Warner Bros. Pictures: Difference between revisions

* On earlier films, such as ''Here Comes the Navy'', ''Housewife'', and ''Dames'' (all 1934), the shield is seen on a plain backdrop. Also, the camera zooms towards the shield instead of vice versa.

* Sometimes, the words "WARNER BROS. PICTURES, Inc. {{font|Times New Roman|Present}}" appear over the shield.

'''Closing Title:''' On a special background, superimposed on the last scene of a movie or the cloud background of the opening logo, the words "The End" appear in a fancy script font, with either the WB or the FN logos and "Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.", or rarely "Warner Bros. Productions Corporation", or "First National Pictures, Inc." below. The disclaimer was later changed to either "A First National Picture" or "A Warner Bros. Picture", and the font for "The End" would change different times.

'''Audio:''' The opening theme of the movie.

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

* On colorized versions of black and white films such as ''The Maltese Falcon'' and ''Casablanca'', the logo has a {{color|blue}} background and a {{color|gold}} shield with a {{color|red}} interior.

** Some colorized films, such as ''The Big Sleep'' (1946), have the {{color|blue}} and {{color|red}} colors reversed, making the shield look very similar to the next logo.

'''Closing Title:''' Superimposed on a special background, or sometimes on the last scene of the movie, the large words "The End" (with the font varying depending on the movie) fade in, with a "WB" shield bug (which looks similar to the shield from the 3rd logo, albeit without the hyphen) and the text "A WARNER BROS. PICTURE" (with "WARNER BROS." usually in a scripted font). Sometimes, due to the deal between WB and First National Pictures, the disclaimer was changed to "A WARNER BROS.-FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE", or it was sometimes shortened to "A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE" with the WB shield bug intact.

* Sometimes, the banner reads "{{font|Times New Roman|'''WARNER BROS. PICTURES'''}} INC." like the previous logo, except the "INC." is very tiny and on the very right of the banner. This version can be seen on films such as ''The Prince and the Showgirl''.

* A German version exists where the "Presents" text is replaced with "zeigen", and a white version of the shield is superimposed over the opening scene of the film. Another German variant, which uses the 3D version, has "zeigen" chyroned over the "Presents" text.

'''Closing Titles:'''

'''Variants:'''

'''Closing title:''' After the words "The End" and the credits, the words "Distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts" are seen superimposed over the last scene of the movie or on a special background, with a W7 shield bug below.

'''Availability:''' 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.

* This logo is removed on the 2007 DVD/Blu-ray release of ''A Clockwork Orange'', but is preserved on the 2000 DVD release. It appears that the reason why this logo was plastered so often is because Kinney still existed as a company at the time, having spun off Warner Communications following a parking scandal, similar to what happened with United Artists and its Transamerica logos.

* The cheaper German shield version was found on an ARD airing of ''There Was A Crooked Man...'' from August 28, 1982.

** A B&W version of the closing "DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS" logo also exists, which appeared at the end of a January 12, 1993 airing of S01E08 of ''F Troop'' on Nick at Nite.

* An early version of this logo had a different font for the text as well. This version appeared at the beginning of some prints of ''The Shining''.

* An ITV overnight showing of the 1968 film ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' in early September 1996 had its original W7 logo at the beginning, but this logo, with "PRESENTS", oddly appeared at the end.

'''Technique:''' Motion-controlled cel animation. A still graphic for the closing variant.

* On ''Gremlins'' and ''Innerspace'', a rearrangement of the Max Steiner fanfare by Jerry Goldsmith (who composed both films) is used.

* On the Warner Archive DVD-R release of ''How Sweet It Is!'', the logo is accompanied by the National General fanfare (the original distributors of the film) as the result of a plastering error.

'''Availability:''' The 1992 version is usually the one that plasters older logos. Fortunately, WB has eased up on this somewhat, and older logos have been seen more often in recent years on newer prints/masters.

** However, the trailer, in-credit variant, and scenes feature this logo.

* Neither this nor the 2009 sky background version of the [[20th Century Studios]] logo appear on the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment 4K release of the Regency film ''Heat'', only the [[Regency Enterprises|Regency]] logo appears instead.

** However, it's not as easy to spot as the 1992 variant, as many DVD releases and Encore/Starz prints replace it with the Time Warner Entertainment byline variant, such as on the DVD release of ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'' or even with the next logo below (occurs on the ''Police Academy'' films and ''Moving'').

* Even the 1990 Time Warner byline variant has also been plastered with the next logo on most of Encore's prints of films released from 1990 to 1992, but it is still intact on the Blu-ray release of ''Goodfellas'', the 1999 DVD and 2017 Warner Archive Blu-ray releases of ''My Blue Heaven'', and the 2000 Director's Cut DVD release of ''Lethal Weapon 3''.

** One instance where this logo does some plastering of its own was on ''The Ballad of Cable Hogue'', where it plastered the Kinney Shield.

** It also makes an appearance on the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' version of ''Catalina Caper'', a [[Crown International Pictures|Crown International]] film (it appears to have been sourced from a television print from around 1987); it appears as Joel and the Bots are entering the theater.

'''Legacy:''' The logo is considered a throwback to 1948 shield inside and outside of the logo community. As for the 1992 variant, it is infamous for its large-scale plastering (similar to [[Sony Pictures Television]]), giving it the unofficial nicknames "Shield of Staleness" or "The Shield of Annoyance".

** December 12, 2003-August 24, 2018 (official Time Warner byline): When the byline was changed to "A {{font|Times New Roman|'''TimeWarner'''}} Company", the "{{font|Times New Roman|'''Distributed by'''}}" was updated to the custom Didot/Bodoni hybrid font with the URL in FF Meta. Also, starting with this version, the sky background is different, however some films such as ''TMNT'', ''It'', ''The LEGO Batman Movie'', ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'' and ''Ready Player One'' used the old sky background instead.

** July 22, 2018-March 31, 2022 (WarnerMedia byline): Once again, the text above and below the logo and the byline was changed in favor of the byline change to "A '''WARNER{{color|gray|MEDIA}}''' Company". Here, both "Distributed by" and the "www.warnerbros.com" URL are now in AT&T Aleck Sans typeface and in a thinner typeface. As with the opening variant, the shadow behind "'''{{color|gray|MEDIA}}'''" is absent.

* There's an alternate scope version with the shield being further zoomed out, much like the IMAX variant. This was spotted on ''We Are Marshall''.

* On ''Studio illegale'', the last few seconds of the opening logo is used instead.

* On ''Hearts in Atlantis'', as well as current prints of ''Stealing Home'' and ''Cookie'', and all PAL prints of films, the fanfare is slightly sped-up and high pitched (due to the former three using PAL prints). A double pitched variation also exists on PAL prints of the former three.

* The intro video of Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood has "As Time Goes By" from ''Casablanca'' (archival audio) transitioning into the 1998 fanfare, as soon as Sam (played by Dooley Wilson) sings the phrase "The fundamental things apply...".

* The Japanese live action movie, ''Gintama 2'', had the last spoken dialogue echoing at the start of the fanfare for the latter two showings, in which the logo is shown three times as a running gag during the start of the movie, as shown below.

* On a sizzle reel dating from the 2000s, the cymbal hits are removed, and the ending flourish also sounds a bit different.

** It also plasters previous logos on some 2001-2003 prints of older films.

* The prototype Time Warner byline first appeared on ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (as a variant) and last appeared on ''The Last Samurai''.

* The official Time Warner byline debuted on ''Something's Gotta Give'' (TV spots and trailers for the film use the prototype Time Warner byline instead), and made its last appearance at the end of the IMAX re-release of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' and on ''Bleach'', released on July 20, 2018 in Japan.

** Just like the AOL Time Warner version, this byline also plasters previous logos on post-2003 prints of pre-2003 films (in addition, also plastering the 75th Anniversary, Time Warner Entertainment, and AOL Time Warner versions of the same logo).

* It is also oddly seen on ''Creed II'', despite that film being produced by [[New Line Cinema]].

* This may or may not appear on Italian prints of [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]-distributed films.

* The closing variant of the 2003 Warner Bros. Pictures logo was also seen at the end of a December 23, 2022 affiliate KNBC airing of ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'' (1966), plastering the 1960 [[MGM Television]] logo.

'''Legacy:''' A favorite of many in the logo community thanks to its CGI and music.