The company was founded as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation on May 31, 1935, as a result of a merger between the film companies 20th Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation. The hyphen was dropped from the company name, effectively becoming 20th Century Fox after Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased the company in March 1985. In 1987, a redesigned logo replaced this on movie posters and other uses, but this was still used on VHS cases from Fox Video until 1994. The logo was…