What’s interesting is that the original note on the CLG wiki was that early split-screen credits used it, implying that the usual waves crashing/seagulls hadn’t been realized yet.
I’ve looked through tons of commercial breaks and pretty much all of the ones from 2000-01 feature the end theme playing over the logo. The typical waves/seagulls one didn’t seem to debut until early 2002, maybe late 2001. So I assume the foghorn version was an early version of it.
When you saw the foghorn logo, was the closing theme version the only one you were familiar with?
I was familiar with the closing theme version and the waves/seagulls version. My memory could be wrong, but I feel like I saw the foghorn version in the mid-2000’s. Maybe it was kept around and was only used very rarely? Someone in an earlier post mentioned how Nickelodeon was known for airing occasional oddities like this, so it could be possible.
Why would something have been edited out? It seems odd.
Possibly the bootlegger trying to hide the fact that it was recorded in a cinema.
Hmm. Either way, contacting them seems like the best starting point. Either that or maybe looking for other theater bootlegs from around the same time. (Or possibly from the same cinema if we can determine which one this was from, but that’s pretty unlikely.)
From a bootleg VHS of "The Cat in the Hat", a brief second of this... bumper or something... can be seen just before the Universal logo. It depicts an audience viewing a picture of the Eiffel Tower with the brief sound of a phone ringing (which one of the comments says could be a "turn off your cell phone" policy, either that or maybe a feature presentation bumper). Does anyone know where this came from and where the full version can be found?
Post by generalironbeak on Feb 21, 2024 7:57:24 GMT
GBH apparently doesn’t even have the rights to release ZOOM at the moment, so unless VHS recordings of all 25 missing episodes are found, we might have hit a wall with this one.
What’s interesting is that the original note on the CLG wiki was that early split-screen credits used it, implying that the usual waves crashing/seagulls hadn’t been realized yet.
I’ve looked through tons of commercial breaks and pretty much all of the ones from 2000-01 feature the end theme playing over the logo. The typical waves/seagulls one didn’t seem to debut until early 2002, maybe late 2001. So I assume the foghorn version was an early version of it.
When you saw the foghorn logo, was the closing theme version the only one you were familiar with?
I was familiar with the closing theme version and the waves/seagulls version. My memory could be wrong, but I feel like I saw the foghorn version in the mid-2000’s. Maybe it was kept around and was only used very rarely? Someone in an earlier post mentioned how Nickelodeon was known for airing occasional oddities like this, so it could be possible.
Interesting. I assumed it was very similar to the crashing seagulls, with just a forhorn in the distance.
You know, now that you mention it, the waves crashing/seagulls could have been in there also. I just clearly remember hearing the foghorn and thinking to myself “huh that’s different.”
What’s interesting is that the original note on the CLG wiki was that early split-screen credits used it, implying that the usual waves crashing/seagulls hadn’t been realized yet.
I’ve looked through tons of commercial breaks and pretty much all of the ones from 2000-01 feature the end theme playing over the logo. The typical waves/seagulls one didn’t seem to debut until early 2002, maybe late 2001. So I assume the foghorn version was an early version of it.
When you saw the foghorn logo, was the closing theme version the only one you were familiar with?
Just an FYI, there’s a fake recreation of it going around where someone just layered the alarm clock foghorn overtop the regular logo. You can tell it’s fake as the audio just clips in and interrupts the music which would finish over the logo on early episodes.
Please don’t believe it’s the real deal cause it’s not, it’s just someone trying to interrupt the search and cash in on it similar to what happened with the lost TAT logo. youtu.be/H9HesFthId8
I found that the other day and wow, that recreation is brutal, nothing like what I “remember” (the foghorn noise being rather distant and accompanied by the waves crashing).
I distinctly remember this, and I recall it being so jarring because it wasn’t the usual sounds of either the ending theme or waves crashing/seagulls. If memory serves me right, the foghorn sounded like it could’ve been the same sound effect that was occasionally used in the show.
It also could have been different between the US and Canadian airings. Source: someone who mostly watched the Canadian airings, there were some minute differences in episodes. I don't remember what they were at this point.
Oh really? That’s the first I’ve ever heard. Was it the episodes themselves? Because I know different affiliates of PBS shows don’t include stuff like the funding credits, interstitial segments and website promos.
I thought the info on logopedia originally mentioned the Texas variant in addition to the foghorn one? Which would imply they’re two separate things.
Yes, that all originated from the CLG Wiki listing for the logo which I investigated earlier in this thread. Both were separate mentions although the foghorn was never sourced.
I wish we could get in touch with the guy who originally wrote that.