{"id":13378,"date":"2009-01-07T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/07\/when-the-lion-roars.html"},"modified":"2009-01-07T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:01:42","slug":"when_the_lion_roars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/when_the_lion_roars.html","title":{"rendered":"When the Lion Roars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Columbia logo (1934)\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/columbia-logo-1934.jpg\" width=\"249\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Very cool article over at Neatorama about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2008\/12\/03\/the-story-behind-hollywood-studio-logos\/\" target=\"_blank\">the origins (and evolution) of major studio logos<\/a>, from the Dreamworks &#8220;kid fishing from the moon&#8221; to the MGM lion,&nbsp;to the Fox searchlights, to the Paramount mountain, to the WB shield, to the Columbia, um, Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The stories are interesting, but just as much is how the logos have changed (or not) over the decades. Some have been intentionally updated (the cool, mod, 70s-80s are clearly visible at Paramount and Warner), while others (MGM, Fox) have been amazingly stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool article over at Neatorama about the origins (and evolution) of major studio logos, from the Dreamworks &#8220;kid fishing from the moon&#8221; to the MGM lion,&nbsp;to the Fox searchlights,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11676,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/asking_for_whom_ma_bell_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":13378,"position":0},"title":"Asking for whom Ma Bell tolls","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jul-07 12:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very, very cool visual guide on how Ma Bell was broken up and has, since, largely reunited. 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