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'''Trivia:''' | '''Trivia:''' | ||
*This was the result of a branding strategy of the Transamerica Corporation, unifying all their owned companies under the main company's logo. This included, among others: Transamerica Distribution Services, Transamerica Airlines, Liberty Records, Blue Note Records, and of course, United Artists and subsidiary United Artists Television. | *This was the result of a branding strategy of the Transamerica Corporation, unifying all their owned companies under the main company's logo. This included, among others: Transamerica Distribution Services, Transamerica Airlines, Liberty Records, Blue Note Records, and of course, United Artists and subsidiary United Artists Television. | ||
*This logo was animated at DePatie-Freleng, | *This logo was animated at DePatie-Freleng, whose animated shorts (''The Pink Panther'', ''The Inspector'', etc.) were released by UA. | ||
'''Variants:''' | '''Variants:''' | ||
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*On reissue trailers for some films a still version of this logo is used, only it says "Re-released thru" above the logo. | *On reissue trailers for some films a still version of this logo is used, only it says "Re-released thru" above the logo. | ||
*On some Scope films, such as ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'', ''The Organization'', ''The World of Hans Christian Andersen'', ''Fellini Satyricon'', ''Visit to a Chief's Son'', and ''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'', the logo is zoomed out further than usual. Other Scope films, including ''The Bridge at Remagen'', ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', and ''Fiddler on the Roof'', simply used the standard variant cropped heavily, and on Scope films that use the 1975 variant, the logo zooms out similar to the Scope variant of the 1984 Tri-Star Pictures logo. | *On some Scope films, such as ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'', ''The Organization'', ''The World of Hans Christian Andersen'', ''Fellini Satyricon'', ''Visit to a Chief's Son'', and ''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'', the logo is zoomed out further than usual. Other Scope films, including ''The Bridge at Remagen'', ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', and ''Fiddler on the Roof'', simply used the standard variant cropped heavily, and on Scope films that use the 1975 variant, the logo zooms out similar to the Scope variant of the 1984 Tri-Star Pictures logo. | ||
*On some full screen prints, including the RCA VideoDisc release of ''Fiddler on the Roof'', the logo is squeezed to fit the 4:3 aspect ratio. | *On some full screen prints, including the RCA VideoDisc release of ''Fiddler on the Roof'', the logo is squeezed to fit the 4:3 aspect ratio. On the cancelled VHD print of the film, the logo is cropped/zoomed in so that the "United Artists" text appears to be in the center of the screen, resulting in the "T" being cut off at the right side. | ||
'''FX/SFX:''' The stacking of the lines and the zooming out. | '''FX/SFX:''' The stacking of the lines and the zooming out. | ||
'''Music/Sounds:''' An ascending musical scale of 6 groovy bass guitar notes accompanying each of the 6 {{Font color|blue|blue}} lines, followed by a sharp drum roll, and concluded by a fanfare of horns and drums composed by Doug Goodwin, | '''Music/Sounds:''' An ascending musical scale of 6 groovy bass guitar notes accompanying each of the 6 {{Font color|blue|blue}} lines, followed by a sharp drum roll, and concluded by a fanfare of horns and drums composed by Doug Goodwin, a staff composer at DePatie-Freleng also known for writing the theme song for ''The Pink Panther Show''. | ||
'''Music/Sounds Variants:''' | '''Music/Sounds Variants:''' | ||