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'''Variants:'''

* On <u>trailers for films</u>, the logo is still and the Transamerica byline is in white. However, the original theatrical trailer for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' has the still version of the regular version, though the film itself has the variant from a full screen version print of ''Moonraker''.

* On <u>''Moonraker''</u>, the logo is still.

'''Technique:''' 2D animation.

'''Audio Variants:'''

* On <u>late 1970s reissue prints of ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''</u> (plastering over the 4th logo), this logo has the sound of race cars (leading into the opening scene of the film) playing over this logo.

* Until recently, this logo was very hard to find outside of old TV airings and select prints, 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.

**Most United Artists films of the time have had this logo edited over with newer logos or recent MGM logos, but it still occasionally appears on older prints.

*The original version is believed to have first appeared on ''Stay Hungry'', becoming UA's regular logo beginning with ''The Missouri Breaks'', and last appeared on ''Head Over Heels'' (the original version of ''Chilly Scenes of Winter'', which would be reissued in 1982 under the [[United Artists Classics]] banner), while the variant with the smaller byline first appeared on the 1978 rerelease of ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', taking over as the regular logo beginning with ''The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh'', and last appeared on ''Deadly Blessing''.

**It also makes an appearance on the trailer for ''The Last Wave'' on The Criterion Collection DVD release.

*This also makes a surprise reappearance on the 2010 Warner Home Video DVD and Blu-ray releases of Ralph Bakshi's ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978), though it is absent on all older releases.

*It was also presented intact on a June 15, 1995 Movie Channel (UK) airing of ''Roadie''; however the 1989 Wood Knapp Video VHS release of the film has a black screen in its place, and the 2003 DVD release and a non-US broadcast of the film plaster it with the 14th logo while keeping the opening sound effects and music intact.

*It is also preserved on trailers on the iTunes movie store.

*It also appears on the original [[Magnetic Video Corporation]] release of ''The Jazz Singer'', followed by the 1923 [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] logo.

*On James Bond films of this period, it originally appeared on ''The Spy Who Loved Me'', ''Moonraker'', and ''For Your Eyes Only''.

**However, it does not appear on the actual release prints of MGM films from the era with MGM's logo at that time being used to start the films.

**This logo was also recently seen on Grit network's airings of ''The Big Red One'', though it is absent on all other releases.

*It appeared on a late 1980s Cinemax airing of ''The End'' and an Italian Sky Cinema broadcast of ''The Missouri Breaks''.

*It is also intact on international prints of ''Buffalo Bill and the Indians (or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson)'', as [[StudioCanal]] owns overseas distribution rights as part of the catalog of producer Dino de Laurentiis.

*It also appears at the start of the Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray release of ''Motel Hell'' (1980), following the 2012 MGM logo.