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''' | '''Visuals:''' On a background that looks like a forest, a large, bizarrely shaped shield is seen with a very wide top. The top part of the shield shows a picture of the original Warner studio in Hollywood, CA (now known as "Sunset Bronson Studios"), the bottom having a squashed, stylized "WB". "{{font|Times New Roman|a WARNER BROTHERS}}" is above the shield (with "{{font|Times New Roman|WARNER BROTHERS}}" in an arc around the shield, a la the first [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] logo), with "{{font|Times New Roman|CLASSIC ''of the'' SCREEN}}" below. Starting in 1926 or so, it changed to "{{font|Times New Roman|PRODUCTION}}". | ||
'''Closing Titles:''' There are two closing titles for this WB era: | '''Closing Titles:''' There are two closing titles for this WB era: | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' The words "WARNER BROS. PICTURES, Inc." appear, and "''& THE '''VITAPHONE''' CORP.''" appears below in a much smaller font, with the "VITAPHONE" in "electric" style letters. Below is a very small WB shield (using the stylized WB seen in the 1st logo), and in script, "{{font|Times New Roman|Present}}". Behind it we see a drawing of a flag "waving" so it looks like it is in three sections: on the first, "WARNER BROS." appears, followed by the electric-letter "VITAPHONE" logo and "PICTURES". | ||
'''Trivia:''' [[First National Pictures|The First National Company]] also used this logo, but with the words "FIRST NATIONAL" instead of "WARNER BROS. PICTURES". Also, on some features, only a large banner saying "VITAPHONE" was shown, omitting the First National or the Warner Bros. logo. | '''Trivia:''' [[First National Pictures|The First National Company]] also used this logo, but with the words "FIRST NATIONAL" instead of "WARNER BROS. PICTURES". Also, on some features, only a large banner saying "VITAPHONE" was shown, omitting the First National or the Warner Bros. logo. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' Over a cumulonimbus cloud setting, a superimposed WB shield design zooms in to the screen. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' Inside a shield, a more realistic version of the stylized "WB" from the previous logo appears. Over the shield is a banner that reads "'''WARNER BROS. PICTURES, INC.'''" Below the logo is the word "{{font|Times New Roman|''Presents''}}" in script. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' Same as before, but the design has been cleaned up a bit. The border of the shield, banner, text, and "WB" are now {{color|gold}}, and the inside of the shield is now {{color|blue}}. The banner phrase is now changed to "{{font|Times New Roman|'''WARNER BROS. PICTURES'''}}" and is now {{color|gold}}. "{{font|Times New Roman|''Presents''}}", in the same font as the previous logo, usually appears below. Also, the background is now a cloud skyline (much like the logos of 1984 on). For the later years, this logo was usually superimposed onto the titles of Warner features of this period. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' Just a superimposed, stylized shield which can be white, {{color|gold|yellow}} or {{color|red}}. The shield features a combination of a "'''W'''" and a "'''7'''", representing Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. The "'''W7'''" is often drawn on-screen, a la the NBC Snake, although it's a still logo on a few films. Below the shield, "{{font|Impact|WARNER BROS.-SEVEN ARTS}}" is seen. The word "Presents" usually appears under the shield. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, we see an abstract shield (akin to those seen on posters for 1960s Warner Bros. films) in a {{color|gold|golden}} color with a {{color|saddlebrown|dark brownish}} color inside. The word "WB" (this time not stylized) is at the upper part, and a rectangle in the same colors is at the lower part of the shield with the Kinney byline inside. The word "{{color|orange|PRESENTS}}" appears underneath the logo. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' On a background similar to the last logo, a bannerless WB shield is seen, with the design closer resembling the classic WB shield. "{{color|orange|'''A KINNEY LEISURE SERVICE'''}}" is seen below. | ||
'''Trivia:''' This logo is based on the print logo that Warner used during the Kinney era. | '''Trivia:''' This logo is based on the print logo that Warner used during the Kinney era. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' The standard WB shield logo, without the banner, appears on a {{color|blue}} background with "{{color|orange|A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY}}" underneath. "{{color|orange|''Presents''}}" in script may appear below. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' On a black background, an abstract "{{color|red|'''W'''}}", consisting of two slanted elongated circles and a shorter elongated circle, zooms towards us. Around halfway through, the words "'''WARNER BROS'''" (in the Warner Communications custom typeface, which resembles Saul Bass' earlier typeface, "Handel Gothic") appear below it. The {{color|red}} logo overtakes the screen as a smaller white "W" zooms in. It stops at the middle of the screen and a black square field, whose corners have been rounded and softened, fades in around the logo. "A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY", in the same font as "WARNER BROS", fades in below. Most of the time, "PRESENTS" also fades in below (in Helvetica). | ||
'''Trivia:''' The "Big W" was designed by Saul Bass, who also designed the [[Geffen Pictures]] "G" logo. The "Worms" nickname is attributed to an audio commentary for the film ''Gremlins'', which brought back the shield logo. The \\' logo was seen in several other shapes like a circle and a parallelogram, but these prototypes were scrapped. Although this logo has since been retired by the studio, it is still used by the now-unrelated Warner Music Group (formerly owned by Time Warner). | '''Trivia:''' The "Big W" was designed by Saul Bass, who also designed the [[Geffen Pictures]] "G" logo. The "Worms" nickname is attributed to an audio commentary for the film ''Gremlins'', which brought back the shield logo. The \\' logo was seen in several other shapes like a circle and a parallelogram, but these prototypes were scrapped. Although this logo has since been retired by the studio, it is still used by the now-unrelated Warner Music Group (formerly owned by Time Warner). | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' Over a set of clouds (the same set used in the 1953 variant of the 5th logo), the WB shield appears (including the banner reading "{{font|Times New Roman|'''WARNER BROS. PICTURES'''}}"), with the byline of the owner at the bottom. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' A picture of the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank is seen with a {{color|gold}} tint, and ripples slowly (a la the [[DreamWorks Pictures]] logo) before rotating to reveal itself as the WB shield over the quintessential cloud background, both of which are now redone in CGI. The shield continues to rotate as it zooms out to its usual position, with the company byline fading in underneath. | ||
'''Trivia:''' If one pauses right before the transition from the backlot image to the shield animation, some posters can be seen on the studio wall, including those for ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', ''Friends'', and ''Space Jam'', dating the photograph to somewhere between mid-1996 and early 1997. | '''Trivia:''' If one pauses right before the transition from the backlot image to the shield animation, some posters can be seen on the studio wall, including those for ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', ''Friends'', and ''Space Jam'', dating the photograph to somewhere between mid-1996 and early 1997. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' It starts the same way as the previous logo, then we see the new 2019 Warner Bros. shield without a banner swing in fully upright from the left of screen against the same cloudy sky background as the previous logo. The "WB" text reflects various other clouds. As the shield zooms out into position, the sky background fades to black and the 2019 WarnerMedia byline now reading "a '''Warner'''Media company" in a modified AT&T Aleck Sans font fades in below. The shield shines throughout. | ||
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''' | '''Visuals:''' It starts off similarly to the last two logos, but this time, instead of a simple rippling image, the camera pans across a photorealistic CGI rendering of the Warner Bros. Studios backlot (which has the numbers on the sound stages and a red carpet outside the Steven J. Ross Theater), with the camera then moving to the left past the iconic water tower (displaying the "dimensional" version of the 2019 WB shield and "WARNER BROS. STUDIOS" in three rows on it, in the new corporate font, Warner Bros. Sans, based on the shield's lettering, with "WARNER BROS." in its condensed bold version and "STUDIOS" in its heavy version) as it takes center stage, a la the [[Searchlight Pictures]] logo. After a few seconds, it continues the same way the previous two logos did, with the same 2019 WB shield from the previous logo (now brighter and more realistic) rotating as it zooms out like the 12th logo (with the letters and shield outline starting off in {{color|gold}} when it zooms out, a homage to its previous {{color|gold}} color, before subtly changing to the new {{color|silver|platinum silver}}), revealing a more realistic, detailed cloud background. The byline then fades in below as the shield shines. | ||
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