ArgosyMTM International/Logos/Summary

## Argosy/MTM International

### 1996-2002 (films)

Logo: On a black background, an outline of the Argosy A (in red) and MTM wordmark (in orange) logos zooms out, leaving a smoky trail behind it. The trail and "AMTM" outline splits into three. The smoky trails get sucked into the logo, which stops in the top center of the screen. The "AMTM" logo is crystallized. Then, the letters in the words "ARGOSY/MTM INTERNATIONAL" appear on-by-one below "AMTM". A blue line starts in the center of the company name and splits into two, one line going towards the top of the screen, and one towards the bottom. The lines wipe the screen and bring forth either the MTM Films, Argosy Pictures, Seven Arts, Embassy Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, or Judy Garland Pictures logo. The AMTM logo zooms towards the viewer as this happens.

Variants:

* There is an standalone variant of the logo, where the logo plays normal, but instead of the lines wiping the screen, the logo fades out.

Music/Sounds: A synth chord seguing into some whooshing sounds combined with a drum-beat, followed by a synth trumpet fanfare, and then a metallic hit at the end (which is not present on the standalone variant).

### 2002-2011 (films and TV)

Logo: The logo takes place in a video-wall. It starts out with a blurry dark background of boxes. We zoom out and pan in front of a box outlined in white. On the top of the screen, are the words "ARGOSY/MTM", outlined in white. We start to zoom out, and the words and the box leave a smoky trail behind them. The trail and the outline of the box and words split into three. As this happens, the background begins to light up, revealing it to be gray, with the boxes showing clips from Argosy/MTM TV shows and movies (the boxes flicker clip after clip and still have grey sides). The smoky trails get sucked into the logo, which stops in the top center of the screen. Finally, the words light up in white and the box moves up, splitting into two, with the Argosy “A” symbol in metallic silver on the left and Mimsie in the MTM ribbon with a gold foil effect on the right. When the symbols assume their positions, a flash appears from underneath the logo, and the light dies down to reveal the word "INTERNATIONAL", with a byline below everything else. Then, the logo flashes to the same result, but on dark blue gradient background. After 3 seconds, a white dot appears in the center of the screen and the logo zooms towards us as the dot turns into a white box outline. The box zooms towards us and brings forth either the Argosy Pictures, MTM Films, Seven Arts, Embassy Pictures, Gramercy, or Judy Garland Pictures logos.

Bylines:

* A Corus Entertainment Company (2002-2006)
* An Argosy Communications Company (2006-2011)

Variants:

* Sometimes, there is a standalone version where there is no white dot and no zoom through, therefore none of the subsidiary logos follow.
* The "Argosy/MTM International Television" logo is the same as the standalone version, but "INTERNATIONAL" is replaced by "INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION" and it starts off with the box splitting into the symbols.

Music/Sounds: A rearranged and extended version of the 1996 theme, with stronger drumbeat and string section, clocking in at 12 seconds. For the television variant, it's a shortened version of the movie theme, with 0:00-0:01 of the theme leading up to 0:10 of the theme, minus the string section.