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'''Variant:''' A grayscaled variant exists on releases of some black-and-white films, such as ''Sunset Boulevard'' and ''Paper Moon''.

* This also appears on a late 1983 pressing of ''The Odd Couple'' and a 1984 printing of ''Harold and Maude'' (usually, releases printed around that time started with the "Acid Trip" warning screen, followed by the Paramount Pictures logo).

'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, the screen zooms out on a silhouette of a mountain. After the screen zooms out to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (they look like circles or lens flares) appear, as well as "'''''{{color|#ef8e00|{{font|Times New Roman|Paramount}}}}'''''" (in a {{color|#ef8e00|school bus yellow}} script, but closer to the pre-1975 logos). A {{color|#f4c430|saffron}}-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "'''HOME VIDEO'''" (set in the same font as the previous logo) zooms out soon after, tacked onto the {{color|#f4c430|saffron}}-colored trail. As that happens, the {{color|blue}} background gets extremely dark (resembling {{color|navy|federal blue}}). The end result is similar to the pre-1967 print logo.

'''Variant:''' On ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!'', the logo cuts to the last half of the film's Paramount logo.

'''Visuals:''' Over a black background is the abstract mountain logo, with "Paramount" in black script in the {{color|mediumblue|light blue}} circle like the other Paramount logos, and the "A Gulf + Western Company" byline at the bottom in {{color|mediumblue|light blue}}. It begins to zoom up on us, as the stars (which are followed by light trail-streaks) and byline zoom past, and both the mountain and circle grow bigger until we are literally right on top of the peak of the mountain, with "Paramount" centering in, filling the middle of the screen. When the peak hits the bottom and "Paramount" fits the center, "Paramount" begins to shine, then there is a very bright flash, and it dies down to reveal the Paramount script logo in {{color|blue}} and a small "VIDEO" shining a bit between two {{color|blue}} lines.

* A black-and-white variant exists.

* A rare, slightly longer variant exists, which starts with a still shot of the blue Paramount print logo. After a little over a second, the music starts and the logo animates as normal.

* At the end of an April 1998 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) airing of ''The Devonsville Terror'', the animation was slowed down but played as normal until all there was is "Paramount" and the mountain, when the logo freezed in place and the rest of the music was heard. It's unknown if this was used on any home media releases of the film, or any others. It's also possible that Sci-Fi Channel intentionally did this to hide any home video references.

'''Audio Variant:''' On the 1983 RCA CED videodisc release of ''An Evening with Robin Williams'', this follows the [[RCA SelectaVision]] logo, but is silent.

* This is a very infrequent logo, as most Paramount films used the logo used on the film, but most television series (such as ''Star Trek'', with the exception of the 1984 Television Classics LaserDisc release of the two-parter "The Menagerie", which uses no logo), comedy specials (such as ''Paramount Comedy Theater: Volume 1'' and ''Eddie Murphy: Delirious''), and licensed material (such as ''Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'' and ''The Adventures of the American Rabbit'') have this logo.

* This was also surprisingly seen on the early 1990s re-release of ''Strong Kids, Safe Kids'', after the 5th logo.