Warner Bros. Pictures: Difference between revisions

* For colorized releases, mainly ''Captain Blood'', the cloud background is {{color|blue}} and the shield is {{color|gold|yellow}}.

* On color releases, the shield is {{color|tan|bronze}} and the background is red.

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

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

'''Visuals:''' Same as before, but the design has been cleaned up a bit. The border of the shield, banner, text, and "WB" are now gold, and the inside of the shield is now {{color|blue}}. The text on the banner has been shortened to "{{font|Times New Roman|'''WARNER BROS. PICTURES'''}}" and changed to a serif font. The scripted word "{{font|Times New Roman|''Presents''}}", in the same font as the previous logo, usually appears below the shield. Also, the background has been changed to a set of clouds (much like the logos from 1984 on). For its later years, this logo was usually superimposed onto the opening scene of the film.

* A {{color|tan|sepia}}-toned variant of this logo can be found on ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' and ''Bonnie and Clyde''.

'''Visuals:''' A simpler shield with only the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts logo (a monogram of the letter "'''W'''" and the letter "'''7'''") appears superimposed over the opening scene of the movie, usually in white but sometimes in {{color|gold|yellow}} or red, with the text "{{font|Impact|WARNER BROS.-SEVEN ARTS}}" below it. The "'''W7'''" is usually animated onscreen a la the NBC snake (although some films use a still variation), and the word "Presents" normally appears below the "WARNER BROS.-SEVEN ARTS" text .

'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, an abstract, golden shield (akin to the one used on posters for 1950s and 1960s Warner Bros. films) with a {{color|saddlebrown|dark brownish}} interior is shown. The word "WB" (this time not stylized) takes up the upper portion of the shield, and a rectangle in the same colors appears on top of the bottom portion, with the Kinney byline inside. The word "{{color|orange|PRESENTS}}" normally appears underneath the logo.

* February 4, 1970-June 25, 1971: "{{color|orange|A KINNEY NATIONAL COMPANY}}"

* April 8-May 1, 1971: "{{color|orange|A KINNEY SERVICES COMPANY}}"

* June 17-September 30, 1971: "{{color|orange|A KINNEY LEISURE SERVICE}}"

* December 19, 1971-February 25, 1972: "{{color|orange|A KINNEY COMPANY}}"

'''Visuals:''' On a background similar to the last logo, a bannerless WB shield is seen, with the design closer resembling the classic WB shield. Either "{{color|orange|'''A KINNEY LEISURE SERVICE'''}}" (November 24, 1971-January 12, 1972) or "{{color|orange|'''A KINNEY COMPANY'''}}" is seen below.

'''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.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, an abstract "{{color|red|'''W'''}}", consisting of two slanted elongated circles and a shorter elongated circle, zooms towards the camera. Around halfway through, the words "'''WARNER BROS'''" (in a modified version of Handel Gothic) appear below it as it zooms in. The red "W" overtakes the screen as a smaller white "W" zooms in. It stops in the middle of the screen, and a rounded black square fades in around the "W". The byline "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).

* On ''Exorcist II: The Heretic'', there is a still image of a black "W" inside a red square field, with "{{color|red|WARNER BROS, A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY}}" below.

* July 22, 2018-November 26, 2020, March 31, 2022: "A '''WARNER{{color|gray|'''MEDIA'''}}''' Company", with "'''WARNER{{color|gray|'''MEDIA'''}}'''" in its own logo font, called AT&T Aleck Sans Bold, while the rest of the byline is in the standard variation of the same font. The shadow behind "'''{{color|gray|MEDIA}}'''" is also absent.

* A somewhat enhanced WB shield can be seen on ''NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience'', ''Clash of the Titans'', ''Deep Sea 3D'', ''Under the Sea 3D'', ''Hubble 3D'', ''Born to Be Wild 3D'', and 3D international releases of ''Beowulf''. The animation revealing the shield is quicker, the flash reflection on the banner when the shield is revealed is not as bright, the lens flare are different, the inside of the shield is a {{color|dodgerblue|brighter blue}}, the banner around the shield is shinier, the cloud background is further back, and the shield zooms out further more. This version was most likely made to accommodate primarily the 3D and 15/70 IMAX formats.

* Starting with ''Dolphin Tale'' in 2011, the logo has been enhanced. The shield is sleeker, the banner is shinier, the byline is orange-{{color|gold|yellow}}, and the animation revealing the shield has more detail. Some films like ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ''Gangster Squad'' and most foreign films released by the company at the time used the 2003 version, with the last film overall using that version being the Chinese film ''Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal'', released in 2015. The shield rotating was reanimated as the rippling animation is zoomed in. In the scope version, it's zoomed in even more.

** July 22, 2018-March 31, 2022 (WarnerMedia byline): Both "Distributed by" and the "www.warnerbros.com" URL are now in AT&T Aleck Sans typeface and in a drastically thinner typeface. As with the opening variant, the shadow behind "'''{{color|gray|MEDIA}}'''" is absent.

* February 12, 1999-November 26, 2020: An 8-note piano tune that builds into a powerful, moving fanfare, based on the theme from ''Casablanca'', "As Time Goes By", originally written by Herman Hupfeld (originally used in the Broadway musical ''Everybody's Welcome''). It is a shortened version of an instrumental of "As Time Goes By" that appeared in a Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary promo that had been shown theatrically a year earlier. The fanfare made its debut in ''Message in a Bottle''. The fanfare uses "Crescendo Finale" from Peter Siedlaczek's Orchestral Colors, and maybe an unknown cymbal sample (probably SampleCell II or Big Fish Audio Prosonus).

'''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 (with details such as numbers on the sound stages, the WB logo on Stage 16, 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 Warner Bros. Sans font, based on the shield's lettering) as it takes center stage, similar to 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 gold when it zooms out, a homage to its previous gold color, before subtly changing to {{color|silver|platinum silver}}), revealing a more realistic, detailed cloud background. The byline then fades in below as the shield shines.