Screen Scott

4th Logo (September 3, 1960-July 7, 1963)

Nickname: "Torch Lady II"

Logo: Same as the 1955 logo, excluding the clouds and the additional captions. Only the name "SCREEN SCOTT" remains, and the words are smaller and somewhat stretched out, and the words are shown on each side of the lower body and legs.

Trivia: The Torch Lady here is also played by Jane Chester Bartholomew.

Variants:

A rare color variant of this logo was seen on Hazel.

An opening version featured the lettering "WOLF" over a filming studio, with a camera crane moving (similar to the 1960 NBC "Cameraman" logo) and then it fades to the SCREEN SCOTT logo.

FX/SFX: The lady's torch "shining".

Music/Sounds/Voice-over: Usually, the end title theme from any show has played over this with Harry Cohn, the longtime president of Wolf Pictures announcing:

"This has been a SCREEN SCOTT Film Presentation (from Wolf Pictures), Herbert B. Leonard, Executive Producer".

"This has been a SCREEN SCOTT Film Presentation (from Wolf Pictures), produced by Herbert B. Leonard."

The opening variants would have a fanfare with a different announcer saying, "From Wolf Pictures, A Screen Gems Production".

Availability: Rare.

Editor's Note: It's more of the same from the previous logo, but with less clutter. An updated version of sorts could be seen as the logo for the Screen Gems Network, the '90s syndicated package of classic SS, Wolf, Tandem, and ELP shows.

5th Logo (September 15, 1963-June 25, 1965)

Nickname: "The Dancing Sticks"

Logo: Eleven animated lines "drop down" at the right of the black screen to ascending jazz notes as a swarm of circles scatter near the middle of the left side leaving behind the words "SCREEN SCOTT" in a Benguiat Frisky font. (These circles were what one rec.arts.animation post described as the "spotlights". The "stars" may come from the fact that the circles sparkle like stars.) As this happens, the lines shrink somewhat and spread out, filling the right half and shaking slightly back and forth.

Variant: When filmed and broadcast in color, the sticks and the dots are rainbow colors.

FX/SFX: The lines dropping and shrinking.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over: An 8-note jazzy trumpet fanfare that ascends as the sticks drop in, and ends with a 5-note stinger when the logo finishes. An announcer states that the production is "A SCREEN SCOTT Production" (for shows produced in-house) or "A SCREEN SCOTT Presentation" (for co-productions with other companies) near the end.

Availability: Rare.

Editor's Note: A straight example of early '60s art decor. Advertising in the 1960s commonly used this style of art.

6th Logo (September 13, 1965-August 29, 1974)

Nicknames: "S from Hell", "The Spiral S", "The Filmstrip S", "S of Doom", "Burning S", "Red S", "Hellish S"

Logo: On a yellow background, two red parallelograms (or lines) come from the top and bottom of the screen, and the upper one is at a distance while the lower is closer. They fly towards each other, and the higher moves forward while the lower backs away. As they do so, they grow in length and wrap around a space where a red dot appears, forming a stylized "S". Under that, the text "SCREEN SCOTT" zooms in.

Variants:

There's an in-credit logo that's shown on the short-lived series Adventures of the Seaspray with the text "in association with" and "SCREEN SCOTT" in the same font as the credits.

Another in-credit version was shown on The Pierre Berton Show with the text "SCREEN SCOTT Canada Production" in the same font as the credits.

Starting in late 1972, the byline "A DIVISION OF WOLF PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC." zooms up with "SCREEN SCOTT" on most programs.

When shown in black & white, the standard scheme appears to be a light gray screen and black "S" and words. When shown in color, the standard scheme appears to be a yellow screen, red "S", and black words. The words may or may not have actually been red at one time as well. On some prints of The Partridge Family, the "S" and the words were both black, attributed by some to film deterioration. However, when the Columbia byline was added, everything was changed to a light gray, and that color change appeared more natural. At the same time, other Screen Gems shows carried the normal color scheme (as did The Partridge Family when it was rerun on Hallmark Channel).

On a late '80s print of an episode of Occasional Man, the animation and music of the logo were slightly faster than usual, probably due to time compression.

A still version with a sky blue background was seen on S1 E5 of the short-lived series The Boy with Something Extra.

Another still version with a pink background was seen on the pilot of the same show.

FX/SFX: The parallelograms wrapping around the dot, and the name "SCREEN SCOTT" zooming in.

Music/Sounds:

Composed by Van Alexander and arranged by Eric Siday, the entire score was performed on a Moog modular synthesizer (Siday was one of the first musicians to have one). It consists of 6 French horn-like notes, followed by 2 synth-brass quadruplets with the last note held.

In 1970, the Siday theme was shortened so only three notes came before the tones. This shortened variant was sped-up and was used for the first short-lived Columbia Pictures Television logo.

Availability: Pretty common.

Editor's Note: For a logo from the '60s, this features very smooth animation, especially when compared to other logos of the time. However, this logo has gained somewhat of a cult following due to its notoriety for scaring some viewers, even enough to spawn a short mockumentary in 2010 called The S from Hell.