Oz Flm Company

This company, also known as The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, produced silent films based off L. Frank Baum's books, most notably the Oz series. Every one of them has bombed commercially. The movies they make has various colors and custom themes playing over it, like silent films traditionally do.

Nicknames : "Princess Ozma", "Oz Lady of Doom," "The first Scary Logo", "VID's Granny", "VID/BИD Has an Older Sister", "The Grandmother of All Nightmare Logos", "V for Vivian"

Logo: On a black background, we see a woman (silent film actress Vivian Reed, see "Trivia") wearing two flowers and a crown-like object on her forehead with a Z inside a circle (obviously the company name) with a few loose curls hanging down, apparently supposed to be Princess Ozma from the book series. She looks around the screen and smiles. No obvious indication of the name of the company is shown and it only appears on the title card of the movie.

Trivia: The woman is this logo is the late silent film actress Vivian Reed(1894-1989), an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 36 films between 1914 and 1938.

Variants:
 * The logo including the film has been shown in gray, red, yellow, blue, green and purple tones.
 * The logo also featured the woman's head in a close-up, to the point where her head almost covers the entire screen. Her loose curls are also missing. On this link, you can see that Ozma wears black clothes, so that only her face is visible.
 * There has been a shorter version spotted where it just shows her looking around the screen for about 4 seconds. This variant is mostly at the end of the films.
 * If you look really closely on some of the B&W variants, you can actually see Ozma's body below her head, sometimes for a split second.
 * The Patchwork Girl of Oz close-up variant lasts only 2 seconds, due to skips through the logo, which is a result of the film deterioration.

FX/SFX: The woman moving her head and the fade-in effect.

Cheesy Factor: There is no text, so this barely qualifies as a logo. It is also very old, as evidenced by the scratchy prints. Music/Sounds: None (which raises the scare factor) or a custom opening/closing theme of the film. Availability: Ultra rare. Only four films produced by the company are known to survive, the rest having been decomposed or lost.

Scare Factor: Depends on the variant:
 * Original Version: Medium to nightmare. The rather cold, lifeless, thousand-yard stare of Vivian may freak some people out. The music that accompanies the logo or the silence may also add to the scare factor, along with the old film scratches.
 * Medium to high for the short variant. Vivian is still creepy, but this variant is only four seconds long.
 * Close-up Variant: High to nightmare. The "in-your-face" style of the logo is bound to scare many unsuspecting viewers that were expecting the normal variant, not to mention that this variant is usually silent.

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