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'''Availability:''' Seen on releases from the company from the time-period right up until 1997. | '''Availability:''' Seen on releases from the company from the time-period right up until 1997. | ||
* When The Rank Organisation's film library was sold to [[Carlton Television]] in 1997, Carlton originally deleted the logo from many of its prints and | * When The Rank Organisation's film library was sold to [[Carlton Television]] in 1997, Carlton originally deleted the logo from many of its prints and replaced it with the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo, in keeping with that company's nasty habit of removing/plastering logos. However, after Carlton merged with the [[Granada Media Group]] to form ITV plc, this has since become less common with ITV's restoration and remastering of the Rank film archive keeping the logos intact. | ||
** Films that have not yet been restored by ITV, such as ''The Naked Truth'' (1957) and ''The Plank'' (1967), still have the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo. | ** Films that have not yet been restored by ITV, such as ''The Naked Truth'' (1957) and ''The Plank'' (1967), still have the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo. | ||
** The B&W variant of the original version of this logo is also intact at the beginning of a Screenpix print of ''All Night Long'' (1962), following the 2012 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] and 1999 Carlton International logos. | ** The B&W variant of the original version of this logo is also intact at the beginning of a Screenpix print of ''All Night Long'' (1962), following the 2012 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] and 1999 Carlton International logos. | ||