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*Until recently, this logo was very hard to find due to rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants. This is presumably done because Transamerica Corporation still exists as a company (and was still using the "T-Flower" logo in the 1980s). Nowadays, MGM licenses its films to various video labels that perform new scans and remasters and are more likely to leave studio logos intact on the film than MGM themselves. So thus, this logo has started to become much more common than it was during the last 10 years. | *Until recently, this logo was very hard to find due to rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants. This is presumably done because Transamerica Corporation still exists as a company (and was still using the "T-Flower" logo in the 1980s). Nowadays, MGM licenses its films to various video labels that perform new scans and remasters and are more likely to leave studio logos intact on the film than MGM themselves. So thus, this logo has started to become much more common than it was during the last 10 years. | ||
*The logo was allegedly first seen on ''The Thomas Crown Affair''. The original variant's last regular appearance was on the ''Dogfather'' cartoon ''Medicur'', released in 1976; its last appearance on a feature film was ''That's the Way of the World''. The 1975 variant first appeared on ''Brannigan'' and was last seen on ''Breakheart Pass''. | *The logo was allegedly first seen on ''The Thomas Crown Affair''. The original variant's last regular appearance was on the ''Dogfather'' cartoon ''Medicur'', released in 1976; its last appearance on a feature film was ''That's the Way of the World''. The 1975 variant first appeared on ''Brannigan'' and was last seen on ''Breakheart Pass''. | ||
*Most adult offerings (either X or a hard R) from United Artists instead opened with a textual notice due to Transamerica wanting nothing to do with them. The only X-rated film to use this, or any other Transamerica T logo, was ''Midnight Cowboy'', which temporarily had a self-applied X rating because of internal concerns that the MPAA was too lenient in rating it R; the original R rating would finally be accepted soon after its commercial success saw it win the Best Picture Oscar in 1970. | |||
*However, this logo (mainly the first variation) can currently be seen on the DVDs and TCM's prints of ''Cotton Comes to Harlem'' (original MGM DVD release only), ''Alice's Restaurant'', ''Cops and Robbers'', ''Sam Whiskey'', ''Jennifer on My Mind'', ''The Honkers'', ''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'' (Region 2 DVDs only), and ''Jeremy'', all after either the 2001 MGM logo or 1994 logos. | *However, this logo (mainly the first variation) can currently be seen on the DVDs and TCM's prints of ''Cotton Comes to Harlem'' (original MGM DVD release only), ''Alice's Restaurant'', ''Cops and Robbers'', ''Sam Whiskey'', ''Jennifer on My Mind'', ''The Honkers'', ''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'' (Region 2 DVDs only), and ''Jeremy'', all after either the 2001 MGM logo or 1994 logos. | ||
*It was also prolific on Magnetic Video releases of United Artists films from the early 1980's, such as the pre-Transamerica films ''The Barefoot Contessa'', ''West Side Story'', and ''Tom Jones'', the American print of ''Last Tango in Paris'' (plastering the textual notice at the start), and the extremely rare release of ''Let It Be''. | *It was also prolific on Magnetic Video releases of United Artists films from the early 1980's, such as the pre-Transamerica films ''The Barefoot Contessa'', ''West Side Story'', and ''Tom Jones'', the American print of ''Last Tango in Paris'' (plastering the textual notice at the start), and the extremely rare release of ''Let It Be''. | ||