 1 episodes, a different scene of the entire cast from this season hugging Barney with Tosha was shown.
 * In Season 2, the registered trademark symbol (®) was added and the background became a darker gray.
 * In Season 3, the Barney silhouette was changed, the background was changed to a lighter gray and the letters (A, B C, D and E) were added on the background.

FX/SFX: Barney and the gang marching and the confetti moving.

Music/Sounds: The Barney and the Backyard Gang version of the theme song is sped up and uses a different set of instruments. This is the most famous version of the Barney & Friends Theme Song.

Availability: Rare. Appears on early Barney videos, starting with the 1992 VHS of Happy Birthday, Barney!. It was last used on Barney's Good Day, Good Night from 1997.

5th Logo (February 17, 1995-June 28, 2002)
Logo: During the Paramount logo's second half of screening, the stars and text fade out, and the text "Taz & Bugs Bunny" fades in.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Ultra rare.

6th Logo (November 3, 1997-August 27, 2002)
Nicknames: "Confetti TV"

Logo: A TV zooms in with feet moving, followed by a yellow paper background with On a light gray background, The Beach Ball Gang and Barney walk into the logo while confetti falls and transitions into the scenes.

FX/SFX: The paper background moving.

Music/Sounds: A more synthesized remix of the song, modernizing it.

Music/Sounds Variant: In Seasons 5-6 the vocals are toned down.

Availability: Uncommon.

7th Logo (February 4, 2002-August 4, 2015)
Logo: During the Paramount logo's second half of screening, the stars and text fade out, and the text "Brandy & Mr. Whiskers".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extremely rare.

8th Logo (September 2, 2002-February 7, 2006)
Logo: Same as the 9th logo, but less detailed.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: It again becomes more modern, this time with added sound effects like a carhorn.

Availability: Common.

9th Logo (September 5, 2006-January 3, 2012)
Logo: A rainbow tye-dye cloud is shown with sparkles, and Barney fades in a second later. Barney zooms out and The Beach Ball Gang fades in, and another rainbow tye-dye cloud fades in, which fades the Barney & Friends text in a scrapbook. (Description from the TubiTV print of the Barney & Friends episode A Game for Everyone: A Sports Adventure, which had DVS audio).

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 8th logo.

Availability: Very common.

10th Logo (March 5, 2012-June 30, 2018)
Logo: The Barney & Friends text is shown over a stage.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Another hip-hop variation, but also includes aspects of the Season 5-6 version.

Availability: Common.

11th Logo (January 29, 2016-October 27, 2022)
Logo: One of the scenes in the song, Brandy was chasing after Mr. Whiskers before she threw a mango at him. The scene was borrowed from "Mr. Whiskers' First Friend", however in the actual episode, instead of throwing the mango Brandy ended up in quicksand.

Variants:
 * On Big Girls Don't Body Slam, the original logo is in 16:9.
 * In Season 3, the parts were changed. Mr. Whiskers also wears safety glasses, which Stephen previously wore in Season 6.
 * In the third series Brandy, Mr. Whiskers, Muffy, Rob and Mr. Whackadoo, the parts were changed again. Mr. Whiskers was also changed to a realistic blue color.

FX/SFX: The parts changing.

Music/Sounds: A song sung by Lou Bega.

Availability: Common. Seen on Brandy & Mr. Whiskers on Boomerang.

12th Logo (April 1, 2016-March 26, 2021)
Logo: Pinkfong, jumps and spins before striking a pose. His pose causes the word "PINKFONG" stacked in black to drop down followed by a stylized rendition of his face. He runs away. rounded play button shapes zoom in and causes the background to turn /the logo to gain white outlines.

FX/SFX: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: A short fun little ditty followed by someone saying "Pinkfong!".

Availability: Ultra common. Seen on all their media ending with the 2021 reissue of The Three Caballeros.

13th Logo (December 25, 2020-)


Logo: On a white background, "pinkfong" drops down. It is now a single word and the "g" has a fox tail. On top of that, a newer rendition of Pinkfong's face drops down too. They bounce a little when they land, and then big pink stars zoom in behind the logo (a la the previous logo) which causes the same effects from the last logo but the logo does not gain an outline.

Variant: There is a longer variant where it's like the last logo, but Pinkfong is in his newest design and uses the same face from last logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the last logo, just the dropping and the stars for the regular.

Music/Sounds: A unidentifiable noise followed by the same "Pinkfong!" from the last logo. The long variant is the same as the last logo.

Availability: Current. First seen on Baby Shark's Big Show! and appears on their newest videos.