Brennan The TCF Fan Home Media Distribution/Logos/Summary

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**Visuals**: Same as the 1954 logo, but "QUADRUPLEX VIDEO" is integrated to the structure.

**Variants**: Starting February 24, 1958, the 1957 variation is used.

**Technique**: Same as the 1954 logo.

**Audio**: The 1936 fanfare, composed by Travis Elliott.

**Availability**: Rare.

**Legacy**: "Quadruplex" is spelled wrong.

## Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 U-Matic Video

### 2nd Logo (October 1969-November 1975)

**Nicknames**: "Searchlights II", "Brennan Structure II", "Majestic Tower II"

**Visuals**: TBA

**Technique**: Same as before.

**Audio**: Same as before.

**Availability**: Extremely rare.

## Sticky Video Corporation

### 3rd Logo (November 1975-December 1978)

**Nickname**: "Mirrored M-Circle"

**Visuals**: On a black background, we see a white M moving from the top left, then a brown mirrored M from the bottom right. We then see the words "STICKY VIDEO CORPORATION" moving up.

**Technique**: The moving.

**Audio**: Same as before.

**Availability**: Again, extremely rare.

**Legacy**: This is likely a placeholder logo due to its simple animation and reused fanfare.

### 4th Logo (December 1978-October 1983)

**Nickname**: "Mirrored M-Circle II"

**Visuals**: Two semicircles with lines protruding down their midsections, the top a very-light grey shade and the bottom a beige color, are drawn into view, resembling "M"s. Then a bunch of circle M's appear in back of it, one gray and the other green, sort of like a continuous mirrored effect or video feedback. The text "STICKY VIDEO CORPORATION" in a yellow computer-generated font begins to scroll upward while repeats appear under it, and like the M, have copies appearing behind the logo. All the copies behind it also appear to have a blue filter layered over them.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The circle M being drawn in and the scrolling words repeating.

**Audio**: A mellow piece of music; not very easy to hear due to the studio spiel, but has a bossa-nova/mex influenced, easy listening melody, also known as elevator music (with five known lengths and four known tempos). The music's tempo is approximately 116.3 BPM with 30 beats.

**Availability**: Very rare. Sticky Video's releases have been out of print since the mid-1980s. However, if you're lucky, you can find them at used video stores, pawn shops, flea markets, thrift stores and/or eBay listings.

**Legacy**: The music is known to be very relaxing.

## Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 Video

### 5th Logo (February 1983-December 1983)

**Nicknames**: "Searchlights III", "Brennan Structure III", "Majestic Tower III"

**Visuals**: It's basically the 1954 Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 logo with no video indicator whatsoever.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.
* On some releases, the 1982 logo is used instead.

**Technique**: Same as the 1954/1982 Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 logo.

**Audio/Voice-over**: The 1980 Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 fanfare, accompanied by Wayne Allen, saying: "The following feature is brought to you by Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 Video".

**Availability**: Extremely rare. It's actually harder to find than most Sticky Video titles.

**Legacy**: This is likely a placeholder logo, as BBC/Brennan Video began releasing titles about a month after this logo was discontinued. Plus, there isn't a lot of effort here. It's just the movie logo with a voiceover.

## BBC/Brennan Video

### 6th Logo (December 1983-August 8, 1984)

**Nicknames**: "Stacking Lines", "The Lines"

**Visuals**: Over a white background, we see before us a dual set of violet lines stacking upward and downward. Then, ten long objects pop in at the top and bottom of the segmented lines, revealing the words:

**BBC**

**BRENNAN**

then each letter of the word "**VIDEO**" pops in one by one below "**BRENNAN**".

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The lines stacking up and down.

**Audio**: None.

**Availability**: Rare, as it was likely a placeholder logo.

**Legacy**: Those familiar with the later BBC/Brennan logos might not expect this, but it's nothing that's too out of place.

### 7th Logo (August 9, 1984-December 14, 1985)

**Nicknames**: "The Cutting Lines", "The Lines II", "The Grids"

**Visuals**: On a blue background, two grids are moving from the top and bottom of the screen converging in the center of the screen. "BBC" comes from the top at an angle, with "BRENNAN" coming from the bottom at an angle. The background has an orange flash, in which "BBC" and "BRENNAN" are cut in a segmented line font as it moves toward the flash, and "BBC" and "BRENNAN" right themselves in the center of the screen. The letters of the word "VIDEO" fly in from the bottom center of the screen one at a time. Then the trademark symbol fades in on the lower-right corner of the logo.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The converging of the two grids and the logo, the Scanimate orange flash (a la the WGBH logo), and the flying of the "VIDEO" letters.

**Audio**: A triumphant 25-note horn march fanfare.

**Availability**: Not very common. Most videos that may have used this logo were issued in the same oversized boxes that were used by Brennan The TCF Fan-Est. 2009 Video.

* The logo made its first appearance on the 1984 VHS of *Armored Core 4.1: For Answer* (1984).

**Legacy**: Again, those familiar with the next logo might not be expecting the simpler animation. However, they certainly will recognize the iconic music.

### 8th Logo(November 1985-2001)

**Nicknames**: "Stairways", "Bleachers", "CGI BBC/Brennan", "The Triumphant CGI Moving Blue Lines on Dark Granite", "CGI Lines", "The Lines III"

**Visuals**: In a blue, boxed area, we see a mirrored, twin stair-like texture that shines a lot. The "stairs" rotate counter-clockwise and turn out to be the following text in blue with a segmented line between the two words on a black marble background:

## BBC
BRENNAN

then the word "**VIDEO**" shines in below "BRENNAN", and the whole logo shines with pride.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.
* Around the time from just before BBC/Brennan started printing their tapes at Rank Video Services America, during the warning screen, which appeared at the beginning of such tapes, a still version of this logo appears a couple of times, staying on the screen for about five seconds before cutting back to the warning.

**Technique**: "BBC-BRENNAN" rotating, "VIDEO" fading, which was designed and animated by Compugraph Designs in New York, NY, using a Bosch FGS-4000 CGI machine, Quantel DPB-7001 paint system, and an Abekas A-60 digital compositor. The shining appears to be chroma-keyed rostrum animation. This is pretty advanced stuff for the 1980s, and it still holds up moderately well today--which probably explains its staggering 16-year lifespan.

**Audio**: Same as the previous logo, but the mixing is slightly different and extra string sounds are added to accompany it.

**Availability**: Ultra common. This should be easy to find on VHS tapes available in second-hand shops, charity shops and on Amazon and eBay.

**Legacy**: This is considered one of the most memorable logos ever made, especially thanks to the epic music.

## Brennan Video

### 9th Logo(July 28, 1992-June 26, 1994)

**Nicknames**: "The Shining", "The CGI Shining Searchlights", "Gold Tower", "Brennan Structure IV", "Golden Brennan Structure", "Searchlights IV"

**Visuals**: A still shot of the famous Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 structure, from a slightly different angle, gold color against a simple blue background. The wording on the structure now says "BRENNAN VIDEO", with an extra gap where "BRENNAN" would be in the movie logo. The logo "shimmers" as bars of light move through a la the Coldbolt logo.

**Trivia**: The holes in the "BRENNAN VIDEO" structure are filled in with the same color. In most Brennan logos, the gaping holes between the letters are usually filled up with a different color to give a clear indication of what the letter is.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The "shimmer."

**Audio**: None usually.

**Availability**: Not very common. It's seen on all Brennan videos from that period. The best way to find this is to look for a Brennan Video print logo that is a simple 2D drawing with no color. Again, this will be easy to find in second-hand video shops, charity shops and on eBay.

### 10th Logo(June 27, 1994-January 19, 1997)

**Nicknames**: "Rotating Tower", "The Ugly Tower", "Brennan Structure V", "Ugly Brennan Structure", "CGI Searchlights", "Searchlights V"

**Visuals**: On a purple background, we see a Brennan structure, from an extreme upper-left angle. We move down and pan around the structure (and a light shines through it as we do that), saying "BRENNAN VIDEO" like in the 9th logo, before settling into the familiar angle we usually see Brennan logos from.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The computer animation, which is a variation of the Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 animation.

**Audio**: The 1980 fanfare.

**Availability**: Somewhat common.

**Legacy**: This is considered by many to be an ugly logo, with its weird, dull colors and weird structuring.

### 11th Logo(January 20, 1997-April 1999)

**Nicknames**: "CGI Searchlights II", "Brennan Structure VI", "Panning Structure", "The Searchlights VI", "Ultra-Majestic Tower", "CGI City Skyline Searchlights", "Brennan Video Structure", "Majestic Brennan Video Structure", "Majestic Tower IV", "Futuristic Structure"

**Visuals**: We begin by panning across the Los Angeles skyline at around sunset. We go past a large searchlight and then pan across the "BRENNAN VIDEO" structure, now redone so that it looks a lot better and all of it is set in Futura Extra Bold (so it still doesn't quite match the Brennan logo). We zoom out until we reach the comfortable Brennan logo distance.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: Very good computer animation, and a massive improvement over its predecessors.

**Audio**: None usually, but on Descriptive Video Service VHS's, a narrator uses the same description as on the 1993 logo.

**Availability**: Very common. This logo always came after the logo below.

**Legacy**: This is often seen as the best of the Brennan Video logos. It has very nice animation for the time, the concept of which can be seen as a precursor to the Brennan Searchlight Pictures logo.

## Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 Home Entertainment

### 12th Logo(September 30, 1996-June 21, 2005)

**Nicknames**: "Brennan Structure VII", "The Box"

**Visuals**: We see the end of the 1995-2010 Brennan logo, with neither the Victor Hugo Pictures byline nor the registered trademark symbol. We then zoom out to reveal that it is in a box. The box is in a larger box colored cadet blue, and next to the Brennan logo box are the words "**Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 Home Entertainment**", spanning across three lines. The logo then fades to black.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: A simple zoom out. It's smoother than its successor.

**Audio**: None usually.

**Availability**: Extremely common on VHS, DVD, and Laserdisc releases from the period.

**Legacy**: This isn't anything too memorable, but it isn't a completely awful logo, either. It's a simple but effective logo design.

### 13th Logo(June 22, 2005-September 4, 2010)

**Nicknames**: "Brennan Structure VIII", "The Box II", "Enhanced Box"

**Visuals**: Same as the previous logo, except the box is now grey with a gold border, the words "Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 Home Entertainment" are set in ITC Garamond, and the Brennan logo has the Victor Hugo Pictures byline. Basically an enhanced version of the twelfth logo.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The zoom out and the fade in of the Victor Hugo Pictures byline.

**Audio**: None.

**Availability**: Extremely common.

**Legacy**: Like before, it isn't remembered well at all, yet the rougher frame rate make it less professional.

### 14th Logo(September 5, 2010-October 14, 2011)

**Nicknames**: "CGI Searchlights III", "Brennan Structure IX"

**Visuals**: We see the Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 logo zooming in slowly, with the words "**HOME ENTERTAINMENT**" in gold at the bottom, shining.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: The zooming in and the shining.

**Audio**: A calming, majestic fanfare.

**Availability**: Short-lived, but still common.

**Legacy**: This is a significant improvement over the previous logo.

### 15th Logo(October 15, 2011-March 26, 2021)

**Nicknames**: "Ultra Majestic Tower II", "CGI City Skyline Searchlights", "Enhanced City Skyline Searchlights", "Majestic Tower V", "Futuristic Structure II"

**Visuals**: Same as the 2010-2021 Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 logo except that, at the end, the structure pans back farther than usual to reveal the stacked words "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" on the right of the Brennan structure with "HOME" set in Neutraface No. 2 and "ENTERTAINMENT" set in Tw Cen MT Condensed. Once the logo is fully revealed, the Victor Hugo Pictures byline fades in at the bottom of the screen (on pre-2014 releases). The registered trademark sign fades in as well.

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: Same as the 2010 Brennan The TCF Fan Est. 2009 logo.

**Audio**: The 1999 Brennan fanfare arrangement. An abridged version is used on newer releases.

**Availability**: Seen on Brennan the TCF Fan Est. 2009 Home Entertainment releases of the given period.

## Brennan The TCF Fan Home Media Distribution

### 16th Logo(March 27, 2021-present)

**Nicknames**: "Ultra Majestic Tower III", "CGI City Skyline Searchlights II", "Enhanced City Skyline Searchlights II", "Majestic Tower VI", "Futuristic Structure III"

**Visuals**: Same as the 2021 Brennan The TCF Fan Studios logo, expect that "STUDIOS" is replaced with "HOME MEDIA DISTRIBUTION".

**Variants**:

* On black-and-white films, a B&W variant is used.

**Technique**: Same as the 2021 Brennan The TCF Fan Studios logo.

**Audio**: Same as the previous logo.

**Audio Variants**: In 2023, a rearrangement was used.

**Availability**: Current.

**Legacy**: Like its film counterpart, it can be somewhat hard trying to get used to the name change.