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'''The Rank Organisation''' was founded in 1938 by producer Joseph Arthur '''Rank''' as "General Film Distributors". Rank, as a company, still exists today as The Rank Group plc., a hotel, resort, and casino operator. The Rank Group acquired all of The Rank Organisation's shares and company in 1995. The Rank film archive is now owned by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, a subsidiary of ITV plc., while the North American rights are held by either [[The Criterion Collection]] or [[Shout! Factory]] (previously, North American rights had been held by [[Embassy Home Entertainment]], [[Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Video]], and [[Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment]]). The films Rank merely distributed have gone to different owners.

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* When The Rank Organisation's film library was sold to [[Carlton Television (UK)|Carlton Television]] in 1997. Carlton originally deleted the logo from many of its prints (seeing as they have a nasty habit of removing/plastering logos), but now it is steadily reappearing on recently remastered TV prints and home video releases. Restoration and remastering of the Rank film archive continues under ITV Studios' ownership.

* Among the films containing this logo are well-known classics such as ''Henry V'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Red Shoes'', ''Ladykillers'', and ''The Ipcress File''.

* The 1980s distribution variant can be seen on international prints of ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and is retained on the 1999 VHS and 2000 DVD from [[Rhino Home Video]], alongside the 2000 UK VHS and DVD releases of the movie from [[Maverick Entertainment (UK)|Maverick Entertainment]] and the 4:3 print featured on the 2007 [[Metrodome Distribution (UK)|Metrodome Distribution]] DVD (Most later prints of the film, like the widescreen, remaster, do not have this, as they use North American prints of the film, which contains the 1986 [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]] logo but retains the gong sounds). It is also seen on recent UK DVDs and TV airings of ''Weekend At Bernie's'', and ''Strictly Ballroom'' all after the current [[Granada Films (UK)|Granada]] logo (the latter also appears on the U.S [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] Blu-ray).

* The 1970s variant can be seen on UK TV prints and the Network DVD of ''Short Circuit'' (again, after the [[Granada Films (UK)|Granada]] logo). This logo also recently turned up on an Australian airing of the 1949 film ''Eureka Stockade''. Also appeared on a U.S. streaming print of ''Gleaming the Cube'' on Amazon Prime Video. Though Rank distributed ''Reservoir Dogs'' in the UK, this did not appear at all on the film. The German variant was spotted on a May 22, 1982 [[ARD (Germany)|ARD]] airing of ''Fähre nach Hongkong (Ferry to Hong Kong).''

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