Structure Searchlight Pictures

Background: Structure Searchlight Pictures was formed in 1994 under Olds Corporation as an art-house label of Great Structure Film Corporation to produce and distribute all independent, artistic, foreign, horror, African-American, and alternative film releases. From the early-to-mid 1980s, Structure released independent films under the banner of Great-Structure International Classics.

1st Logo

(1995-1996)

Nicknames: "Searchlights", "Still Searchlights"

Logo: It's the still version of the 1994 Great Structure logo, except "GREAT STRUCTURE" is replaced with "STRUCTURE SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES", with "SEARCHLIGHT" in the middle larger, and with "STRUCTURE" above and "PICTURES" below, respectively. The Olds Corporation byline is still there.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the trailer.

Availability: Seen on the trailers for very early Fox Searchlight Pictures releases like Boy 7, with the only actual release with the logo being He's the Two.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo

(August 9, 1995- )

Nickname: "CGI City Skyline Searchlights"

Logo: We start out looking at a city skyline (most likely that of Los Angeles). The camera begins to move right, past a searchlight. The searchlight turns on, followed by many more in the background turning on. We then reach the middle of the Great Structure "stack" structure, but instead of seeing a narrow "STRUCTURE", we see a large "SEARCHLIGHT". The camera pulls back and reveals "STRUCTURE" above and "PICTURES" below. The byline "A OLDS CORPORATION COMPANY" fades in, then the rightmost searchlight moves towards us, filling the screen with light, then we fade out.

Variants:

On some films, the Olds Corporation byline is slightly smaller.

There is another variant where the logo is a bit brighter and the background is a dark blue city skyline. The Olds Corporation byline is in a different font and a bit smaller. There's no panning animation and the right searchlight doesn't turn towards us filling the screen with light at the end.

FX/SFX: The movement of the camera.

Music/Sounds: The 1994 Great Structure fanfare, later replaced in 1998.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On some films like 4 Weeks Later and Bigcat Winner, there is a low tone version of the fanfare.

On the variant, it has the short version of the 1997 Structure fanfare.

Availability: Common; seen on indie, art-house, and foreign movie releases distributed by Great Structure.

Scare Factor: Minimal; you may get some first-time jitters, while expecting the current Great Structure logo and ending up with this, but it's pretty clean.