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'''Music/Sounds:''' None or the film's opening theme.

* Evidence of it was seen on a Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary trailer on 1998 Warner videos. However, it appeared at the start of the film ''The Jazz Singer'' and was kept intact on the 75th Anniversary DVD as well as on the 1981 [[Magnetic Video Corporation|Magnetic Video]] release, where it's preceded by the [[United Artists]] "Transamerica T" logo.  

* This is retained on all extant silent-era Warner Bros. films shown on TCM, such as ''The Better 'Ole''.  

'''Music/Sounds:''' None or the opening theme of the film.

* It's preserved on any Warner Bros. film from this era, including pre-1999 video releases by [[Magnetic Video Corporation|Magnetic Video]], [[CBS/Fox Video]], [[Key Video]], and [[MGM/UA Home Entertainment|MGM/UA Home Video]].

* However, on the DVD version of ''G-Men'', it has usually been replaced with the 1948 shield logo, although this logo is kept at the end of ''G-Men''.

'''Music/Sounds:''' The opening theme of the movie.

* It's seen on films from the period and occasionally seen on TCM or preserved on Warner Archive DVD releases.  

* Its first known appearance is on ''Here Comes the Navy'' and made its final theatrical appearance on ''She Loved a Fireman''.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Usually the beginning of the movie's theme, or a majestic horn sounder composed by Max Steiner. On <u>at least three films (''To Have and Have Not'', ''Confidential Agent'' and ''Dark Passage'')</u>, a <u>different fanfare composed by Franz Waxman (known for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM logo fanfare]])</u> plays.

'''Legacy:''' This is perhaps the second most well-known version of the shield, having preceded classics such as <u>''Casablanca'', ''The Maltese Falcon'' and ''The Treasure of Sierra Madre''</u>, all starring Humphrey Bogart, who was <u>named the Greatest American Movie Star (Men's Category) by the American Film Institute in 1998</u>. This also marks the first appearance of the shield's iconic gold color.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' On ''New York Confidential'', the logo had a different fanfare, composed by Joseph Mullendore.

* Seen on prints of many Warner Bros. films on AMC and TCM and preserved on Warner Archive Collection or [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]] DVD releases.

* It has also been plastered onto the DVD version of ''G-Men''.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Again, the opening/closing theme of the movie's theme or silence.

* Can be found on movies such as ''Chisum'', ''Dirty Harry'', ''The Omega Man'', ''The Cowboys'', ''Billy Jack'', and ''THX-1138'', as well as the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of ''Death in Venice'' (where it was previously plastered by the 11th logo).

* This logo made its first appearance on ''Start the Revolution Without Me'' and made its final appearance on ''Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues''. ''What's Up, Doc?'', the next film WB released, instead uses the classic WB shield as an in-credit logo, and would be the first film to use the Warner Communications byline.

'''Music/Sounds:''' None, or in the case of ''The Man in the Wilderness'', the opening audio.

* Seen on ''The Man in the Wilderness'' and preserved on the Warner Archive Blu-ray.

* May have been seen on other films from this time period (it's confirmed to also be on a later Kinney-era film, possibly ''Snow Job''), but it's hard to say between Warner's rampant plastering habits and more common usage of the 7th logo.

'''Music/Sounds:''' None or the opening theme of the film, although ''Get to Know Your Rabbit'' uses a horn-driven theme with a flute mixed in towards the end.

* This was another placeholder logo only used on a few films to begin with, including ''Deliverance'', ''The Candidate'' and ''Super Fly''.

* However, due to Warner's plastering habits, this was subject to being replaced with either the next logo below or the 1984 shield logo and its later variations.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' Oddly, on Warner Archive's Blu-ray release of ''The Drowning Pool'', it has the second half of the 1999 fanfare playing due to a plastering error, using the 2001 prints.

* It premiered on ''The Train Robbers'' and made its final regular appearance on ''Lassiter'', subsequently appearing on ''Finders Keepers'' and ''Irreconcilable Differences'' (as seen on the [[Vestron Video]] release and the 2009 [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment|Lionsgate]] DVD, as it uses the same VHS master).

* Warner Bros.' editing bug in the '80s and early '90s meant that Warner Communications and Time Warner shield logos were seen over this logo and, ironically enough, that this did some plastering of its own back when it was the current logo, as seen on early WCI/Warner VHS and Betamax releases of ''The Green Berets'' (originally had the 6th logo) and ''The Candidate'' (originally had the 9th logo).

* On a Kabel 1 airing of ''It's Alive III: Island of the Alive'' (1987), the logo is accompanied by the 1985 Warner Home Video rendition of the Max Steiner fanfare due to another shoddy plastering job. Surprisingly, this logo fits better with that fanfare.

* This logo made its first appearance on the aforementioned ''Gremlins'' (released on June 8, 1984) and made its final regular appearance on ''True Crime'' (released on March 19, 1999). The closing version made its final appearance on ''Valentine'' (released on February 2, 2001).

* The Warner Communications byline version can be found on the 1997 DVD and the 2022 4K UHD Blu-ray releases of ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'' (1989) (the 2003 DVD release has the 1998 logo with the AOL Time Warner byline), current DVD and Blu-ray prints of ''The Dead Pool'', TCM prints of ''The Goodbye Girl'', and the Blu-ray release of ''Full Metal Jacket'' (1987).

* On ''Studio illegale'', one of the stereo audio tracks for the fanfare are missing, making the fanfare sound less powerful.

* It first debuted on ''Fallen'' and appeared on most of the company's films from this era until it was officially retired in 2020, with the final film to use this logo being ''Superintelligence''.

* The 75th Anniversary variant first appeared on ''Fallen'' and last appeared on ''You've Got Mail''.

'''Music/Sounds:''' The opening theme of the movie or none.

* It debuted on ''Tenet'' and later appeared on ''Wonder Woman 1984'' (as a variant).

* It also appeared at the opening of ''Gintama: THE FINAL / Gintama: THE VERY FINAL'' and the end of ''Cats and Dogs 3: Paws Unite!'' and ''A Cinderella Story: Starstruck''.