The MGM sourced version of Look Back in Anger, starts and ends noticeably abruptly because the credits and soundtrack have been slightly snipped, in order to remove the opening and closing Warner Bros logo. Whilst I understand that sometimes it is necessary to change or remove logos because an asset has changed hands in the corporate world, they’d rather mutilate the film than let the audience see that it was originally distributed by a different studio? Absolutely insane!
Another aspect of this Orwellian revisionism, is that the history of mass media, especially with regards to consolidation and vertical integration, has in turn, been erased from the audience’s awareness. For example, during the 80s, I remember watching programming by Columbia Pictures Television that featured the following as their end title logo:
At the time, as a child, it was interesting to see that Coca Cola owned a major media organisation but todays audience can’t make that casual observation because Sony have gone through much of the CPT back catalogue and retroactively altered the logos to this now very familiar sight:
