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In 1988, Greater Union ditched their "Star Tunnel" intro and was attempting to revive their GU symbol, however, it | In 1988, Greater Union ditched their "Star Tunnel" intro and was attempting to revive their GU symbol, however, it didn't last long. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:02, 19 January 2024
"Greater Union Cinemas" was a Australian cinema chain that existed from at least 1931 to 2009 when it was rebranded to Event Cinemas. However, it had some lost intros and preview bumpers at the time. The following list is to keep track of these following material.
List
1976-1982
Made around the same time as GUO Film Distributors' on-screen logo, this was also shown on TV spots of movies.
1982-1988
The full intro and preview bumpers are lost, while their bumper for their distribution arm is found recently, which was made around the time. According to freiburgdl405 on Youtube, there are also preview bumpers for the cinema chain, which is mostly the film distribution bumper except with "Now Showing" or "Coming Soon" shown instead under the Greater Union logo at the time, though existence has yet to be confirmed.
1988-1991
In 1988, Greater Union ditched their "Star Tunnel" intro and was attempting to revive their GU symbol, however, it didn't last long.
1991-1993
Later in 1991, Greater Union changed its logo yet again, this time, it ditched their redesigned GU symbol at the time, this was a prototypical version of the 1993 logo at the time.
1993-early 2000s?
Early 2000s-2003
Around the 2000s, Greater Union revamped it's "That's what I want" campaign, What they used to do as a feature presentation type thing was play this theme to the current season's movies at the time and when they got to the end bit they actually spliced in clips of the characters saying "That's What I Want" (usually four different movies for each word), Footage or evidence to this intro is lost.
2003-2005
In 2003, Greater Union changed its bumper to a more space-type themed intro.
2005-2009
Greater Union changed its logo again around 2005, it was their last bumper before rebranding to Event Cinemas.