Subsequently, it was rebranded "WarnerMedia". Warner Bros. Television is the television division of Warner Bros. Pictures, founded on March 21, 1955 by studio vice president Jack L. Warner and headed by TV producer and actor William T. Orr (credited as "Wm. It premiered on Key Largo and was last used on Cool Hand Luke (but copyrighted to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, as the merger had finished by the time the film was completed). It premiered on Performance and made its final appearance on What's Up, Doc?. Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the movie. FX/SFX: None, except for the "PRESENTS" text fading in on the original Warner Communications variation. Music variant: On New York Confidential, the logo had a different fanfare, composed by Joseph Mullendore. Editor's Note: The shield looks very ugly. (On earlier films from 1970, such as. Below that is a very small WB shield (using the stylized WB seen in logo 1), and in script, "Present". Trivia: The Big \\' was designed by Saul Bass (1920-1996), who also designed the Geffen "G" logo. February 12, 1999-August 6, 2020: An 8-note piano tune that builds into a powerful, moving fanfare, based on the standard "As Time Goes By." Background: Warner Bros. Pictures was originally founded in 1918 by the Warner brothers Harry (1881-1958), Albert (1883-1967), Sam (1887-1927), and Jack L. (1892-1978), Polish-Jewish brothers who emigrated from Belarus to Ontario, Canada, as the third-oldest American movie studio in continuous operation, after Paramount Pictures was founded on May 8, 1912 as "Famous Players Film … Logo: It starts the same way as the previous logo (but probably tinted blue), then we see the new Warner Bros shield without a banner swing in fully upright from the left of screen against the same cloudy sky background as the previous logo. Music/Sounds: So far, the opening theme of the movie. Domestic Pay TV Cable & Network Features. The border of the shield, banner, text, and "WB" are now gold, and the inside of the shield is now blue. "Entertaining The World" fades in underneath followed by the Time Warner Entertainment byline in white and in a different typeface. : An 8-note piano tune that builds into a powerful, moving fanfare, based on the theme from, It's seen on most WB films from 1998 to about mid-2020, starting with. Animation (Others) | Warner Animation Group (Others | Trailer variants) | Hanna-Barbera (Others | Australian Version) | Turner Entertainment However, a few movies on Encore contain this logo (Oh, God! Canada | France | Greece | Latin America | Middle East | Spain | UK and Ireland, Warner/WB: Asia | France | Latin America | India, Other assets: A simple lettering of the WB appears at the upper part and a rectangle of the same colors appear at the lower part of the shield, with the Kinney byline inside. (where the 10th logo preceded this one). Warner Bros. merged with Seven Arts Productions in 1967, renaming it to "Warner Bros.-Seven Arts". In 1992, Time Warner formed "Time Warner Entertainment" by merging all of its entertainment operations for the first time. The shield is seen on a white backdrop. Latin America: HBO Pack | HBO | HBO 2 | Family | Signature | Mundi | Xtreme | Pop | HBO + Logo descriptions by Jason Jones, Matt Williams and Hb1290Logo captures by Eric S., Hoa, V of Doom, Logophile, Mr.Logo, naxo-ole, Sagan Blob, StephenCezar15, TheEriccorpinc, ClosingLogosHD, and RedheadXilamGuy Editions by Bob Fish, Shadeed A. Kelly, Logophile, Curiousgeorge60, Chowchillah, Yoshidude987, Lotsoflogos, Blatch, KirbyGuy2001 (Logoblin), Unnepad, GoAnimateFan199Pro, GustavoBigSir and Vahan NisanianVideo captures courtesy of JeiceTheWarrior, BreadCrustCouncil, Warner Bros, Peakpasha, Logic Stock Inc., DecadesMTS 2002 Video Vault, WarnerBrosLogo, ClosingLogosHD, Logo Archive,In der Altmark zu Hause,kbros9698,Alex Duncan Wylie and Mistrybros. However, the addition of the WB Studios inside the shield wouldn't be referenced again until the 1998 logo. The logo premiered on Paris and made its final appearance on Anthony Adverse. Nicknames: "WCI Shield", "Placeholder Shield", "Tiny Shield", "Mini Shield", "Bannerless WB Shield". Editor's Note: This logo was noted as "drastically simpler" than the previous Warner Bros. logos, and was even considered to be a touch "Nazi-like" by Fast Company magazine. This appeared on, December 8, 1988-March 22, 2000: Another ending variation features the movie logo, but modified with the words "DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS." above the shield. Availability: Extremely rare. Behind it we see a drawing of a flag, "waving" so it looks like it is in three sections. Licensing | Lorimar Television | Lorimar-Telepictures | Lorimar Motion Pictures | Lorimar Records | Lorimar Home Video | Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video1 | Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video4 | Kideo Video | Telepictures Distribution | Time-Telepictures Television | Geffen Pictures | Geffen Television | Machinima | New Line Home Entertainment | Infinifilm | Fine Line Features | Warner Independent Pictures | Hanna-Barbera Home Video | Hanna-Barbera Poland | Hanna-Barbera Australia | Cartoon Network Productions (On-Screen Logos | Logo Variants) | Upwave | The WB | Warner Bros. Italia | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | HBO/Cannon Video | HBO Savoy Video | Nelson Entertainment | Charter Entertainment | Prime Time Entertainment Network | Rankin/Bass Productions | Ruby-Spears Productions | Brut Productions | Castle Rock Entertainment Television | Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company2 | Warner Books | Warner Bros. The shield shines throughout. None for the closing variant. Closing Logo Group Wikia is a FANDOM TV Community.