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<div class="WPC-editableContent"><div><div><font size="3"><font color="#333333"><u>Background</u>: Criterion Pictures Corp. Ltd. was an Canadian</font> 16mm movie distributor founded back in 1966 by Jack F. Murphy and based in Montreal, Canada. It has no relation to [[The Criterion Collection]]. <br/> <br/><br/>(1974?)</font></div><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:144a6a3a05af55b874d7ef7193d7a6aa.jpeg|427px|Criterion Pictures Corp, Ltd.]]<iframe frameborder="0" height="238" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/afcadee8955305c700c81329adc5cf6ab010b8d5" width="419"></iframe><br/>The logo can be seen at 0:22.<br/></font></div><div><u><font size="3"><br/></font></u></div><div><font size="3"><u>Nicknames</u>: "The Filmreels", "PBS &amp; Genesis' Older Brother"</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><u>Logo</u>: On a dark blue background (possibly black due to the scratches), two white filmreels from the left to the right roll to the center of the screen. The filmreels then continue to move, forming a pink rectangle, with a grouped celeste/pink outline. Inside the rectangle is the text:</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><div align="center"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">distributed by</font></div><div align="center"><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><b>CRITERION PICTURES CORP, LTD.</b></font></div><div align="center"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">montreal</font></div><div align="center"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br/></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The filmreels than move away, leaving us the logo for a few seconds.</font></div><font size="3"><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: 2D animation of the filmreels.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div></div><div><font size="3"><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A creepy warbling Moog synthesizer that keeps changing it's pitch, not too dissimilar to the 1970s [[Public Broadcasting Service]] and [[Sesame Workshop|Children's Television Workshop]] logos.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Very rare. Possibly on a few films that this company had distributed, although the only known release from the company was from the British comedy film <i>Man About </i><i>The House.</i></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></div></div><br/></div>