"In 1933, he entered the Fox matte department under Fred Sersen's supervision. Although he started receiving credit only in 1958, Emil Kosa Jr. was a matte artist at 20th Century-Fox for thirty-five years and was responsible for the painting of the famous 20th Century-Fox “searchlight” logo, a variation of which was originally done by Kosa in 1933 for 20th Century Pictures before they merged with Fox Film Corporation in 1935.With the introduction of CinemaScope the logo was altered, also by Kosa and was used until 1981." http://bigerboat.com/indexfx/?p=737