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'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. | '''Availability:''' Extremely rare. | ||
*Until recently, this was bordering on near extinction due to chronic plastering and its short life span. It was allegedly first seen on ''You Only Live Twice'' (which used the {{color|blue}} TV tube variant on both sides of the pond). | *Until recently, this was bordering on near extinction due to chronic plastering and its short life span. | ||
*Among the other films that originally featured this logo were ''Billion Dollar Brain'', ''Operation Kid Brother'' (American prints), ''Death Rides a Horse'' (American prints), ''The Party'', ''Kill a Dragon'', ''Danger Route'', ''Live for Life'', and ''Hang 'Em High''. | **It was allegedly first seen on ''You Only Live Twice'' (which used the {{color|blue}} TV tube variant on both sides of the pond). | ||
*The trailer variant is seen on the ''Clambake!'' trailer, but on the main feature (Region 2 and 4 | **It was also said to be seen on a Retroplex airing of the former. | ||
*The original U.S. theatrical run of ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' did not originally have this logo, as confirmed by the original 1967 continuity script which described the first reel as going straight to the title sequence from the leader (the absence thereof is preserved on the 1990 MGM/UA VHS and laser videodisc release). It does appear on the 2017 Kino Blu-ray release of ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' (after the 2012 MGM logo) as well as on the 2021 Blu- | *Among the other films that originally featured this logo were ''Billion Dollar Brain'', ''Operation Kid Brother'' (American prints), ''Death Rides a Horse'' (American prints), ''The Party'', ''Kill a Dragon'', ''Danger Route'', ''Live for Life'', and ''Hang 'Em High'', respectively. | ||
*The continuity script for ''In the Heat of the Night'' also confirms that the logo didn't originally appear on that film or its camera negative. However, it was attached to most 35mm US prints. | *The trailer variant is seen on the ''Clambake!'' trailer, but on the main feature (Region 2 and 4 DVD releases only), it has an odd United Artists/Ledy-Gardner-Laven productions in-credit logo instead. | ||
*The original U.S. theatrical run of ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' also did not originally have this logo, as confirmed by the original 1967 continuity script which described the first reel as going straight to the title sequence from the leader (the absence thereof is preserved on the 1990 MGM/UA VHS and laser videodisc release). | |||
**It does appear on the 2017 Kino Blu-ray release of ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' (after the 2012 MGM logo) as well as on the 2021 Blu-ray and 4k UHD. | |||
**It can also be seen on Kino's Blu-ray releases of ''A Fistful of Dollars'' and ''For a Few Dollars More''. | |||
*The continuity script for ''In the Heat of the Night'' also confirms that the logo didn't originally appear on that film or its camera negative. | |||
**However, it was attached to most 35mm US prints. | |||
*The {{color|blue}} rectangle variant is only known to have appeared on the aforementioned Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of the ''Dollars Trilogy''. | *The {{color|blue}} rectangle variant is only known to have appeared on the aforementioned Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of the ''Dollars Trilogy''. | ||
*The black background variant can be seen on some trailers of films, notably the trailer of ''The Party'' (1968). | *The black background variant can be seen on some trailers of films, notably the trailer of ''The Party'' (1968). | ||