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*Despite being around for a good 37 years, this logo was extremely difficult to find due to scarce use on certain films, as well as rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants. Now with MGM sub-licensing its films to video labels who are doing new scans and remasters, they usually leave the original studio card indents intact on their film scans unlike MGM themselves. In recent years, this logo has started to become far more common than it was over the last few decades. Internationally it first debuted in Sweden in ''Stockholmsutställningen 1930''. In the United States, this logo is believed to be first seen on ''The Bat Whispers''.

*As most releases only used a text notice, a few films have originally used this logo but were removed or updated with newer ones (or a MGM logo), thus making it an extremely hard find. However, it does appear on the Hopalong Cassidy film ''False Colors'', whenever CoziTV decides to rerun it.

*Noticeably, out of all the pre-1967 James Bond films, the only one where this appeared was ''Goldfinger'' (not fully confirmed). Among the other films that originally featured this logo were ''The Magnificent Seven'', ''West Side Story'' (at least on general release prints), ''One, Two, Three'', and The Beatles' films ''A Hard Day's Night'' and ''Help!''.

*This logo was also seen on international prints of some pre-1948 ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' shorts that they owned while plastering the Warner Bros. opening of the era. It has been preserved on ''Call Me Bwana'', ''Stranger on Horseback'', ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', ''Thunderbirds Are Go!'', ''Tomorrow, the World!'', ''Three Sundays to Live'', ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', ''The Happy Thieves'', ''The Fabulous Dorseys'', ''The Horse's Mouth'', and ''How I Won the War'' (an early Transamerica-era film that was intended to be released six months earlier than it actually was; possibly the last film to feature the hexagon, before Transamerica took over). It also appears on the Scream Factory Blu-ray of ''Doctor Blood's Coffin'', the Kino Lorber DVD and Blu-ray of ''10 Seconds to Hell'', and the Twilight Time Blu-ray and Vudu prints of ''Inserts'' (made in 1976, but it was rated X, so Transamerica didn't want its name nor insignia on the film, and since it was a period piece set in the '30s UA simply decided to use this logo as a stylistic choice in lieu of a textual notice), TCM airings of ''Tomorrow, the World!'' and ''Return from the Ashes'', and ThisTV airings of ''Gentlemen Marry Brunettes''.

*This was also seen on international prints of ''The Man with the Golden Arm'', in which it makes a surprise reappearance on an Australian TV airing and on the German Blu-ray. The MGM/UA VHS of ''Marty'' also preserves this, and it's been suggested that this even appeared on its original VHS and Betamax release, from CBS/Fox Video.

*On ''Topkapi'', the logo was small and in-credit at the bottom-right corner of the end credits, with the words "Released by" above it. The in-credit variant can also be seen on all the British-made films from London Productions that were distributed by UA, though it does not appear on the 1942 ''Jungle Book'' film.

*It does not show up in ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (1963), ''The Miracle Worker'', ''The Barefoot Contessa'', ''The Killing'', ''A Fistful of Dollars'', ''For a Few Dollars More'', ''Tom Jones'', ''The Pink Panther'', ''The Alamo'', ''Birdman of Alcatraz'', ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''.

*Very rarely, a video cassette or laser videodisc of these will preserve this logo's absence without also showing a later logo. This happens on the 1990 laser videodisc release of ''A Fistful of Dollars'', the 1981 Magnetic Video release of ''The Pink Panther'' (some prints just use the 1981 logo), the 2000 Western Classics VHS release of ''The Alamo'', and the 1990 VHS release of ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''.