Thursday, December 10, 2009

Scream Gems

The "S from Hell" is what some kids called the Screen Gems logo which closed 60s/70s TV shows like The Monkees, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and The Partridge Family.

Some kids were spooked by the strange music played while the dot in the middle was approached by menacing lines.

There is a short film at Sundance about this childhood fear.



Personally, I never feared a damn logo as a kid - I would have watched a beheading as long as it followed my beloved Samantha and Jeannie and Flying Nun.
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5 comments:

  1. Mavis MartiniDecember 10, 2009 at 6:04 PM

    That's just as nutty as a fruitcake! Those kooks better not come to Wilmywood-the airport is right down the road from....SCREEN GEMS STUDIOS, taunting them with their giant logo on the soundstage!

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  2. Jayson KennedyDecember 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM

    Hell, I thought Screen Gems was an much more recent branch of Sony Pictures.

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  3. ChristopherDecember 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM

    I always thought Screen Gems would make a great Toothpaste name..

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  4. UnknownDecember 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    I used to say "Zis has been a Filmvays presentation, dahling" out loud at the end of "Green Acres" along with Eva Gabor . . .

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  5. KeithDecember 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    There wasn't much that scared me as a kid.

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