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Background

21st Century Pictures is an Australian home media distributor that primarily focuses on foreign and art-house films. Not to be confused with 21st Century Film Corporation or 21st Century Entertainments.

1st Logo (1990s?-2002)

Visuals: On a dark blue space background with a bunch of stars, a purple nebula, and even a planet, a stone structure comes rotating and zooming in towards the camera. Then, it suddenly stops at a tilted angle, and many yellow lines shoot in from both sides of the screen like lasers to form "21", with "ST" inside the "1". Then, pieces of the word "CENTURY" in a conjoined Stop font, fly in and lock into place underneath "21st", shining when its completed. "PICTURES" fades in below.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: First, a rising synth cord, followed by laser sounds for the forming of "21st", and locking sounds when the segments of "CENTURY" appear.

Availability: Seen on 21st Century tapes of this time period, most notably a co-release of Akira with Festival Video.

2nd Logo (2002-)

Visuals: There is a red coloured version of the last logo, this time in 3-D, zooming out on an angle. It then rotates to face the viewer on a blue curtain background, with a light shining on the top left of the screen.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A generic space age-sounding tune.

Availability: Seen on all DVDs by the company, mainly those of Hopscotch.

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-=== Background ===
+===Background===
-st Century Pictures is an Australian home media distributor that primarily focuses on foreign and art-house films. Not to be confused with [[21st Century Film Corporation]] or [[21st Century Entertainments (UK)|21st Century Entertainments]].
+'''21st Century Pictures''' is an Australian home media distributor that primarily focuses on foreign and art-house films. Not to be confused with [[21st Century Film Corporation]] or [[21st Century Entertainments|21st Century Entertainments]].
-=== 1st Logo (1990s?-2000s?) ===
+===1st Logo (1990s?-2002)===
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+st Century Pictures (2002).png
+</gallery>
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-'''Logo:''' On a {{Font color|darkblue|dark blue}} space background with a bunch of stars, a {{Font color|purple|purple}} nebula, and even a planet, a stone structure comes rotating and zooming in towards us. Then, it suddenly stops at a tilted angle, and many {{Font color|yellow|yellow}} lines shoot in from both sides of the screen like lasers to form "{{Font color|yellow|'''21'''}}", with "{{Font color|yellow|'''ST'''}}" inside the "{{Font color|yellow|'''1'''}}". Then, pieces of the word "{{Font color|yellow|'''CENTURY'''}}" in a conjoined Stop font, fly in and lock into place underneath "{{Font color|yellow|'''21st'''}}", shining when its completed. "{{Font color|yellow|'''PICTURES'''}}" fades in below.
+'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} space background with a bunch of stars, a {{color|darkviolet|purple}} nebula, and even a planet, a stone structure comes rotating and zooming in towards the camera. Then, it suddenly stops at a tilted angle, and many {{color|gold|yellow}} lines shoot in from both sides of the screen like lasers to form "{{color|gold|'''21'''}}", with "{{color|gold|'''ST'''}}" inside the "{{color|gold|'''1'''}}". Then, pieces of the word "{{color|gold|'''CENTURY'''}}" in a conjoined Stop font, fly in and lock into place underneath "{{color|gold|'''21st'''}}", shining when its completed. "{{color|gold|'''PICTURES'''}}" fades in below.
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''FX/SFX:''' Very smooth and slick early 90s computer animation.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' First, a rising synth cord, followed by laser sounds for the forming of "21st", and locking sounds when the segments of "CENTURY" appear.
+'''Audio:''' First, a rising synth cord, followed by laser sounds for the forming of "21st", and locking sounds when the segments of "CENTURY" appear.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on 21st Century tapes of this time period, most notably a co-release of ''Akira'' with [[Festival Video (Australia)|Festival Video]].
+'''Availability:''' Seen on 21st Century tapes of this time period, most notably a co-release of ''Akira'' with [[Festival Video |Festival Video]].
+===2nd Logo (2002-)===
-'''Editor's Note:''' The space background is dark and first-time viewers will not expect a stone to be flying at them.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
-=== 2nd Logo (2000s?-) ===
+st Century Pictures (2000s).png
+</gallery>
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-'''Logo:''' We see a {{Font color|red|red}} coloured version of the last logo, this time in 3-D, zooming out on an angle. It then rotates to face the viewer on a {{Font color|blue|blue}} curtain background, with a light shining on the top left of the screen.
+'''Visuals:''' There is a {{color|red}} coloured version of the last logo, this time in 3-D, zooming out on an angle. It then rotates to face the viewer on a {{color|blue}} curtain background, with a light shining on the top left of the screen.
-'''FX/SFX:''' Just the zooming out of the logo and the movement of the light.
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' A generic space age-sounding tune.
+'''Audio:''' A generic space age-sounding tune.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on all DVDs by the company, mainly those of [[Hopscotch Films (Australia)|Hopscotch]].
+'''Availability:''' Seen on all DVDs by the company, mainly those of [[Hopscotch Films |Hopscotch]].
-'''Editor's Note:''' The music of the logo starts very suddenly and can come on naturally loud. Most of the time, this logo is unexpected.
-[[Category:Home entertainment logos]][[Category:Australian logos]][[Category:Australian home entertainment logos]]
+[[Category:Home entertainment logos]]
+[[Category:Australia]]
+[[Category:Australian home entertainment logos]]