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- The Deep Note. Before we get too deep into the different logos – or 'trailers' as the community refers to them – we can’t start without talking about the Deep Note.
- 1983: Wings. “For the past 35 years, motion picture loudspeaker systems have not changed…” read the first title card, as the initial strains of the Deep Note began to swell.
- Late 1983: Broadway. Debuting later that same year, the 'Broadway' version of the THX trailer received much more play, and is probably more recognisable to the casual viewer.
- 1988: Cimarron. The Cimarron version was named after an award-winning Western from 1932. It broke with tradition by abandoning the Deep Note – a move that would not prove to be popular – and instead begins with the sound of an orchestra tuning up.
- (Wings) (May 25, 1983) The logo as it appears on The THX Ultimate Demo Disc, the THX website from 2003-2009 and the official THX YouTube channel.
- (Broadway) (Late 1983-October 24, 2006, March 19, 2010-September 17, 2012) The logo as it appears on The THX Ultimate Demo Disc. The logo as it appears on Lucasfilm THX Trailers: The Audience is Listening on DVD and the THX website from 2003-2009.
- (Cimarron) (May 20, 1988-2002) The logo as it appears on The THX Ultimate Demo Disc. The logo as it appears on Lucasfilm THX Trailers: The Audience is Listening on DVD and the THX website from 2003-2005.
- (Grand) (June 11, 1993-1997) The logo as it appears on The THX Ultimate Demo Disc. The logo as it appears on Lucasfilm THX Trailers: The Audience is Listening on DVD and the THX website from 2003-2009.
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THX (officially stands for "Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment") is a motion picture quality certification system (despite being branded as a "sound system" until 1997) founded by Tomlinson Holman and George Lucas in 1982, originally named after the first film Lucas directed, THX 1138. The first film they certified was 1983's Star Wars: Return of the Je...
Nicknames: "Wings", "It Begins", "Blue THX" Trailer: On a black screen, the following white text fades in: "For the past 35 years, motion picture loudspeaker systems have not changed..." It fades out and new white text appears reading "Lucasfilm Ltd. and this theatre are pleased to introduce a new motion picture sound system." That text fades out, ...
Nicknames: "Broadway", "The Blue Rectangle", "The Audience is Now Deaf", "The Note Of Hell", ''The Audience is Listening'' Trailer: On a black background, a blue rectangular outline fades in. The gray text "The Audience is Listening" (in the Archive Modern II Open font) fades inside the outline, then fades out. A few seconds later, the THX logo in ...
Nicknames: "Cimarron", "The Conductor" Trailer: On a black background, a small gray box appears in the center of the screen. Then, the hand of a conductor, holding a wand, moves up in the box. The hand flicks the wand, blasting out a blue wormhole. It starts turning red, and when it's fully red, a 3D THX logo appears zooming past the camera against...
Nickname: "Grand" Trailer: On a black background, the white text appears that reads "This auditorium is equipped with a THX Sound System." Suddenly, the background turns into a red-black cloudy background. After a few seconds, the text "The Audience Is Listening" appears. After fading out, the background slowly turns blue. Seconds after, a light wi...
Nicknames: "The Simpsons", "Burns' Heir" Trailer: It starts in front of the fictional Springfield Aztec Theatre, complete with a film marquee with the text "SISKEL & EBERT: THE MOVIE" on it, with "TWO THUMBS UP" - SISKEL & EBERT" below it. The screen then cuts to many Simpsonscharacters appearing in theater seats, including Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...
Nickname: "Tex", "Tex 1", "Tex The Robot", "THX Broken & Fix" Trailer: The THX logo fades in on a pitch-black background as it usually would. All of a sudden, the logo sputters and then breaks down as if due to an electrical failure. A light is switched on a light blue background as a red robot named Tex rolls in from off-camera. Tex opens a panel ...
Nicknames: "Tex 2: Moo Can", "Tex 2 - Moo Can", "Tex II - Moo Can" "Tex 2", "Moo Can", "Cow", "Tex Strikes Again", "Tex Strikes Back", "Stampede", "Tex Stampede", "Tex 2 Stampede", "Pixar THX Cow", "Monster Moo Can" Trailer: The trailer starts out on a pitch-black background with a large spotlight that turns on, and a gunmetal, lifeless THX logo fa...
Nicknames: "Broadway 2000", "Let's See It In THX" Trailer: The element shown is a pitch-black screen, but then, the phrase "LET'S SEE IT IN" (set in Futura) zooms in and then fades out word-by-word at the center of the screen. Then, the THX logo appears via fading in and then shines, followed by the word "LUCASFILM" fading in above. Then, the scree...
Nicknames: "Cavalcade", "T-1000-HX", "Sphere of Doom", "T2", "Terminator 2", Terminator 2 Cavalcade", "T2 2000 Cavalcade" Trailer: The trailer starts with a darkly-lit environment as the camera zooms in toward a glassy light blue sphere, which has clouds rolling and lightning flickering. As the environment illuminates is that the sphere is barely h...
Apr 8, 2015 · The THX Deep Note has been re-created for the movie theaters of the 21st century. This group of guys in turtlenecks are from Lucasfilm, and they all helped create THX and the THX Deep Note back in ...
When he plugs it in, the graphics on the moo can change it into a Monster Moo Can. "Monster" in 3-D font fades and slides up to the top at the same time as the THX logo. When the THX logo rumbles, the Monster logo rumbles and the black screen shows the THX Monster logo in white and the THX Monster trademark in white.
Apr 2, 2015 · Instead, THX is essentially a certification system. Itoriginally vouched for the quality of the playback sound system in a theater — a kind of sonic-entertainment Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
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May 7, 2024 · Meaning Behind the Name: “THX” comes from “Tomlinson Holman’s eXperiment.”. Tomlinson Holman created the THX sound system, and the name also hints at George Lucas’s first movie, “THX 1138.”. The THX Deep Note: THX’s audio logo, known as the Deep Note, is famous. Created in 1983 by Dr. James A. Moorer, it’s a unique sound ...
