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Uploaded by on Dec 24, 2008

From the film "Remember the Night" on TCM.

The opening music played over it, so I replaced it with the proper music (thanks to JohnnyL80).

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  • "Evil theme", indeed, 'ShaDeed'. MCA wasn't known as "The Octopus" of entertainment conglomerates for nothing!

  • Which is why the rights to the TITLES for "The Virginian" and "Whispering Smith" were claimed by 'EMKA, Ltd.' in the closing credits of the MCA-TV series based on those Paramount movies, 'wm'.

  • @fromthesidelines - And MCA's holding company formed for the purpose of administering those pre-'50 Paramounts was called "Emka, Ltd."

    Such an opening logo was on many a Paramount film seen over WNEW-TV 5 through the 1980's.

  • Cool! This appeared at the beginning of Marx Brothers movies when Channel 13 (WNET New Jersey PBS) showed them in the late 1980s.

  • This theme sure is en garde!

  • "Some"? MCA {Music Corporation of America} bought virtually all of Paramount's pre-1950 feature film library in what became one of the most short-sighted deals a major studio ever made for its assets. MCA paid Paramount (who needed the cash) $50 million for 750 feature films- which they easily earned back in less than a few years through aggressive sales of the library to local stations. Eventually, MCA claimed they earned a BILLION DOLLARS from those Paramount films over a forty year period.

  • Cool logo, but the 'a' at the top bugs me...

  • Taken from "Broken Lullaby". I've seen it on TCM last month where it did have that logo. Some of the old Parmount films shown on TCM sometimes uses the MCA-TV "Arrowhead" logo.

  • I used to see this on WGN with old movies on a show called "Family Classics". Later I saw it on WPWR on some movies from Paramount. I read that MCA bought some of Parmount's movies

  • Thanks for posting. Nice to see this in better condition.

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