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'''Availability:''' Extremely rare due to scarce use on certain films.

*Despite being around for a good 37 years, this logo was extremely difficult to find due to due to scarce use on certain films as well as rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants. Now with MGM sub-licensing its films to video labels who are doing new scans and remasters, they usually leave the original studio card indents intact on their film scans unlike MGM themselves, so therefore this logo has started to become far more common than it was over the last few decades. It is believed to be first seen on ''The Bat Whispers''.

'''Availability:''' Rare outside of old TV airings and select prints.

*Until recently, this logo was very hard to find, due to rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants. Nowadays, MGM sub-licenses its films to video labels that perform new scans and remasters and leave studio logos intact on the film unlike MGM themselves. Therefore, this logo and its later variant have been making more reappearances than in the past few years. Most United Artists films of the time have had this logo edited over with newer logos or recent MGM logos, but it occasionally appears on older prints.

'''Availability:''' Scarce.

*This logo, which was prolific on video releases and cable during the 1980s, was used to update its catalog and provide a visual branding presence in the process, especially considering that most pre-Transamerica UA films did not have a logo at the beginning.

'''Availability:''' rare. It was seen on the initial theatrical prints of the James Bond movie ''The Living Daylights'', particularly the ones seen in Britain. When the movie was released in America and most international countries, it was replaced with the next logo. It is, however, restored on the DVD releases and remains intact on current prints of the film.

'''Availability:''' Fairly common, but not as common as it once was when it was the chief means of plastering during most of the 1990s and some of the 2000s. United Artists first unveiled this logo in 1994 on a trailer for ''Tank Girl'', with the full version premiering on the feature itself. This also plastered the MGM/UA Communications variant of the 10th logo on the original MGM DVD releases (as well as on select mid-1990s VHS reissues) of ''Child's Play'' and ''Rain Man''. Also seen on the 007 films ''GoldenEye'' and ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' and even appeared on a trailer of ''The World Is Not Enough'' (though the film itself used the MGM 75th anniversary logo). It is also preserved on older MGM tapes and DVDs (an example being ''12 Angry Men''). On Blu-ray, this appears on the Scream Factory release of ''The Rage: Carrie 2'', MGM's releases of ''The Birdcage'', ''Rob Roy'', the 2014 remastered release of ''Rocky'' (even appearing on the 2020 theatrical re-release), and ''Ronin'' (as well as on the 2017 Arrow Video remastered Blu-ray). Strangely, this logo appears on late '90s VHS releases of MGM produced titles such as ''Death Warrant'', ''Thelma and Louise'', ''Delirious'', ''Shattered'' (1991), and other early '90s MGM-Pathè films. Made a surprise appearance on ThisTV broadcasts of ''Separate Tables'' and ''Buffalo Bill and the Indians'' (the latter of which plasters over a Transamerica logo). This is also seen on the Region 4 DVD release of ''The Secret Of NIMH''.