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'''Audio:''' 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.  

'''Audio:''' The film's opening theme.

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

*It should be noted that both films were produced by [[Paramount Pictures]] and were sold to United Artists for distribution.

'''Audio 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.

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

*It was also said to be seen on a Retroplex airing of the former.

*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).

'''Audio:''' 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.

* On <u>late 1970s reissue prints of ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''</u> (plastering over the 4th logo), this logo has the sound of race cars (leading into the opening scene of the film) playing over this logo.

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

**Nowadays, MGM sub-licenses its films to video labels that perform new scans and remasters and leave studio logos intact on the film unlike MGM themselves.

'''Audio 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.

**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.

*As examples, this can be found plastering older logos on the CBS/Fox releases of ''The Spy Who Loved Me'', ''The Black Stallion'', ''Rocky'', ''Thunderball'', ''You Only Live Twice'', ''Goldfinger'', ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (in B/W), and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', the [[Playhouse Video]] release of ''Apache'', the 1983 MGM/UA Home Video release of ''The Last Waltz'', the 1983 Warner Home Video rental-only VHS and Betamax releases of ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (it also appears on the 1985 CBS/Fox laserdisc), the RCA SelectaVision CED release of ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', and Amazon Prime Video's print of ''Heaven's Gate'' (the shorter theatrical cut).

'''Audio Variant:''' On <u>current prints of ''The Living Daylights'' (1987)</u>, the next logo's fanfare is used, possibly due to botched reverse plastering.

* When the movie was released in US and most other countries later on, it was replaced with the next logo instead.

* It is, however, intact on all modern releases of the aforementioned film.

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

*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.   

*It can also be found on the 1997 DVD release of ''The Black Stallion'', the MGM MOD DVD-R of ''Tomorrow Is Forever'', the 2001 MGM DVD releases of ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'', ''License to Kill'', and ''Child's Play'', TCM airings of ''Malta Story'' and ''Valdez Is Coming'', ThisTV airings of ''The World of Henry Orient'', ''Call Me Bwana'', ''The Barefoot Contessa'', ''Bound for Glory'' (with the 7th logo following it), ''Ten Seconds of Hell'', ''Support Your Local Sheriff!'', ''Trail of the Pink Panther'', ''True Love'', ''The Aviator'', and ''Heaven's Gate'' (the shorter general release cut) and Comet airings of ''The Man from Planet X'' and ''Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete''. This logo also appears on 2005 DVD release of ''Fatal Beauty'' (which was a 1987 MGM film, so this was most likely an editing error).

*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''.

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

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

* This logo is also seen on DVD releases of ''The Black Stallion Returns'', ''Juggernaut'', as well as the Twilight Time Blu-ray releases of ''The Dogs of War'', and ''Play Dirty''.

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

*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.

*It also appears on PBS's print of ''The Last Waltz''.