Has anyone noticed how Sony finally included the infamous Screen Gems "S" at the end of the season 7 DVD episodes? I love it. I remember it from when I was a child watching these shows. I've read where it used to scare some children, but it never bothered me. :D

Good question. I havent watched season 7 yet but glad they inculded the classic sreen gems "S". Most DVD's usually edit out all that stuff to put in ther Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros. or whoever logo in instead.

Has anyone noticed how Sony finally included the infamous Screen Gems "S" at the end of the season 7 DVD episodes? I love it. I remember it from when I was a child watching these shows. I've read where it used to scare some children, but it never bothered me. :D
I heard that, too, but it never bothered me. :lol:

I used to belong to the Closing Logo Group on Yahoo! Was funny to hear all the stories about this logo scaring people. It's a fave of mine :D Now the Viacom V of Doom logo was another matter :lol:

I used to belong to the Closing Logo Group on Yahoo! Was funny to hear all the stories about this logo scaring people. It's a fave of mine :D Now the Viacom V of Doom logo was another matter :lol:
The V of Doom still freaks me out. :eek: :lol:

I always thought, and still do, that the S, and the music that accompanied it, lent a warm, friendly touch to the shows it closed. That and the 1955-60 SG torch lady-the version that also appeared on some Three Stooges shorts for eons-are my two favorite Screen Gems logos.

OMG don't tell me they included the scary Screen Gems "S" at the end of the season 7 DVD episodes. That thing scared the hell out of me as a kid. If I buy this DVD, I will have to skip that part for fear if I see this now the bad memory will resurface and I will never recover again. ;) :lol:

I always thought, and still do, that the S, and the music that accompanied it, lent a warm, friendly touch to the shows it closed. That and the 1955-60 SG torch lady-the version that also appeared on some Three Stooges shorts for eons-are my two favorite Screen Gems logos.
I didn't know that there were 2 Screen Gems logos. :lol:

The "S from Hell":

I didn't know that there were 2 Screen Gems logos. :lol:

There is another Screen Gems logo, I describe it as the one with the "dancing sticks". I believe it was used during the early and mid 60's. I have seen it at the end of some Hazel episodes.

^ This is the only other SG logo I could find.

Click below to see the Screen Gems "dancing sticks" logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlDH8I266Zw

Click below to see the Screen Gems "dancing sticks" logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlDH8I266Zw
Thanks, Lee - I'd never seen that one before.

Another Screen Gems logo is the Columbia Lady herself, with Screen Gems, Television Subsidary Columbia Pictures Corporation used as the lettering on it.

Screen Gems exists today as a genre specific label for Columbia Pictures, using the S from Hell in usually a blue, crystal type look--many logo afficianados called this the S from Heaven.

Here's an early SG logo with the lady:

The screen gems S never scared me . I always thought it looked like two toboggans!!

^ I heard it was supposed to be two filmstrips.

^ I heard it was supposed to be two filmstrips.
That makes sense! I guess its just the Canadian in me that made me see toboggans instead!!

Thanks, Lee - I'd never seen that one before.

You're welcome. You Tube is great, you can find almost anything on there.

You're welcome. You Tube is great, you can find almost anything on there.
Very true. :cool: :D

Very true. :cool: :D

Yep, I even found one of my all time favorite commercials, a 1974 ad for RC cola. I thought I would never see this again until I found it on you tube. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksAaMWHAB8

Thank you, Lee! :cool:

The Screen Gems "S" from Hell never bothered me, either. Now the Paramount "Closet Killer" logo at the end of the first season "Brady Bunch" episodes-that was a different story. I used to dread the closing credits from that first season, knowing what was coming up. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fVJwc8hiE&feature=related

The Screen Gems "S" from Hell never bothered me, either. Now the Paramount "Closet Killer" logo at the end of the first season "Brady Bunch" episodes-that was a different story. I used to dread the closing credits from that first season, knowing what was coming up. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fVJwc8hiE&feature=related
I don't like that one, either. :eek:

^ I heard it was supposed to be two filmstrips.

Look closely, it could be either an S or a G.


BTW they've also brought it back for the Partridge Family Season 4 box set.

Look closely, it could be either an S or a G.


BTW they've also brought it back for the Partridge Family Season 4 box set.
I'll have to look at it more closely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcWkVIqLyg

I have a question: was there ever a B&W Screen Gems "S from Hell" logo attached to the end of every Three Stooges short when they were re-ran in the 1970's? And if so, wasn't the jingle the original creepy Eric Siday tune, or the "Batfink" special horn jingle originally used for the 1/2-hour syndication version of the series in question?

~Ben

1) Absolutely not. 2) Huh...? To be responsive, obviously the answer would be no (whatever the question is....)

Why is it called the "s" from hell?:confused:

Why is it called the "s" from hell?:confused:
The animation of two parallelograms connecting to each other to form an "S" with a dot in the middle. This dot makes an outline that, when viewed with the lower of the parallelograms, forms the letter "g" (lower case), hence "Screen Gems."

The regular Eric Siday-composed jingle, performed on a Moog Modular synthesizer, wasn't really tame. Following six notes resembling a simulated violin (or whatever), the two arpeggio notes that play as the words "SCREEN GEMS" emerge from nowhere, to be seen below the "S," may startle a few people.

~Ben

Could anyone please tell me exactly whether or not the Screen Gems logo from 1970 to 1974 (with the shorter, 3-note-and-2-arpeggio music) was on a gold background and a red "S" logo (like the 1965-70 version of the logo)?

Other times in this period, the "S" was brown and that may likely have been because of film deterioration.

~Ben

When I first saw the S I thought it looked like two floor tiles coming together. The Wackiest Ship In The Army was the first show I saw to have that logo.