# Fave opening sequences that make creative use of the studio's logo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862 "2006-04-01T18:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/21 "2006-04-02T04:47:48Z")
The opening credits to Constantine were good, with everything crumbling away. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/22 "2006-04-02T06:21:20Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I liked the Universal logo morph into a picture of Earth in **Serenity**. In the _Doom_ movie, it’s Mars. In a car chase movie… I think it’s something like _Smokey and the Bandit_ but I can’t actually remember… cars appear on the Fox logo and chase around and over it. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/23 "2006-04-02T07:31:13Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Not a morph, but it was cute when, in one of the Road pictures, Hope and Crosby’s travels took them past a mountain that looked just like the Paramount logo. **The Road to Utopia**. It’s in right now! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/24 "2006-04-02T07:59:39Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > … Or how, the Raiders of the Lost Ark series made use of the mountain shown in the Paramount Pictures icon as a way of starting the actual movie. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Not a morph, but it was cute when, in one of the Road pictures, Hope and Crosby’s travels took them past a mountain that looked just like the Paramount logo. In the 1956 version of [The Ten Commandments](http://imdb.com/title/tt0049833/), Mount Sinai substitutes for the Paramount logo mountain. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/25 "2006-04-02T11:06:12Z")
In unused footage for the Marx Brothers movie _A Night at the Opera_–their first MGM movie–Groucho, Chico, and Harpo each appear in the spot normally occupied by Leo the Lion (with the motto ARS GRATIA ARTIS around it) and “roar.” (well, Harpo tries.) MGM decided not to use it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/26 "2006-04-02T12:59:43Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > In unused footage for the Marx Brothers movie _A Night at the Opera_–their first MGM movie–Groucho, Chico, and Harpo each appear in the spot normally occupied by Leo the Lion (with the motto ARS GRATIA ARTIS around it) and “roar.” (well, Harpo tries.) MGM decided not to use it. 😛 I believe it made it to the official trailer, though! It’s in the DVD edition. The ending sequence of Futurama has “20th Century FOX” changed into “30th Century Fox”. Very clever. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/27 "2006-04-02T13:19:05Z")
The movie _Strange Brew_ opens with Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as the McKenzie brothers, messing about with the MGM lion. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/28 "2006-04-02T17:55:39Z")
In _Xanadu_ they start with the old Universal logo with the biplane, then the biplane transforms into a jet plane, then a UFO which streakes off the screen. I always liked the Bugs Bunny leaning against the WB logo that they use for all their animated films. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862/29 "2006-04-02T18:04:09Z")
_Moulin Rouge_ begins with the conductor rising (ala _Gypsy_) and conducting the orchestra while the _20th Century Fox_ logo plays behind him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fave-opening-sequences-that-make-creative-use-of-the-studios-logo/350862.md?page=1)