1968-1972[]
Nicknames: CCF, The Movie Projector
Logo: On a blue background, we see "CCF" being drawn in big black letters designed to represent an abstract movie projector. Then pink (sometimes red) dots appear with a line drawing around them, to look like the film running through the projector. A white line wiping and coming out of the "F" (the "projector lens") reveals the text "CINEMA CENTER FILMS", which then fades into "PRESENTS". The logo only appears once at the start of the film.
Variant: Sometimes (mainly on full-screen prints), the logo is in 4:3 "open matte" aspect ratio.
FX/SFX: "CCF" drawing, the pink dots appearing and the line drawing.
Music/Sounds:
- Usually silent, but sometimes has the beginning of the film's opening theme.
- On Me Natalie, it used a piano orchestration theme.
- On A Boy Named Charlie Brown, it used an instrumental jazzy arrangement of the "Champion Charlie Brown" theme from the film.
- On Scrooge, it uses a bell-sounding fanfare.
Availability: Uncommon as CCF only produced 30 films before closing in 1972. Usually saved on the films that used that logo, including Scrooge, Little Big Man, Blue Water, White Death and the first two theatrical Peanuts films A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy Come Home, the last film to use that logo. All home media releases of the studio's output preserve the logo.
Editor's Note: None.