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'''Music/Sounds:''' Silent for most of the time; however, sometimes it uses the opening of the film.

*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.  

'''Music/Sounds:''' The film's opening theme.

*Only two films are known to contain this logo: ''I Married a Witch'' and ''The Crystal Ball''.

*This logo is preserved on the 2013 [[The Criterion Collection|Criterion Collection]] Blu-ray release and TCM airings of the former.

'''Music/Sounds Variants:''' On <u>American prints of the Italian James Bond spoof ''Operation Kid Brother''</u> (Original Italian title: ''O.K. Connery''), this logo plastered the original [[Titanus]] logo that started the picture, but maintained said logo's fanfare. UA likely extended the animation of their logo at the time to match the length of the Titanus fanfare.

*Until recently, this was bordering on near extinction due to chronic plastering and its short life span.

**It was allegedly first seen on ''You Only Live Twice'' (which used the {{color|blue}} TV tube variant on both sides of the pond).

*On the <u>2021 Kino Lorber Blu-Ray release of ''Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia''</u> (second pressing only, which uses Arrow's 2017 4k remaster), this logo uses the 2000 music from the 13th and 14th logos due to a sloppy reverse plaster (Arrow's 2017 UK Blu-Ray is silent as it should be). Oddly enough, the first pressing of the 2021 Kino Lorber Blu-Ray uses the older MGM HD master with the 2001 MGM URL variant and the 14th UA logo.

*Until recently, this logo was very hard to find due to rampant plastering by the means of MGM and later UA variants.

**This is presumably done because Transamerica Corporation still exists as a company (and was still using the "T-Flower" logo in the 1980s).

'''Music/Sounds:''' Usually silent.

*Was seen on the original American prints of ''Last Tango in Paris'' (however, the original Magnetic Video Corporation VHS and Betamax releases use the contemporary "Transamerica T"), ''Rancho Deluxe'', ''92 in the Shade'', ''Undercovers Hero'', ''Trackdown'', ''Drum'', and other sleaze films Transamerica wanted nothing to do with. While ''Vigilante Force'' is rated PG in the United States and even bears the T on print advertising, the final product uses this logo because it's just as sleazy as the R-rated films with this logo (and, indeed, got adults only ratings in other countries such as the UK and West Germany).

*Was seen on later Magnetic Video Corporation and most 20th Century-Fox Video VHS, Betamax and Laserdisc prints of ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''Rocky'', ''Dr. No'', ''Goldfinger'', ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', ''For Your Eyes Only'', ''White Lightning'', ''Now, Voyager'', ''The Return of a Man Called Horse'', and ''Rollerball'', among others.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' On the 2001 Special Edition DVD release of ''Rocky'', it uses the 1994 music, due to a reverse plastering error (the previous 1998 DVD release had the 1994 logo).

*The bylineless version can be found on the original 1976 film ''Carrie'' and is intact on modern releases of the film (which has no logical reason to be plastered).

*The rendition with the Transamerica byline is much harder to find due to plastering, and was seen during the rest of its short run. Its only original appearances in this form were on ''Champion of Death'' (AKA ''Karate Bullfighter''), ''Network'' (international prints only), ''Rocky'', and ''Bound for Glory''.

*The <u>still version</u> uses only the second half of the fanfare.

*Though this was used on theatrical releases, it was more prolific on video releases and cable during the 1980s.

**This logo was used primarily to update UA's catalog and provide a visual branding presence in the process, especially considering that most pre-Transamerica UA films did not have a logo at the beginning.

*On a <u>TCM UK airing of an unknown movie</u>, the 1995 MGM lion roar was heard due to sloppy plastering.

*Despite being subject to plastering with the 1994 and 2001 logos, it is still found easily on UA-released films of the period, such as ''Baby Boom'', ''Rain Man'', and ''Rocky V'' to name a few.

*This logo first appeared on the US release of ''The Living Daylights'', released on July 31, 1987, and made its final appearance on ''Son of the Pink Panther'', released on August 27, 1993.   

*The trailer's opening theme is heard for <u>the shorter and still versions</u>.

* Not as common as it once was when it was the chief means of plastering during most of the 1990s and some of the 2000s.

**In fact, it's believed to be how this logo first appeared, with the print logo appearing as early as the 1994 LaserDisc release of ''Midnight Cowboy'' and the logo itself debuting on the 1994 LaserDisc release of ''The Black Stallion''.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' On <u>some films</u>, it is silent or has the film's opening music playing over it.

* It was seen on United Artists' limited output of this time before it became an in-name only subsidiary of MGM.

* The only known theatrical releases to feature this logo are ''Crime and Punishment in Suburbia'' and ''The Claim''.

*On a <u>Amazon Prime France print of ''Rocky II''</u>, the theme is low pitched.

*It's seen on most films released by UA in their final years, including ''Jeepers Creepers'', ''Ghost World'', and ''Hot Tub Time Machine'' (the last MGM release with this logo).

*This logo has now become the standard for plastering the Transamerica and later logos on notable films such as the ''James Bond'' and ''Rocky'' franchises.