Logos... from hell!
When I was a child and the world was young and we all watched movies on VHS, there was one logo that would always scare the hell out of me. And now, thanks to the good folks at Cartoon Brew (both writer Jerry Beck and his passionate, long-memoried commenters), I now know that I was not alone, and that the logo has a name. It's the "Neon Mickey," which opened Disney videos from 1978-84 (YouTube knows everything, provided it's sufficiently trivial). It's Mickey as a neon grid, rays of light emanating from his hollow outline while inappropriately martial brass marches in and out of minor keys at a really loud volume. By the time it finally emerges from the minor key into a major resolution, it's too late. I was not happy. What reminded me of all this is "The S From Hell," a documentary short from director Rodney Ascher...
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