Oz Film Company/Summary

Background : 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. Their films (all of which bombed commercially) feature various color tints and musical themes, like silent films traditionally do.

(1914-15)​​​

Nicknames : "Princess Ozma", "Oz Lady of Doom," "ВИD's Grandmother", "The Grandmother of All Nightmare Logos", "V for Vivian"

Logo : On a black background, we see a woman 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 actress Vivian Reed (1894-1989), who appeared in 36 silent 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.
 * The Patchwork Girl of Oz close-up variant lasts only 2 seconds, due to skips through the logo, which is a result of film deterioration.

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

Music/Sounds : None 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.