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* May appear at the end of some syndicated movie telecasts, such as ''The Cartier Affair''. | * May appear at the end of some syndicated movie telecasts, such as ''The Cartier Affair''. | ||
* It also | * It is also seen on some prints of ''An American Werewolf in London'', although other prints of that film use the [[Hearst Entertainment]] logo instead, with the KF music preserved. | ||
* This can also be found on DVD releases of ''The Toughest Man in the World'' and ''High School USA''. | * This can also be found on DVD releases of ''The Toughest Man in the World'' and ''High School USA''. | ||
* This logo also made a surprise appearance on the 1988 TV movie ''Going to the Chapel''. | * This logo also made a surprise appearance on the 1988 TV movie ''Going to the Chapel''. | ||
* It can also be seen at the end of the ''Blondie'' films on the Movies! network and Amazon Prime such as ''Footlight Glamour'' (1943). | * It can also be seen at the end of the ''Blondie'' films on the Movies! network and Amazon Prime such as ''Footlight Glamour'' (1943). | ||
* This logo also | * This logo is also preserved on GREAT! Movies Classic airings of ''The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper'' and ''An American Werewolf in London'' as they use old 4:3 SD masters. | ||
* This logo does not appear at the end of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' DVD releases or Tubi prints, as it's been plastered over with the | * This logo does not appear at the end of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' DVD releases or Tubi prints, as it's been plastered over with the 3rd logo below instead. | ||
===2nd Logo (1982)=== | ===2nd Logo (1982)=== | ||
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'''Visuals:''' * On a {{color|blue}} background, the King Features crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. The crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line-up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro. | '''Visuals:''' * On a {{color|blue}} background, the King Features crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. The crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line-up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro. | ||
'''Audio:''' The sailors' hornpipe, as | '''Audio:''' The sailors' hornpipe, as heard in the intro to the classic Popeye cartoons. | ||
'''Availability:''' This was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS {{AvailabilityExamples}} | '''Availability:''' This was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS. {{AvailabilityExamples}} | ||
===3rd Logo (1985-1990)=== | ===3rd Logo (1985-1990)=== | ||
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* Sometimes, the logo is still. | * Sometimes, the logo is still. | ||
* A warp speed variant exists. | * A warp speed variant exists. | ||
* A slightly longer version also exists where the words slowly fade in. | * A slightly longer version also exists, where the words slowly fade in. | ||
* On <u>the 1989 ''Beetle Bailey'' special</u>, the finished logo zooms in to fill the screen. Copyright stamps for King Features Entertainment and King Features Syndicate can be seen. | * On <u>the 1989 ''Beetle Bailey'' special</u>, the finished logo zooms in to fill the screen. Copyright stamps for King Features Entertainment and King Features Syndicate can be seen. | ||
* On <u>the ''Blondie & Dagwood'' special from 1987</u>, the variant above is plastered onto a black/{{color|blue}} gradient background with a very noticable black outline. | * On <u>the ''Blondie & Dagwood'' special from 1987</u>, the variant above is plastered onto a black/{{color|blue}} gradient background with a very noticable black outline. | ||
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* The still variant has the last few seconds of the logo's theme playing. | * The still variant has the last few seconds of the logo's theme playing. | ||
* The warp speed variant has the logo's theme doubled in speed. | * The warp speed variant has the logo's theme doubled in speed. | ||
* | * High tone and low tone variants of the logo's theme both also exist. | ||
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* | * Seen on old VHS releases of ''Popeye'' and ''Krazy Kat'', as well as the 1970s Filmation version of ''Flash Gordon'', among other classic KFS cartoons. | ||
* This logo also | * This logo was also seen without music on Cartoon Network reruns of ''G-Force'' in the late 1990s. | ||
* Early 90s reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' and ''Popeye and Son'' on the Family Channel (currently Freeform) also had this following both the 1974 [[Hanna-Barbera]] logo and the 1979 "Swirling Star" for the former (on this show, it was also sped up thanks to time compression), and the 1986 H-B logo for the latter. | * Early 90s reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' and ''Popeye and Son'' on the Family Channel (currently Freeform) also had this following both the 1974 [[Hanna-Barbera]] logo and the 1979 "Swirling Star" for the former (on this show, it was also sped up thanks to time compression), and the 1986 H-B "CGI Swirling Star" logo for the latter. | ||
** However, Tubi prints of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' (referred to as ''The Continuing Adventures of Popeye'') have this logo and the Hanna-Barbera logos play normally. | ** However, Tubi prints of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' (referred to as ''The Continuing Adventures of Popeye'') have this logo and the Hanna-Barbera logos play normally. | ||
* It also | * It is also preserved on the DVD releases of ''Get Smart, Again'' and ''God Bless the Child'', respectively. | ||
* It also | * It can also be seen at the end of the Sandy Frank dub of ''Gamera'' (1965), which was featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. | ||
* The sped-up variant was also seen on ''Defenders of the Earth'', and is also preserved on the DVD release and on the Comics Kingdom YouTube channel. | * The sped-up variant was also seen on ''Defenders of the Earth'', and is also preserved on the DVD release and on the Comics Kingdom YouTube channel. | ||
* It also | * It was also seen at the end of the syndicated series ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', which aired during the 1989-1990 season (the parent King Features Syndicate distributed Dr. Ruth Westheimer's column to newspapers, so naturally their TV arm produced her show). | ||
* It also made an appearance on AMC's print of ''Six Weeks'' back in the early 2000s. | * It also made an appearance on AMC's print of ''Six Weeks'' back in the early 2000s. | ||
* On BET airings of ''The Women of Brewster Place'', the warp speed version is seen with the ending theme playing over it. | * On BET airings of ''The Women of Brewster Place'', the warp speed version is seen with the ending theme playing over it. | ||