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* 1942: The lady looks much like she did in 1936, only the flag becomes a plain red mantle (the Sony website implies that the change was to coincide with a new law that forbade the usage of the American flag as clothing), dark on the left shoulder but only the shadows of the folds differentiating the rest of it from the lady's white gown on her right side. The "COLUMBIA" lettering is also modified, still chiseled but less bold, and with darker shadowing.

* 1943-1952, 1953-1954: The logo is adapted for Technicolor. The pedestal is more visible now and the sky background is different.

* 1945, 1946?–1954: Similar to the Technicolor variant, but the "COLUMBIA" text is {{color|orange}}, and the clouds and lady are a bit different. This logo is adapted for Cinecolor, as well as the Technicolor process.

* July 17, 1953: The Columbia Lady's robe is redrawn with a plunging neckline. The logo is also adapted for widescreen.

* January 26, 1955: The logo is adapted for CinemaScope. The Torch Lady loses her slipper-clad foot peeking out from the bottom of her robe as it divides just above the pedestal. Also, the clouds behind the logo are more concentrated in the center and more billowy in shape.

* 1960-1968: Similar to the CinemaScope variant, but the clouds are {{color|blue}}.

* April 1968-December 12, 1973, April 5, 1974, August 1, 1976: The drapery is temporarily {{color|pink}} during this era. Several films that feature this variant include ''Where Angels Go'', ''Trouble Follows!'', ''The Swimmer'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Hammerhead'', ''Funny Girl'', ''The Wrecking Crew'', ''Otley'', ''Model Shop'', ''MacKenna's Gold'', ''Easy Rider'', ''Castle Keep'', ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'', ''The Desperados'', ''Cactus Flower'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''The Owl and the Pussycat'', ''The Reckoning'', ''10 Rillington Place'', ''The Anderson Tapes'', ''Dollars'' (''$''), ''The Horsemen'', ''Brian's Song'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra'', ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'', ''Butterflies Are Free'', ''Fat City'', ''The New Centurions'', ''Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different'', ''The Valachi Papers'', ''1776'', ''The National Health'', ''Lost Horizon'' (1973), ''The Way We Were'', ''Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'', ''The Last Detail'', ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', ''Tommy'', and Brian De Palma's ''Obsession''.

* On ''The King Steps Out'', the ''Three Stooges'' short "Disorder in the Court" and the 1936 western ''Stampede'', "PRESENTS" appears below.

* On ''The Three Stooges'' shorts from 1940-1945, the 1936 (or 1942) Torch Lady appears on the left side of ''The Three Stooges'' title card. On the steps are the words "COLUMBIA" on top, "SHORT SUBJECT" in the middle, and "PRESENTATION" on the bottom step.

* On the 1976 film ''Taxi Driver'', the logo is on a black background with {{color|blue}} clouds and has all of the text appearing at the same time.

* On some films or shorts subjects like ''The Three Stooges'', ''Buster Keaton'' or ''Charley Chase'', the logo is completely still, only the torch shining at the opening or at the end of the movie or shorts.

* On the 1948 ''Three Stooges'' short "Fuelin' Around", the 1968 logo in black & white iss seen at the beginning. Obviously, this plastered the Screen Gems logo on some TV prints, with/without the original music. This variant was seen on said short when reran on The Family Channel in the mid '90s.

* On 3D movies produced by the company, a 3D version of this logo was employed. The depth was as follows: the Torch Lady was closest to the screen, with "COLUMBIA" slightly behind her, and the cloud background farthest back.

* An ending variant was used on serials in the '30s and '40s. Along the bottom, it would read "A Columbia Serial" along the bottom. These were used on the Batman serials among others.

* Two ending variants existed for short subjects during the early '40s: (1) Near the top of the screen, "THE" is in a 3D-like Futura font with a white face and dark/light shadows to the left of the Torch Lady, and "END" in the same font and effects is to the right; the shadows from "THE END" go behind the Torch Lady to an unknown vanishing point behind the rays of her torch (much like the early-to-mid-60's [[Four Star Television]] logo's effect). Near the top of the Torch Lady's pedestal, "COLUMBIA" is in a small but wider version of the company name's "chiseled" font, and "SHORT" "SUBJECT" "PRESENTATION" is chiseled onto each step of the pedestal, going from top to bottom respectively (when seen on colorized prints of ''The Three Stooges'', "THE" "END" and "COLUMBIA" are in a {{color|yellow|yellowish}}-{{color|gold}} color, and the clouds and shadows are shades of {{color|darkblue|dark}} and {{color|lightblue|light blue}}, respectively); and (2) the standard "The End" additional text below would read "A Columbia Short Subject Presentation". These variants are usually seen on ''The Three Stooges'' shorts and often accompanies the aforementioned title card variant.

* An Italian version of the closing version was shown at the end of the Spanish Mexican film ''Él'' (aka ''This Strange Passion'' or ''Lui'').

* The last films to feature this logo were ''Taxi Driver'', ''Drive-In'', ''Harry and Walter Go to New York'', ''Obsession'' (at least on U.S. prints), and Peter Bogdanovich's ''Nickelodeon''.

* The 1973 variation was also seen on some later struck 16mm prints of some ''Three Stooges'' shorts, sometimes plastering the Screen Gems logo with the latter logo's music sometimes preserved, with ''Tricky Dicks'' and ''Three Pests in a Mess'' being common examples.

* ''Tommy'' originally featured the 1968-75 variation of the logo, but was plastered with the next logo below on all later prints and home video releases of the film. ''Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different'' suffered the same fate as ''Tommy'' on the video releases, but has been restored on the DVD releases.

* This was seen on early releases of the 1975 version of ''The Stepford Wives'', but when [[Viacom (1952-2006)|Viacom]] bought the rights to the film, along with the rest of the [[Palomar Pictures International|Palomar Pictures]] catalog in the mid-'80s, the logo was deleted. However, following the release of the 2004 remake, [[Paramount Pictures]] gained rights to the original film through Viacom (owner of the former company), and added their 2002 logo at the beginning of all current prints.

* This also appears on current prints of films that originally had the 2nd logo, including ''Dirigible'', ''Behind the Mask'', ''Shopworn'', ''The Circus Queen Murder'', ''Man's Castle'', ''Twentieth Century'', ''The Whole Town's Talking'', ''The Black Room'' (1935), and ''She Married Her Boss''.

* The "A Columbia Serial" variant can be seen on the old ''Batman'' serials when aired on TCM.

* The 3D version appears on the company's Golden Age 3D features, including ''Man in the Dark'', ''Miss Sadie Thompson'', and ''The Mad Magician''.

* The ''Three Stooges'' shorts that include the "Short Subject" variants will likely be retained, being followed by the [[Sony Pictures Television]] logo.

* While the 6th logo debuted in 1993, the classic 1955 CinemaScope variation without 2014 Sony byline makes a surprise appearance on ''The Interview'' (2014), while the classic 1968-1974 variation with Sony 1996 and 2014 bylines makes a surprise appearance on two Quentin Tarantino's hits: ''Django Unchained'' (2012) and ''Once Upon a Time In Hollywood'' (2019). The 1953 or 1955 variations with Sony 2014 byline also makes a surprise appearance on ''Vivo'' (2021) after the [[Netflix Originals|Netflix]] logo.