How were the cult cynologotypes created
A statue of a Worker and a Collective Farmer ... against the background of the Kremlin. A little boy fishing directly from the crescent moon. A woman with a torch surrounded by clouds. The Bronze Horseman. They appear in the first frames of the next film, and the viewer already knows exactly which film studio he is going to watch. How were the world-famous logos of film companies created? Each of them has its own story.
Let's start with the Mosfilm logo, which is known to everyone in our country. Moreover, he is considered an unspoken symbol of the entire Soviet cinema. In the center of the logo is the famous sculpture of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective farmer", one of the main attractions of the capital. This sculpture is located at VDNH. The logo of the Mosfilm studio with the Mukhinsky sculpture and the Kremlin on the right hand of the Worker first appeared in 1947 in Grigory Alexandrov's film “Spring".
The Lady in the clouds is a symbol of the Columbia Pictures film studio. This studio was founded in 1919 by brothers Harry and Jack Cohn, as well as their business partner Joe Brandt. The studio's logo was created five years later. The model for him was the Hollywood actress Claudia Dell. In 1992, the logo was “updated” and this time the model was Jenny Joseph, a graphic designer. But what does the symbol itself mean? Colombia is a female image, the personification of the United States of America after the American Revolution.
The roaring lion is the logo of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film company. The author of the logo is Howard Dietz, PR manager of the company. In 1924, he designed the symbol using an element from the logo of the Columbia State University athletic team, where he once studied. This team was called the Lions. As many as five lions were shot for the logo in different periods: Slats, Jackie, Tanner, Nameless and... Leo! By the way, making lions roar was the most difficult thing: they were hereditary circus animals that treated people very peaceably.
Paramount Pictures Corporation has a very romantic logo: stars on the background of a majestic mountain. The artist V. Hodkinson depicted Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah). It was in those parts that his childhood passed. The first logo had 24 stars - that's how the 24 screen stars who have contracts with this studio were “encrypted”.
The Walt Disney Pictures logo... no, not Mickey Mouse, but Sleeping Beauty's Castle. He, in turn, is inspired by the Neuschwanstein castle of King Ludwig II, which is located in Bavaria. It is known that the great Disney himself was amazed by the beauty of this palace and considered it the real embodiment of a fairyland. But on the modern screensaver of the company there is already another Cinderella palace, which also has a real prototype. This is the Chateau Dusset in France.
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Let's start with the Mosfilm logo, which is known to everyone in our country. Moreover, he is considered an unspoken symbol of the entire Soviet cinema. In the center of the logo is the famous sculpture of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective farmer", one of the main attractions of the capital. This sculpture is located at VDNH. The logo of the Mosfilm studio with the Mukhinsky sculpture and the Kremlin on the right hand of the Worker first appeared in 1947 in Grigory Alexandrov's film “Spring".
The Lady in the clouds is a symbol of the Columbia Pictures film studio. This studio was founded in 1919 by brothers Harry and Jack Cohn, as well as their business partner Joe Brandt. The studio's logo was created five years later. The model for him was the Hollywood actress Claudia Dell. In 1992, the logo was “updated” and this time the model was Jenny Joseph, a graphic designer. But what does the symbol itself mean? Colombia is a female image, the personification of the United States of America after the American Revolution.
The roaring lion is the logo of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film company. The author of the logo is Howard Dietz, PR manager of the company. In 1924, he designed the symbol using an element from the logo of the Columbia State University athletic team, where he once studied. This team was called the Lions. As many as five lions were shot for the logo in different periods: Slats, Jackie, Tanner, Nameless and... Leo! By the way, making lions roar was the most difficult thing: they were hereditary circus animals that treated people very peaceably.
Paramount Pictures Corporation has a very romantic logo: stars on the background of a majestic mountain. The artist V. Hodkinson depicted Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah). It was in those parts that his childhood passed. The first logo had 24 stars - that's how the 24 screen stars who have contracts with this studio were “encrypted”.
The Walt Disney Pictures logo... no, not Mickey Mouse, but Sleeping Beauty's Castle. He, in turn, is inspired by the Neuschwanstein castle of King Ludwig II, which is located in Bavaria. It is known that the great Disney himself was amazed by the beauty of this palace and considered it the real embodiment of a fairyland. But on the modern screensaver of the company there is already another Cinderella palace, which also has a real prototype. This is the Chateau Dusset in France.
