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'''Logo:''' On a plain black background, a segmented white-lined rectangle with a cut on the left side and the text "RKO PICTURES" below emerges from the top of the screen, and moves down and curves up as if on a roller coaster, zooming up to the center of the screen. We also see a {{color | '''Logo:''' On a plain black background, a segmented, white-lined rectangle with a cut on the left side and the text "RKO PICTURES" below emerges from the top of the screen, and moves down and curves up as if on a roller coaster, zooming up to the center of the screen. We also see a {{color | ||
|red|red}} variant of the thunderbolt from the closing 1929 RKO Radio Pictures logo flipping up and growing in size as it lands below the cut on the rectangle in between "RKO" and "PICTURES." The text "DISTRIBUTED BY" appears above the logo. | |red|red}} variant of the thunderbolt from the closing 1929 RKO Radio Pictures logo flipping up and growing in size as it lands below the cut on the rectangle in between "RKO" and "PICTURES." The text "DISTRIBUTED BY" appears above the logo. | ||
'''Technique:''' | '''Technique:''' 2D animation. | ||
'''Music/Sounds:''' A three note synthesized tune with rising air and a thunderclap as the logo parts come together, followed by a gradual synthesized fade out. | '''Music/Sounds:''' A three-note synthesized tune with rising air and a thunderclap as the logo parts come together, followed by a gradual synthesized fade out. | ||
'''Availability:''' Rare. This logo was only used as a distribution logo on television and did not appear on any of the studio's film output. Appeared on 1980s syndie prints of ''What Price Hollywood'', ''None But the Lonely Heart'', ''Westward Passage'' and ''Nocturne'', among others; some of these prints air on TCM occasionally. Home media releases from [[RKO Home Video]] and [[The Nostalgia Merchant]] may include this logo at the end of such films as ''Citizen Kane'', ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' and ''Isle of the Dead''. Also appears on the 1986 [[VidAmerica]] VHS release of ''Suspicion'' and the 1990 [[Turner Home Entertainment]] VHS release of ''Bringing Up Baby'' (Turner actually reprinted some older RKO Home Video releases). It is unknown which Turner reprints (or any [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]] reprints) of RKO films have this logo. | '''Availability:''' Rare. This logo was only used as a distribution logo on television and did not appear on any of the studio's film output. Appeared on 1980s syndie prints of ''What Price Hollywood'', ''None But the Lonely Heart'', ''Westward Passage'' and ''Nocturne'', among others; some of these prints air on TCM occasionally. Home media releases from [[RKO Home Video]] and [[The Nostalgia Merchant]] may include this logo at the end of such films as ''Citizen Kane'', ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' and ''Isle of the Dead''. Also appears on the 1986 [[VidAmerica]] VHS release of ''Suspicion'' and the 1990 [[Turner Home Entertainment]] VHS release of ''Bringing Up Baby'' (Turner actually reprinted some older RKO Home Video releases). It is unknown which Turner reprints (or any [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]] reprints) of RKO films have this logo. | ||