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Touchstone Pictures. Background: Touchstone Pictures (formerly "Touchstone Films") was established by The Walt Disney Company in February 1984 to produce and distribute more adult-oriented films. The company was merely a brand, and didn't operate as a separate company.
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March 1984. Splash (1984), the first film from Touchstone...
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Touchstone Pictures/Logo Variations. < Touchstone Pictures....
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Touchstone Pictures was formed on February 15, 1984, under...
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March 1984. Splash (1984), the first film from Touchstone Pictures, was the only film to use this logo.
Touchstone Pictures/Logo Variations. < Touchstone Pictures. D.O.A. (1988), Dick Tracy (1990), and Ransom (1996): The logo is in black & white. Ed Wood (1994): Exactly like the above variant, but a lighting strike occurs. Kundun (1997): The thunderflash is in a geranium lake color.
- Overview
- 1st Logo (1984-86)
- 2nd Logo (1986-1987 [US]; 1986-Early 1990s [UK])
- 3rd Logo (April 18, 1989-May 4, 2004; 2005; March 14, 2006; January 23, 2007)
- 4th Logo (January 20, 2004-January 24, 2017; September 21, 2021)
Background: Touchstone Home Entertainment (formerly "Touchstone Home Video") was the home entertainment arm of Touchstone Pictures established in 1985 to distribute all Touchstone releases on video. Although the brand was retired in 2017, some Touchstone titles were later licensed to Kino Lorber Studio Classics for Blu-ray release, some of which we...
Nicknames: "Still Thunderball"
Logo: On a white background, we see the Touchstone thunderball from the first movie logo. Below it is "TOUCHSTONE", with "HOME VIDEO" underneath. The logo fades out after fifteen seconds.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Nicknames: "Flashing Thunderball"
Logo: At the bottom of the screen is a circle beside the words "TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO", all made out in 80s computer effects. The text lights up section by section, like a flashlight, and when the "light" reaches the circle, the circle flashes and the gold stone appears on top.
Variants:
•On a few videos, this logo was seen with the words "COMING SOON FROM" in blue above the main logo. In addition, the music was slightly sped-up and louder.
•On Australian releases, the logo is positioned in the middle of the screen. For the closing variant, the logo is in the same position with the words "DISTRIBUTED BY" in white below it. After the music ended, it cuts out, so the Australian video distributor, Roadshow Home Video logo plays as normal.
•On 1986-87 Japanese releases under Bandai Video Network, the standard WDHV/BVN variant is shown, but Touchstone's logo replaces the second appearance of the WDHV logo. Strangely, this variant is used on Mr. Boogedy and Night Crossing (both Disney films) rather than Disney's.
Nicknames: "The Snake", "Thunderball III", "Touchstone Thunderball III", "Thunderball Snake"
Logo: Same as the movie logo, only "HOME VIDEO" replaces "PICTURES".
Variants:
•The "HOME VIDEO" version has two different types of fadeouts: video-style on VHS, film-style on Laserdisc and DVD.
•The positioning of the logo varies.
•Starting in 2002, a new variant was made to coincide with the introduction of the DVD format. The picture quality was improved over the earlier variant, and the words "HOME VIDEO" were replaced with "HOME ENTERTAINMENT". Oddly, a small majority of DVDs feature this variant as most use the earlier Home Video version, though it appeared on VHS towards the end of 2003, as well as on a 2002 reissue of Nothing to Lose.
Nicknames: "Thunderball IV", "CGI Golden-Light Thunderball", "Touchstone Thunderball IV", "CGI Touchstone Thunderball"
Logo: Same as the 2002 movie logo, only "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PICTURES".
Variant: In 2011, the logo changed to just a still variant with the thunderball shining. This is only seen as a screensaver on Blu-rays from 2011-17, similar to the Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment screensaver variant.
FX/SFX:
•2004-17 (DVD: 2004-17; Blu-rays: 2006-11; VHS: 2004-05): Same as the current movie logo.
•2011-17 (Blu-rays): Just the thunderball shining.
Touchstone Pictures was formed on February 15, 1984, under the name Touchstone Films, as a label for its more "mature" movies, the logo was designed by Landor Associates. In 1986, Touchstone Films was renamed as Touchstone Pictures, following the release of Ruthless People, Disney retired the...
The first incarnation of Touchstone Television was the television arm of Touchstone Pictures formed in 1985 under the Walt Disney Company to produce more adult-oriented shows and TV movies. In February 2007, Touchstone Television was renamed to "ABC Television Studio", which was renamed again to...
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Background: Touchstone Pictures (formerly "Touchstone Films") was established by The Walt Disney Company in 1983 to produce and distribute more adult-oriented films. The company is merely a brand, and doesn't operate as a separate company.
