This was composed and recorded by Eric Siday. He was one of the pioneering users of the Moog synthesizer. He did a bunch of station idents, commercials, including the old Maxwell House commercial with the percolator
@Mrfoodlvr614 Absolutely agree. It is a touchstone, visual memory for any self-respecting boomer who remembers The Monkees, Bewitched, Jeannie, Rooftop, Second Hundred Years, Ugliest Girl, Mr. Deeds, Gidget, Flying Nun and a lot of other irresistible TV candy. I will have no reissue Monkees vinyl that isn't on the original Colgems with Columbia Pictures logo and Screen Gems spiral to the respective left and right of the spindle hole.
So this was the logo Sony used to name their specialty division after. When I saw this logo on YouTube years after seeing it on trailers and movies I think the 1999 version is the best. The red one is scary.
Monkees Man, it was the Monkees!!! The logo came on after the Monkees TV show. We've all be pavlovian-ly programmed to respond to it, all these decades later, lol!!!
If you're a latter boomer like me ('63-4) you'll agree!!!
C'mon, it's creepier than f**k. Don't know why. When I was five, the music for this was the last thing I'd heard coming out of my nightmares. Stupid...yeah. But we didn't have Mortal Combat, Halo or other modern crap to rattle our fragile little cages.
Do become beware of "dancing sticks" id, especially if it's the voiced over one while you're watching it in a dark room...alone. Made me swear off "The Flintstones" for years.
Ha, THANK YOU all you people who are saying this logo was scary. I thought for sure it was just me. When I used to watch The Monkees as a child, this thing would FREAK ME THE HELL OUT. A nice closing song about love and peace . . . and then THIS THING. I used to literally run away from the television as the last notes of the theme faded away, because I knew THIS was coming.
Look deep into the center. I swear, I got scared and tears came to my eyes. It's an eye, and it's watching you. Oh God, I must be tired as hell, but that's what happened.
The static background,the odd punctuating music,the fluid movement of the logo assembling,the font used for the name,the fact that you absorb all this in mere seconds...
I honestly don't know if it's any one of those things,or all of them in combination,but this DID freak me out as a kid,and it STILL find it unsettling.
What does scare me is low quality stuff like this. I'm not saying this for laughs, there's something strange about some older quality stuff, especially old shows like Tales from the Darkside. Intense dark lighting coupled with a sort of realism, yet the grainy quality made it seem like a dream, a nightmare (since it was a horror show).
Yep, I too thought Eric Siday played a Musitron on this (as was used in Del Shannon's "Runaway"); but apparently he used a Moog modulator synthesizer.
Many Gen Xers who watched prime time shows before they went to their early bedtimes were spellbound by a barrage of dancing sticks, S From Hell, V of Doom etc.... and I suppose why we found it disturbing was because that was the last image our minds had on going to bed. It represents a closing, a finality...
And what seems like modern closing music was actually a signal perceived by kids as "fun's over, time for bed". Also the S seems to surround and capture the dot.
@aramanth Nice analysis. And yes, that logo did have a finality to it. Our parents told us we could stay up until the end of the show and here it was....
@Ozymandias2x Get up in the middle of the night, around 3 or so. Fire up your brower and play this repeatedly with the sound WAY up. Good luck getting back to sleep after that. Trust us. It'll happen to you, too. :-S
i sit here forcing my dad to listen to this he's so freaked out and he says everyone was scared of this and how it's the s from hell hahaha so much fun to make him listen to this
Am I the only one who doesn't find this scary? I actually think the music is quite relaxing-sounding.
The company logos that I find scary are the Paramount "Closet Killer", the BND one, and any of the old Viacom logos. Oh, and also the Walt Disney Home Video "Neon Mickey" logo from the 70's.
my dad said this creeped him out so at the end of a sabrina the teenage witch that was on this logo came up and i told my dad to come here and as soon as he saw what it was he ran out of the room
That logo and music used to SCARE ME at the end of the Monkees--more than any monster movie, I guess because I didn't expect it! I would even have NIGHTMARES that that logo and music were coming to get me at night!!!
@ausme10 LOL...same here. it was just a 'jingle' that i heard at the end of television shows i grew up with in the late 60s / early 70s. it just seemed 'official' and i liked it.
Haha...at first I didn't think it was scary, because I'd always seen it in "small screen", like this one. But then I saw it on TV a few days ago, full-sized, and it scared the living life out of me! Especially the letters.
@nosmoderni You're not weird, in fact, you're in quite a big club too. It broke my heart when I bought the season three Bewitched discs and the Screen Gems logo was not restored to the end credits, nor did they bother finding the original, cheesy 'next in color' bumper that used to precede the show. I remember Flintstone and Huckleberry Hound end credits that had the spiral. And, of course, any Monkees fan remembers it from both the show and on Colgems record labels from that time.
@title29 It just was. I was a nervous child and creepy noises used to scare me. To me that dot and that creepy loud booo boooo bu bu bu bu bllllll blllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Used to scare me, along with reruns of the Flintstones ending with the dancing sticks and that LOUD music that followed it.
@w7y7a7t7t Not sure what they find scary. Maybe it's like an eye. I found that one logo after the original Twilight Zone series, with some dude's hand pounding a logo into the screen like a chisel, was weird. I can't remember what the name of that logo was.
@w7y7a7t7t What people mean by scary is not as in horror movie scary, but disturbing scary. Imagine after watching your favorite cartoon it's midnight. Then this pops up. It's not as sscary as let's say a monster but it just disturbs you and makes you feel rather uncomfortable and you feel like you're being watched..
Eerie rather than scary probably better describes this logo & audio. I grew up watching reruns of I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched and Partridge Family during the 1970s and early 80s and always found the logo & audio absorbing. Someone else wrote, it also provided some finality (or closure) to a program. Interesting that decades later it's still with us. Reminds us how timeless those Screen Gems programs are. I think the Universal MCA-TV logo from the 60s & early 70s was also memorable.
They probably dont make anymore stuff, but I did see that on a channel (I forgot it) and that was at the end of a show. The channel was for some old shows, like a retirement home, and then, I saw this. It gave me an panic attack for a few minutes, because I thought that they didnt show that anymore, and it came out of nowhere. But anyway, they should be called Scream Gems.
It was one of the first Moogs manufactured. Despite Bob Moog's mass producing them, you would still have to take out a second mortgage to have gotten one in 1965. Eric Siday is the composer.
@SlimeTron5000 Thank you!!!!! It's only a ident! It's not like it's gonna hurt you or something. As for that synthesizer music in this logo, I actually like it!
I remember this being shown just after "The Monkees" ended. It brings back fond memories of my childhood. The tune itself was always quite soothing to me. I can't believe that people were actually afraid of it!
I know kids can find ways to be scared of things we may find odd as grown ups, but I have fond memories of this logo from age 6 or 7. I can't remember, but I think it was after The Flintstones too. Good memories.
I totally agree with raposofan. As children growing up in the mid 70's we would know when it was time for bed after your favorite television show ended and this logo would appear. The acoustics were soothing to my senses but back then you didn't think too much about it...you just experienced it. Very 70's feeling. Pre internet, pre cell phones. I love current technology but sure do miss those simple days.
I've noticed many commenting on the fanfare music for it. This SG television logo "bump" was done during the '60's at a time when electronic music was becoming more mainstream. The Bach musical album "Switched On Bach" was popular and the Beatles had used the Moog Synthesiser on the Abbey Road album as well. You'll notice the similarity with the PBS precursor "NET" bump with similar electronic music. There was also a move graphically to simple logos a la the CBS eye.
You must not have seen it when you were 4 years old right before you had to go to bed, and THEN had to listen to your parents watch "The Twilight Zone" as you slipped into a nightmare-filled sleep.
The animation actually looks pretty cool once you realize the front rectangle isn't moving diagonally upwards and shrinking, but moving away from you.
I read an interesting blog the other day about the Screen Gems logo. The blogger suggested that TV companies in the past created eerie logos to encourage kids to not watch too much TV.
Didn't work in my case. I would sit there transfixed and frozen like a baby bird before a King Cobra. Ah memories....
Screen gems is Sony pictures right
california647 2 days ago
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Ah, the end of the Partridge Family...(in syndication). And then it was time to do homework. Thanks WNEW Ch. 5 in NYC.
HardyGirl66 6 days ago
aaaah The good old days
delorme9 1 week ago
MEOWwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Screen Gems !
iTribeStudio 1 week ago
This was composed and recorded by Eric Siday. He was one of the pioneering users of the Moog synthesizer. He did a bunch of station idents, commercials, including the old Maxwell House commercial with the percolator
GKacedrummerman 2 weeks ago
Why do people think its scary? It's beautiful!
Mrfoodlvr614 3 weeks ago 4
@Mrfoodlvr614 Absolutely agree. It is a touchstone, visual memory for any self-respecting boomer who remembers The Monkees, Bewitched, Jeannie, Rooftop, Second Hundred Years, Ugliest Girl, Mr. Deeds, Gidget, Flying Nun and a lot of other irresistible TV candy. I will have no reissue Monkees vinyl that isn't on the original Colgems with Columbia Pictures logo and Screen Gems spiral to the respective left and right of the spindle hole.
dvlaries 3 days ago
@dvlaries R.I.P. Davy Jones
Mrfoodlvr614 3 days ago
That's the stuff that nightmares are made of
Adam19822000 3 weeks ago
So this was the logo Sony used to name their specialty division after. When I saw this logo on YouTube years after seeing it on trailers and movies I think the 1999 version is the best. The red one is scary.
kascnef 1 month ago
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I wonder what the music would sound like if done Skrillex style
mathewbailey08 1 month ago
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I wonder what the music would sound like if done Skrillex style
mathewbailey08 1 month ago
I wonder what the music would sound like if done Skrillex style
mathewbailey08 1 month ago
Such a familiar logo and sound from childhood - all those Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Although the Screen Gems logo always made me think of loo rolls...
pullformore 1 month ago
Iluminati
CrazyLamonata 1 month ago
Monkees Man, it was the Monkees!!! The logo came on after the Monkees TV show. We've all be pavlovian-ly programmed to respond to it, all these decades later, lol!!!
If you're a latter boomer like me ('63-4) you'll agree!!!
bertskoi 2 months ago
Wha Tha Fah?
NermalKartie 3 months ago
C'mon, it's creepier than f**k. Don't know why. When I was five, the music for this was the last thing I'd heard coming out of my nightmares. Stupid...yeah. But we didn't have Mortal Combat, Halo or other modern crap to rattle our fragile little cages.
Do become beware of "dancing sticks" id, especially if it's the voiced over one while you're watching it in a dark room...alone. Made me swear off "The Flintstones" for years.
conductorinblack 3 months ago 2
I don't see how this can be scary. Rennaience (or however it is said) productions? THAT'S scary.
rtuckerivey 3 months ago
Ha, THANK YOU all you people who are saying this logo was scary. I thought for sure it was just me. When I used to watch The Monkees as a child, this thing would FREAK ME THE HELL OUT. A nice closing song about love and peace . . . and then THIS THING. I used to literally run away from the television as the last notes of the theme faded away, because I knew THIS was coming.
Sailormac2 3 months ago
I find this logo to be rather calming.
MattTheSaiyan 4 months ago
why do people think it is scary? its kinda cute
theshugchannel 4 months ago
OH LOOK ITS TOILET PAPER
IanEduardoMeneses 4 months ago
people find this scary, go look up the BND logo, far scarier than this xD
CerberusT93 4 months ago
Look deep into the center. I swear, I got scared and tears came to my eyes. It's an eye, and it's watching you. Oh God, I must be tired as hell, but that's what happened.
Christhefireshark 4 months ago
Wouldn't this be in black and white (as was Season 1 of "I Dream of Jeannie")?
vinylrecord68 5 months ago
@w7y7a7t7t People find dis logo scaaaary cuz The Music COmbined With Parrelograms Joining with the red dot in the middle
logicbam 5 months ago
This scares the fuck out of me.
sldl04 5 months ago
Noooo...Simitar entertainment's logo is worse. Or bnd...
TheNumber1trekkie 5 months ago
It looks like a sixties educational film is about to start.
WorldChallenge 6 months ago 13
@WorldChallenge Pretty much.
Despatche 5 months ago
Creepy, yes, but I don't really see the scare factor.
MrPresidentFox 6 months ago
@MrPresidentFox
I do.
sldl04 5 months ago
I remember this from when I was about 3 or 4. Didn't find it scary at all. I thought it looked like a roll of toilet paper.
KLVAN100 6 months ago
@KLVAN100 It´s funny thing that it really looks like toilet paper when you watch that logo very closely. :)
Nostalgikko 6 months ago
The static background,the odd punctuating music,the fluid movement of the logo assembling,the font used for the name,the fact that you absorb all this in mere seconds...
I honestly don't know if it's any one of those things,or all of them in combination,but this DID freak me out as a kid,and it STILL find it unsettling.
snarkus63 6 months ago
I agree it's a LITTLE creepy/disturbingly scary. Apussy by nature could be really scared of it.
DarklordofDOOM57 6 months ago
IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US!
ElementalChaosLP 6 months ago
They call this scary? They must also think Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a horror movie.
gentjt38 7 months ago
What does scare me is low quality stuff like this. I'm not saying this for laughs, there's something strange about some older quality stuff, especially old shows like Tales from the Darkside. Intense dark lighting coupled with a sort of realism, yet the grainy quality made it seem like a dream, a nightmare (since it was a horror show).
soridosuneku 7 months ago
I've just watched this late at night in complete darkness, and I wasn't scared. Suck on that you pussies.
97Lordflash 7 months ago
@97Lordflash no need to be abusive.......
citizenterryk 2 months ago
PS2's Red Screen Of Death is creepier. Duh.
jojogape 7 months ago
Yep, I too thought Eric Siday played a Musitron on this (as was used in Del Shannon's "Runaway"); but apparently he used a Moog modulator synthesizer.
lennonzappa71 7 months ago
scary music
MrChihuahua34 7 months ago
Whoever thought this was scary must have been drinking.
im264shirt 7 months ago
how is this scary?
LeopardstreamAtLarge 7 months ago
I would kill to have a T-shirt with this logo on it.
gdoumerc1984 8 months ago
i like the little tune, it's catchy!
wiiblewobble 8 months ago
Scary what? That never scared me one bit.
lordbemylight 8 months ago
It's the number 69 joined together, and the dot is a vagina.
Tundraboy05 9 months ago
gives me the creeps. flash backs to watching bewitched as a kid in the 70's.
snackmachines 9 months ago
this logo kinda reminds me of being in the new mexico desert!
Dungbeetleproduction 9 months ago
Makes a nice ringtone.
enigma413 9 months ago
This logo is similar to the italian publishing house of books "SEI" (Società editoriale italiana)
Martino881980 9 months ago
It just looks like a giant, mashed-together 69. Subliminal much??
Shadowsilverlane 9 months ago
It's like an eye looking at you.
dnewhope777 9 months ago
Many Gen Xers who watched prime time shows before they went to their early bedtimes were spellbound by a barrage of dancing sticks, S From Hell, V of Doom etc.... and I suppose why we found it disturbing was because that was the last image our minds had on going to bed. It represents a closing, a finality...
And what seems like modern closing music was actually a signal perceived by kids as "fun's over, time for bed". Also the S seems to surround and capture the dot.
aramanth 9 months ago 17
@aramanth Nice analysis. And yes, that logo did have a finality to it. Our parents told us we could stay up until the end of the show and here it was....
kelime 8 months ago
@aramanth nope.avi
HeiHolaHello 3 months ago
Okay, seriously, how the hell is this supposed to be scary?
Ozymandias2x 10 months ago
@Ozymandias2x Get up in the middle of the night, around 3 or so. Fire up your brower and play this repeatedly with the sound WAY up. Good luck getting back to sleep after that. Trust us. It'll happen to you, too. :-S
RobDog65 9 months ago 4
@RobDog65 Don't be ridiculous. This logo (like Viacom's "V of Doom") is not even scary.
TheKimberBenton 1 month ago
Tempo maybe?
Nazrat84 10 months ago
Phew, really scary is that the old logo! :O
New logos are heavenly... My top favorites! ♥
Tratlantis 11 months ago
Vaguely remember this logo.
Capt777harris 11 months ago
This was always a little creepy to me...
As the two parallelograms curve and surround the dot you get a feeling of being trapped! The odd fanfare adds to this unsettling feeling.
aramanth 11 months ago
I saw this logo recently after watching "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun."
I don't find it that scary; however, the music is rather shrilly. Not too easy on the ears, IMO.
hoodmistress 11 months ago
The THX logo kicked this logo's ass in scariness factor.
Papercleps 1 year ago 3
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I have this as my ringtone!! Lol
Dynapro100 1 year ago
i sit here forcing my dad to listen to this he's so freaked out and he says everyone was scared of this and how it's the s from hell hahaha so much fun to make him listen to this
frodis124 1 year ago
Am I the only one who doesn't find this scary? I actually think the music is quite relaxing-sounding.
The company logos that I find scary are the Paramount "Closet Killer", the BND one, and any of the old Viacom logos. Oh, and also the Walt Disney Home Video "Neon Mickey" logo from the 70's.
TheMetalGearChick1 1 year ago
@TheMetalGearChick1 I want some bloopers from this logo like the two part of s falls down and the little ball crashes the text
MrTweety2707 10 months ago
@MrTweety2707
LOL.
TheMetalGearChick1 10 months ago
@TheMetalGearChick1 XD or the text zooms in very and the S with the little ball falls down while the BND music plays reverse
MrTweety2707 10 months ago
Brilliant quality!
1happycats 1 year ago
This doesn't scare me at all.
enigma413 1 year ago
I find this logo interesting rather than scary per se, but that's just me.
JeterSwisherFan88 1 year ago
my dad said this creeped him out so at the end of a sabrina the teenage witch that was on this logo came up and i told my dad to come here and as soon as he saw what it was he ran out of the room
frodis124 1 year ago
That logo and music used to SCARE ME at the end of the Monkees--more than any monster movie, I guess because I didn't expect it! I would even have NIGHTMARES that that logo and music were coming to get me at night!!!
notfragile33 1 year ago
That Viacom pinball thing creeps me out.
chairmanofthebored1 1 year ago
This is an epic scare for anyone, but I think it's fantastic.
cybertronization 1 year ago
A frightening logo...
parkman35 1 year ago
I was very surprised to find out that this logo totally creeped out some kids. Personally, for me, it reminded me of simpler times.
ausme10 1 year ago
@ausme10 LOL...same here. it was just a 'jingle' that i heard at the end of television shows i grew up with in the late 60s / early 70s. it just seemed 'official' and i liked it.
i don't get what's so scary about it.
neoconsnightmare3 1 year ago
Haha...at first I didn't think it was scary, because I'd always seen it in "small screen", like this one. But then I saw it on TV a few days ago, full-sized, and it scared the living life out of me! Especially the letters.
DisneyBlackJet 1 year ago
Best quality I've ever seen for this logo, hands down! Nice upload!
DJCandyManMike 1 year ago
That times me back . . . waaaaay back. The music if very Atari.
CaptChaos1981 1 year ago
Me neither, I like it. Now that Viacom one, that's creepy, the older one, pinball they call it I think.
chairmanofthebored1 1 year ago
I actually looked forward to the theme and logo at the end of Bewitched and IDOJ. Was I a weird kid??
nosmoderni 1 year ago
@nosmoderni Well, if you are, then so am I! I loved seeing it, at the end of The Monkees!
kyokogodai 1 year ago
@nosmoderni You're not weird, in fact, you're in quite a big club too. It broke my heart when I bought the season three Bewitched discs and the Screen Gems logo was not restored to the end credits, nor did they bother finding the original, cheesy 'next in color' bumper that used to precede the show. I remember Flintstone and Huckleberry Hound end credits that had the spiral. And, of course, any Monkees fan remembers it from both the show and on Colgems record labels from that time.
dvlaries 1 year ago
@nosmoderni Nope, not at all. :)
TheKimberBenton 1 month ago
It kind of reminds me of the Portland Trail Blazers logo..I always remember this one from Bewitched which was on ABC back in the day...
parkman35 1 year ago
Never liked this thing as a kid.
BrownLabs 1 year ago 2
I like the music. <3
Wanna see something scary? Go watch the 80's UA logo....at night.
theGMANtheBOSS 1 year ago
The scariest thing I find about this logo is that the S looks like a 69.
UberMan5000 1 year ago
WOW! Sony actually allowed this logo to appear on the Season 1 DVD?
livinlarge18 1 year ago
This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
Adam19822000 1 year ago
To me, it's like it sounds like the end of the world is coming. Creepy.
smeldogs 1 year ago
i am not scared of the s from hell
razgar02 1 year ago
how is this scary?
title29 1 year ago 2
@title29 It just was. I was a nervous child and creepy noises used to scare me. To me that dot and that creepy loud booo boooo bu bu bu bu bllllll blllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Used to scare me, along with reruns of the Flintstones ending with the dancing sticks and that LOUD music that followed it.
Sheri451 1 year ago
This Logo Is Evil!
johnnieRad 1 year ago
how the hell do people find this scary?
w7y7a7t7t 1 year ago 43
the only one that we should fear is the V of Doom or VIACOM
TheAppleMan100 1 year ago
@w7y7a7t7t Not sure what they find scary. Maybe it's like an eye. I found that one logo after the original Twilight Zone series, with some dude's hand pounding a logo into the screen like a chisel, was weird. I can't remember what the name of that logo was.
RacerXGTO 9 months ago
@w7y7a7t7t What people mean by scary is not as in horror movie scary, but disturbing scary. Imagine after watching your favorite cartoon it's midnight. Then this pops up. It's not as sscary as let's say a monster but it just disturbs you and makes you feel rather uncomfortable and you feel like you're being watched..
EvilFlamethrower 6 months ago
@w7y7a7t7t
Eerie rather than scary probably better describes this logo & audio. I grew up watching reruns of I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched and Partridge Family during the 1970s and early 80s and always found the logo & audio absorbing. Someone else wrote, it also provided some finality (or closure) to a program. Interesting that decades later it's still with us. Reminds us how timeless those Screen Gems programs are. I think the Universal MCA-TV logo from the 60s & early 70s was also memorable.
ssadelaidian 6 months ago
r they still in bisnuess
7transformer 1 year ago
Yes. They're owned by Sony these days and I believe they have a studio in North Carolina.
thespotrocks 1 year ago
They probably dont make anymore stuff, but I did see that on a channel (I forgot it) and that was at the end of a show. The channel was for some old shows, like a retirement home, and then, I saw this. It gave me an panic attack for a few minutes, because I thought that they didnt show that anymore, and it came out of nowhere. But anyway, they should be called Scream Gems.
supermaletperson 1 year ago 3
@supermaletperson i think it would be "Bewitched" on either WGN America, TBS or TV Land
qu4n7um5p33d 1 year ago
IT'S ONLY AN IDENT!
By the way, you are hearing expensive vintage synthesizers.
SlimeTron5000 2 years ago 4
It was one of the first Moogs manufactured. Despite Bob Moog's mass producing them, you would still have to take out a second mortgage to have gotten one in 1965. Eric Siday is the composer.
thespotrocks 1 year ago
@SlimeTron5000 Thank you!!!!! It's only a ident! It's not like it's gonna hurt you or something. As for that synthesizer music in this logo, I actually like it!
TheKimberBenton 1 month ago
I like it in C Major
PakezSystematicWrath 2 years ago
I always thought this one was classy, not scary.
ksol1460 2 years ago
I always thought it soothing and pleasant-sounding, I wish Eric Siday had done a few "switched on" records back then.
thespotrocks 1 year ago
Since this version doesn't take up the entire screen, it's a lot less frightening than the "A" versions which did.
AllRequired 2 years ago
S FROM HELL
invaderzimfanbase 2 years ago
What I want to know is how 35 years after seeing this thing, I remembered the exact tune of the jingle?
Exactly how much TV did we all *watch* back then?? :{
raposofan 2 years ago
I'm sorry,but I don't find logos scary anymore.
anakinfan8 2 years ago
I agree with that
I even find the BИD logo funny
cruisn4evur 2 years ago
Amazing how something inocuous can bring back so many vivid memories of childhood. Very cool.
EricGoBlue 2 years ago 3
I love this logo! Actually calms me.
MattTheSaiyan 2 years ago
It's kind of like being abducted and mind probed by aliens.
christopherraven 2 years ago 20
because of this "S FROM HELL"
PokemonRulz800 2 years ago
how the FUCK is this considered scary??
xcited4vids 2 years ago 3
@xcited4vids THANK YOU!!
tecmo1 2 years ago
People think this is scary? O_o I say the "V Of Doom" is worse.
Breezetail10255 2 years ago
I remember this being shown just after "The Monkees" ended. It brings back fond memories of my childhood. The tune itself was always quite soothing to me. I can't believe that people were actually afraid of it!
veracastle9 2 years ago 3
When I saw the Monkees there was no logo even on NBC.
britfrenir 2 years ago
I know kids can find ways to be scared of things we may find odd as grown ups, but I have fond memories of this logo from age 6 or 7. I can't remember, but I think it was after The Flintstones too. Good memories.
nardpuncher 2 years ago
OH MY GOD!!!!! ITS THE "S" FROM HELL!!!!!!! Just kidding. People were seriously scared of this? There are scarier logos out there.
VMLthegreat 2 years ago
I totally agree with raposofan. As children growing up in the mid 70's we would know when it was time for bed after your favorite television show ended and this logo would appear. The acoustics were soothing to my senses but back then you didn't think too much about it...you just experienced it. Very 70's feeling. Pre internet, pre cell phones. I love current technology but sure do miss those simple days.
sanger2005 2 years ago 3
I remember the logo from my childhood. I always loved it!
calchick82 2 years ago
It's odd people think this is scary. It reminds me of childhood and makes me feel soothed, "the world is safe, Mommy is nearby, and all is well".
raposofan 2 years ago
Nice observation raposofan. This does bring back all that security feeling.
OldMrMemories 2 years ago
not for me...even though i was born in the 90s, this shit still freaks me out!
DrPhilMusic 2 years ago
It freaks you out because you grew up in a black and white time when blandness is considered cool.
clevelandphil 2 years ago
This is scary how?
nintendogsyo 2 years ago
if you had to see it during the late 60s early 70s you'd know why
RockinEd 2 years ago 3
5 stars for quality!
JP5466 2 years ago
I've noticed many commenting on the fanfare music for it. This SG television logo "bump" was done during the '60's at a time when electronic music was becoming more mainstream. The Bach musical album "Switched On Bach" was popular and the Beatles had used the Moog Synthesiser on the Abbey Road album as well. You'll notice the similarity with the PBS precursor "NET" bump with similar electronic music. There was also a move graphically to simple logos a la the CBS eye.
2441822831 2 years ago
NET's was written by the same person- Eric Siday. He also did the CBS 'in Color" jingle.
MissSkymin 2 years ago
CLASSIC!
CadillacL 2 years ago
I don't understand why people are afraid of this logo. The music IS bizarre, but other than that, this is nothing to be intimidated by.
DeanBurrito25 2 years ago
You must not have seen it when you were 4 years old right before you had to go to bed, and THEN had to listen to your parents watch "The Twilight Zone" as you slipped into a nightmare-filled sleep.
gwugluud11 2 years ago
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DeanBurrito25 2 years ago
The animation actually looks pretty cool once you realize the front rectangle isn't moving diagonally upwards and shrinking, but moving away from you.
82ghostbuster 2 years ago
The "S" look a little like the number 9.
qr11k 2 years ago 2
I just died a little inside
Adam19822000 2 years ago
What's that supposed to be anyway ? Is it the letter "S" ? Is it some film rolling up ?
gwugluud11 2 years ago
its the letter S
crazylaura64 2 years ago
"S" for Screen, in which there is a lower-cap stylized "g" for Gems.
ClassicTVMan81 2 years ago
ahhhhhhhhhhh it burns it burns
babiiswa9908 2 years ago
This one is a whole lot less creepy than its predecessor (which took up pretty much the entire screen).
AllRequired 2 years ago
I can't figure out why this logo is supposed to be scary. Is it the music or the logo that's supposed to be weird?
banther1972 2 years ago
I saw this last Sunday on WGN at the end of Bewitched and then the sony logo.
neinsudtexas10 2 years ago 2
This Logo Is Not To Scary!
johnnieRad 2 years ago 17
I agree.
neinsudtexas10 2 years ago
not to scary what?
sonofLellan 2 years ago
logo
kevolinko 2 years ago
@johnnieRad i think what makes a logo "scary" is the music.
burger414 1 year ago
i watched the end of bewitched on living(uk channel) just to see this logo!
it was in good quality so the music was less intimidating.
still in your face though cuz my tv's a bit wide...
crazylaura64 2 years ago
Used to see this at the end of I Dream of Jeannie and The Monkees re-runs in the 70's.
lexbates 2 years ago
I read an interesting blog the other day about the Screen Gems logo. The blogger suggested that TV companies in the past created eerie logos to encourage kids to not watch too much TV.
Didn't work in my case. I would sit there transfixed and frozen like a baby bird before a King Cobra. Ah memories....
aramanth 2 years ago
Thought I was only one who thought this was creepy.....but nothing beats creepy logo music like the Rankin-Bass logo!
Thanks for posiing this, been a long time!
aramanth 2 years ago
What instrument could they have used back in the 1960's to make this tune??
kenstar10 2 years ago
According to some sources, it was played on Violins and processed through a synthesizer to get that eerie sound.
VancouverTVGuy 2 years ago
No, it was done on a Moog Synthesizer. Eric Siday was one of the first customers of that instrument.
batterymaker 2 years ago
Easy, sounds like a trumpet fanfare. Could be done with a brass section.
batterymaker 2 years ago