Universal Movie Logo 1930's

[SuperAwesomeness64]

That logo was also reused in the beginning of Balto 3.

[lyriz465]

When Kubrick first proposed the PanAm people about passenger flights from the earth to the moon (in 2001) how much do you want to bet that somebody immediately thought of this?

[lyriz465]

This was at a time when we very, very naive about outer space. 

[Greg98233]

Along with being an aviation pioneer, Howard Hughes bought Universal in the early 30's. Among his early starlets (and sex playmates) was Jean Harlow in "Wings." The opening logo comemerates Howard's solo flight around the world, also in the '30's. The man did it all!!

[jlafan4]

@Greg98233 actually, jean harlow was in hughes' "hell's angels" - clara bow was the gal pal in "wings" ;)

[asw9243]

SOOOOOOOOOO classic! (1915- 1940s)

[JackRussellTerrier2]

Back then people probably thought that a large area of outer space near the Earth actually looked like that. After all, humans wouldn't really leave the Earth's atmosphere until the 1950s.

[SpyengoEen]

Beautiful!

[blooberflat22]

hell yeah, bout to get my howard hughes on

[danmanlott]

Newest news from Prussia, a man docked his aeroplane to a zeppelin in mid fight, now for this video of it and the guy in a faint voice saying what he did.

[jie3328]

Universal redid this logo in 1990 for some of it's movies as an Aniversary.

[DAMRCRAP74]

too scary but cool

[BaltoFan121]

they showed this in Balto III: Wings of Change

[whizbang47]

Northrop Alpha's were pretty fast and might've cruised at 150 m.p.h. With the earth spinning the other way at 1100 it would only take 20 hours to cruise around. So they'd just speed up the film about 250 times. Now how they got those clouds to float in outer space..., well, that's one on me. Someone else will have to tell you how that was done.

[TurtleShroom]

The should have kept the airplane in the modern one.... perhaps have it drive from the bottem-left diagnoly just as the dramatic logo finishes spinning around the planet and the sweet music concludes.

[pulangtribo]

woah, an airplane above the atmosphere

[pingeepong]

yeah and it looks like the same big as australia :D

[2Modern4Angel2]

@pulangtribo you think that's amazing, you should check out RKO studios logo screens. A giant chicken standing on top of the world. They also had a huge radio antenna buzzing with morse code sounds; imagine the engineering it took to get a tower like that up not to mention the chicken, what would it eat? people? =O

[angelpichu1]

@pulangtribo it's a futuristic space ship.

[ferraripanama]

cool

[ooooxdbxoooo]

WOW!I was not thinking it is soooooo old i love universal!!!

[bitchesonmytip]

Hey i saw Aussie yay aussie :)

[EpicTom]

clouds behind the earth?

[metrogoldwyn]

I suppose you're right -never gave it much thought. Jesus, that plane must have been

humongous to circle the globe that fast!

[bluecongo]

Whoa, a Universal Logo from the 1930s? Intersting.

[terrorz0512]

this one scared the crap outta me im scared of all the universal logos its wierd

[ECG3485]

This logo was also at the beginning of "The Sting" (1973) and "Land of the Dead" (2005), and a special version was done for "Xanadu" (1980).

[TerryT1976]

Not to mention "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

[metrogoldwyn]

Technically, I believe the logo from "The Sting' was ,in fact. a sepia variant of the

preceding '30s /'40s Universal globe surrounded by stars

with a Scott Joplin/Marvin Hamlisch fanfare. It's also available here on You Tube

[mellowNdark]

Puts CGI to shame!!! lol

[meesterfonnyboy]

Judging by that faint hint of the National Recovery Administration's logo at the very beginning, I'd place this between 1933 and 1935.

[looneywoman]

Hmmm...wonder if it's from, say, "Bride of Frankenstein"?

[meesterfonnyboy]

My guess would be "The Black Cat". I don't recall if "Bride" had one, "The Mummy" didn't because the NRA was not in existance then, and "The Invisible Man" placed an NRA "We Do Our Part" banner after the logo.

[iseven016]

nope, looneywoman was right, it's "bride of frankenstein"!

[astaynax]

this is my favorite Universal logo

[GAndreiev]

The final shot of Universal's "Werewolf of London" shows a similiar plane soaring thru the sky, then they dissolve to this plane. As a young horror movie viewer I thought the film ended with oddball space travel

[RobinMetrocolor]

This logo is very underrated.

[mandycachiadoea]

I know filburt50 try my own.

[daleroes]

search: 'The Great Waldo Pepper' on youtube to see how Universal revived the old logo for this 1978 film

on barnstormers -- it's a good movie too

[daleroes]

but wait, on closer inspection I see clouds and atmosphere BEHIND THE GLOBE! -- now I don't know

-- but that's a ufo

[daleroes]

mono wing actually, though wings have no use in space -- but that big, and moving faster than earth's rotation: UFO (and I hope the pilot has his own oxygen source in case he's from earth)

[daleroes]

the ufo is BIG and it is moving FAST

[filburt50]

It's a biplane, not an UFO.

[filburt50]

elmiresoccermomj is stupid.

[freefromfolsom]

wooooooaaaaaahhhh that is OLD man!

[filburt50]

I need to make my own version of this logo. But I can't find the biplane model.

Can anybody give me the download link to the biplane anim8or file?

[InsomniacGirl]

Always loved this logo, thanks for posting

[filburt50]

It also appeared on Balto III Wings of Change after the Universal logo at the beginning of the film.

[EmpressDR]

I'd like to see the version used for WC Fields movies. Late 1930s-40s. My Little Chickadee, et al

[TreyBenjamin]

This was from The Sting II

[searchingforthree]

Yeah, That also appeared in the Pirate of Penzance

with that opening.

[vto66]

I remember this logo from the beginning of the "Sgt. Pepper" movie from 1978.

[dsneybuf]

This also appeared on a movie from the 80s or late 70s about the Pirates of Pennzance.