United Artists 1968 Logo (reconstructed)

Reconstructed alternate version of the United Artists logo introduced in 1968 featuring the (often-missing) music often mistakenly attributed to Lalo Schifrin.

This variation was most common on the Mirisch/Geoffrey/DePatie-Freling-produced cartoon shorts (Pink Panther, Ant and the Aardvark, The Inspector, Tijuana [Texas] Toads, Hoot Kloot) released to movie theaters; the music heard within is actually credited to Doug Goodwin, the musical director of the Mirisch/Geoffrey/D-F cartoons; the final half of the music was used on the United Artists Television ID from this period.

(The video is from an UK widescreen version broadcast of the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever" and is a PAL-to-NTSC conversion. The audio was found elsewhere online and overdubbed onto the logo shown here.)

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• United
• Artists
• Movies
• Logos
• Transamerica
• Lalo
• Schifrin
• idents
• Doug
• Goodwin
• Mirisch
• Geoffrey
• DF
• DePatie-Freling

[troyboy7962]

TCM never showed this logo. insteadthe MGM logo was seen at the beginning of all the united artists films

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@troyboy7962: You didn't notice this, but...some UA movies HAVE turned up on TCM with this logo sans music (it was retained on its prints of Woody Allen's "What You Didn't Know About Sex..." and "Sleeper" for instance) with the MGM logo first, then whichever UA logo was on the print in many cases (remember: not all recently-issued copies of some United Artists movies have an UA logo on them).

[Watcher3223]

If anyone wanted to know what a match made in hell looked like, it was United Artists under the ownership of Transamerica.

Think about it.

Transamerica dealt with insurance products and their business was very risk averse. Contrast this to a motion picture company, where risk is a big part of the business.

All United Artists needed was one flop for Transamerica to drop then faster than an account making a fraudulent insurance claim.

And that flop came under the name of "Heaven's Gate."

[TheComicfreak10]

Music is sweet

[1soniccool]

This logo has been shorten for the Tv logo

[lacpof]

Is that a jackhammer at 0:05?

[bakertoons]

I have tons of 16mm prints of DePatie-Freleng cartoons and many of them retain this logo.

[bloggaloggs]

What do you mean by 'reconstructed'?  Reconstructed by whom? This isn't the original? It looks like it to me...

[BadNews88]

"Fiddler On The Roof"'s beginning has (had?) the 'Transamerica' opeing with 'overture/intro' music from the film. Does that exist anywhere in the world? TCM and all video releases seem to have scrapped that GLORIOUS opening bit..

[ShaDeed329]

Showtime did years ago, troyboy7962.

[clintbronson5]

This is the orig. logo shown on CHARLES BRONSON'S THE MECHANIC 

[Brundall525]

@vinylrecord68 of course.

[vinylrecord68]

@Brundall525 Because the logos were both blue on a black background?

[vinylrecord68]

@troyboy7962 "Cops and Robbers" (1973) still has this logo intact, but with the movie's music playing instead of UA's.