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Nickname: "The Transamerica T" Logo: It starts with two sets of blue lines going into place, one by one on a black background. One line turns to the left, another turns to the right, and so on. There are six lines altogether, revealing the logo of Transamerica Corporation, United Artists' former owner. The stylized blue "T" design zooms out to the right side to make room for the company name "United Artists", which appears in a Impact font. A small byline pops in afterward, inscribed "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation", which appears under the UA name. Trivia: This was the result of a branding strategy of the Transamerica Corporation, unifying all their owned companies under the main company's logo. This included, among others: Transamerica Distribution Services, Transamerica Airlines, Liberty Records, Blue Note Records, and of course, United Artists and subsidiary United Artists Television. Variants: There has been a version with the "T" zooming out to the bottom left corner. So far, this has been seen on The Killer Elite, Bugs Bunny Superstar, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Breakheart Pass,and Return of the Pink Panther, among other films from between 1974 and 1975. A prototype variant exists where the "T" forms at a faster rate, the byline is already present, and everything zooms out farther before jarringly cutting back to the normal spot. This is only known to have appeared on The Thomas Crown Affair. On some trailers, the "T" is white. On some films, such as most James Bond of this period (with the exception of original theatrical prints of On Her Majesty's Secret Service), the logo would cut to black instead of fading out. There is also a B&W variant seen on late 1960's reissues of older black and white United Artists films. This was also seen on two Woody Allen films, Sleeper and Interiors (the latter a 1978 film, strangely). On a few films, such as Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) and Midnight Cowboy, the logo faded into a white background to accompany the opening credits. There is a variant just like the 6th logo. It starts off with "United Artists" and the Transamerica "T". Then "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation" fades in, possibly as a way of United Artists bidding "farewell" to Transamerica after 14 years. This was seen on original theatrical prints of For Your Eyes Only. Surprisingly, this variant currently appears in full on an American trailer for the 1980 release of Arabian Nights (a 1974 Italian film). On reissue trailers for some films a still version of this logo is used, only it says "Re-released thru" above the logo. On the Criterion DVD and Blu-ray of Fellini Satyricon, the logo is zoomed out further than usual. FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The stacking of the lines and the zooming out. Also on some variants, when the blue "T" zooms out to make room for "United Artists", if you look carefully, you can see a little tip of the letter "f" in "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation" under the "A" in "United Artists". Music/Sounds: An ascending musical scale of 6 bendy guitar notes accompanying each of the 6 blue lines, followed by a sharp drum roll, and concluded by a fanfare of horns and drums composed by Doug Goodwin, who also composed "From Head to Toes", the theme used at the intro and closing of Pink Panther Show. Music/Sounds Variants: On the original prints of Fiddler on the Roof, it used a timpani drum piece. Most releases had it silent or with the opening theme/audio of the film. On the current print of The Adventures of Gerard, it uses the last half of the 1982 fanfare, due to a sloppy reverse plaster, but it actually fits this logo quite nicely. On the Region 2 DVDs of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), the standard 1968 version (in 2.35:1 scope) was seen with the fanfare from the 10th logo. This oddity was likely due to a sloppy reverse plaster job, when the newer anamorphic D1 master was being made (being the older Region 1 DVD had the 1994 logo in its place). This oddity also appears on the 1999 MGM DVD Special Edition of On Her Majesty's Secret Service by making a stream of the disc's VTS file, and separating both branches. On the full-screen side on the 2000 MGM DVD release of Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), the 1995 theme is heard. On original prints of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this logo has the sound of race cars (leading into the opening scene of the film) playing over this logo. Availability: Rare. Allegedly first seen on The Thomas Crown Affair, this is generally replaced with later United Artists or MGM logos, because of the Transamerica logo and information on the logo (which is by this time outdated). This is presumably done because Transamerica Corporation still exists as a company (and was still using the "T-Flower" logo in the 1980s). However, this logo (mainly the first variation) can currently be seen on the DVDs and TCM's prints of Cotton Comes to Harlem (o
