Here's how the major movie studios' logos have changed over time

As evidenced in Google's moving of one letter one pixel to the right last year, branding and logos are absolutely obsessed over.

None more so than those of film studios, who need to make their idents as cinematic and rousing as possible and update them in accordance with advances in animation, all without tarnishing the 'classic' feel of their brand.

It's surprising just how many iterations of the 20th Century Fox logo there have been for instance, and how they encapsulate the aesthetic of their eras (also, they had some trouble with their 0s):

1914

1931

1933

1936

1936

1940

1942

1953

1955

1955 again

1970

1977 (Star Wars)

1979

1981

1985

1987

1994

2007

2009

2011

1913 - present

Futurama

Some other studios:

(Kubrick used an altered MGM logo for 2001: A Space Odyssey because he didn't want the lion's roar ruining the ambience)

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