'''Availability:''' Still intact on Paramount color releases of the period, including ''Branded'', ''When Worlds Collide'', ''The Greatest Show on Earth'', ''Shane'', ''Arrowhead'', and the end of ''The War of the Worlds'' (the opening of the film uses the 3rd logo), among others.
* The last film to use this logo was ''Here Come the Girls''.
* It also makes a surprisean appearance at the beginning of the ''Duckman'' episode "The Road to Dendron".
===6th Logo (May 27, 1953-September 24, 1975)===
* The <u>size and the color tint</u> of the logo may vary.
* On films produced in <u>2.35:1</u> and some 1979-1986 films produced in <u>1.85:1</u>, the stars fade in further down the mountain than usual, and "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">'''''Paramount'''''</span>" overlaps the mountain's peak. This usually does not affect the end product.
* One variation from <u>1976</u> has the navy blue portion of the final logo appear smaller than usual, with the "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">'''''Paramount'''''</span>" script slightly smaller, and the stars and Gulf+Western byline drastically larger. This rather strange variation appears on films such as ''Hustle'', ''Leadbelly'', ''The Last Tycoon'', and ''Lifeguard'', among others. A less awkward version with resized text (but still keeping the smaller mountain) appears on films such as ''The Bad News Bears'', ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar'', ''Lipstick'', ''Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood'', and ''Thieves''. This version also lacks a registered trademark symbol.
* A variation of this logo was used as a bumper for <u>trailers for upcoming films</u> with the words "'''Coming From'''" above. However, trailers for ''Popeye'', ''D.A.R.Y.L.'' and other films use the normal version instead.
* On a <u>promotional film for the studio</u>, a circle of stars is seen and the logo is revealed, but is completely white.
** While the 8th logo plasters this (but retains the original fanfare) on the iTunes and Blu-ray trailer for ''Airplane!'', the DVD release retains the original variation.
* This logo is also seen on the 1982(?) Paramount Home Video Gateway Video VHS release of the ''Star Trek'' episode "Space Seed", following the 1979 Acid Trip warning and preceding the episode (the Betamax version precedes the episode with a trailer for ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'' after the warning, instead of the logo).
* Strangely, thisThis logo is also seen after the credits on the VHS release of ''Jailbait'' (aka ''Streetwise''), at least on the U.S. screener VHS release.
* This logo may have also been seen on Canadian theatrical prints of [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]] films such as ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* It may have also been seen on international prints of ''Gallipoli'', as Paramount distributed the film internationally (it is also preserved intact on the 2005 Australian Region 4 DVD release of said movie, but most Australian prints (such as the 1982 Australian VHS release thereof) use no logo at the start.)
** An <u>early version of the Viacom byline variant</u> exists, which has it slightly bigger and off-center. The clouds also stop moving once it fades in, likely because it reuses footage from the Paramount Communications variant. This can be found on the first two films that use this byline (''The Brady Bunch Movie'' and ''Losing Isaiah''). It is also the last time the original cloud background is used.
* <u>May 21, 1993-December 23, 1994:</u> The clouds and stars are slightly darker, and the Paramount Communications byline now has a drop shadow.
* <u>June 30, 1999-February 15, 2002:</u> The same basic concept is here, but the logo has been slightly enhanced. The stars are thicker (with golden sides), shinier, and have a motion blur effect. Their reflection can now be seen in the lake in front of the mountain, and the Paramount script and Viacom byline now shine. The mountain now also turns dark, and the cloud background is slightly enhanced. Also, the "®" symbol now fades in at the same time as the byline. These additions are subtle, but add a lot to the logo nevertheless.
** On some films shot in <u>2.39:1 aspect ratio</u>, such as ''Bringing Out the Dead'', ''Mission: Impossible II'', ''Shaft'' (2000), and ''Rat Race'', the logo starts with a still picture of the mountain before animating normally, much like its home video counterpart. It also has a bit of a brownish or bluish color scheme.
** On some films shot in <u>2.39:1 aspect ratio</u> as well as some 2000-2002 films shot in <u>1.85:1 aspect ratio</u>, the stars, text and byline are somewhat smaller than the normal 16:9 variant in order to match the aspect ratio.
* On the <u>Australian DVD release and a French print of ''The Next Best Thing''</u>, the [[Lakeshore Entertainment]] theme is heard over the logo due to an editing error where the order of the logos are reversed but the audio isn't.
* On the <u>UK Second Sight Blu-ray release of ''Creepshow'' (1982)</u>, the NTSC-pitched 1994 [[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television]] fanfare plays over the ending version of this logo.
* On <u>European TV airings of ''Braddock: Missing in Action II'' (1985)</u>, the 1995 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] lion roar is heard over the Viacom byline version of the 1986 logo in one of the sloppiest plastering jobs of all time - likely due to those airings using a Paramount-owned TV print with audio from an MGM-owned master.
* On the Icon UK DVD release of ''What Women Want'' (2000), the thunderclap from the 1994 [[Icon Productions]] logo is heard due to an audio swapping error (the DVD release uses the pitched-up U.S. audio master, as Paramount held the U.S. rights to the movie while Icon held internationally).
* Paramount has used the 1995 Viacom variation in all logo plasters and TV movies, such as those made for Showtime.
* The 75th Anniversary logo can be found on 1987 VHS releases of ''Top Gun'', ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''The Whoopee Boys'', ''Crocodile Dundee'', ''Children of a Lesser God'', and ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'', and was plastered with its later variations for many years.
** However, Paramount nicely preserved this variant later on, as it is preservedseen on the DVD releases of ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' and ''The Untouchables'' and the 2022 Blu-ray release of ''Back to the Beach'' under the Paramount Presents (#34) line.
** It is also left intact on VH1's print of ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987).
** The 75th Anniversary logo is also seen at the start and end of the 1987 U.S. VHS release of ''G'Day Australia: Like Nothing Else on Earth''.
*** However, on the 2009 Blu-ray and DVD re-releases (as well as the 2023 UHD and Blu-ray releases), the Paramount Communications variation is restored.
* The Paramount Communications variant of this logo also plasters the 1982 [[Orion Pictures]] logo on Spike TV airings of ''First Blood'' (as Paramount Communications had already folded into Viacom by the time Viacom purchased [[Worldvision Enterprises]], [[Carolco Pictures]]' television distributor, in full, it's possible that the logo first appeared on that film around the time Viacom, which had by then already acquired Paramount Communications, merged with Blockbuster, which owned Worldvision's parent company [[Spelling Television]]).
** It can also be found on VHS releases from 1989 to 1995, and also makes a surprisean appearance at the end of older U.S. prints of ''Sleepy Hollow'' (however, current prints have the Viacom byline of this logo), with the standard 1999 logo at the beginning of said film.
** The Paramount Communications variant also makes surprise appearances on the Mexican DVD release of ''Demonic Toys'' (''Juguetes Demoniacos'') and the [[Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp.|Echo Bridge Home Entertainment]] DVD releases of ''Puppet Master 5'', likely due to being sourced from older VHS masters.
** The tail end of it also makes a surprisean appearance on the rough cut of the final ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' episode "Diabolik", while the actual episode itself cuts it out.
** It was also seen at the start of an April 8, 2023 UK airing of the 1978 TV movie ''True Grit: A Further Adventure'' on LEGEND.
* The standard Gulf+Western variant of this logo is also preserved on VHS releases from 1988 to 1989, and also makes a surprisean appearance on the Razor Digital DVD release of the original ''Puppet Master''.
* The Viacom variant of this logo is also preserved on VHS releases from 1995 to 2003 (as detailed above), and at the end of AMC airings of ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' and ''Prancer''.
* Strangely, theThe 1995-2002 version with the Viacom byline was also spotted after the split-screen credits of Nickelodeon airings of ''Barnyard''. This was the result of a credits error that resulted in Nickelodeon instead using the ones for ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', which was also an O Entertainment/Paramount movie.
* On the other hand, this logo can be found on DVD, digital, and Blu-ray prints of ''Jimmy Neutron'', as well as TV airings, but is plastered with the 90th Anniversary version of the next logo on its original VHS release.
* The silent version of the Viacom variant is also preserved on Hulu prints of ''The Lorax'' (1972) and ''The Cat in the Hat''.
*On <u>video releases from the company</u>, the logo is videotaped and often in open-matte.
*Starting with <u>''Iron Man 2''</u>, the logo was enhanced once more with shinier text and sleeker stars that jump out of the reflection of the sky, and the Viacom byline is switched to its 2006 font. There is a noticeable error in this variant where the stars from the first half of the logo are visible behind the "Paramount" script as it zooms out where it should normally obscure them (the deleted alternate opening of the film uses the original variant).
**This variant was possibly done to accomodateaccommodate for stereoscopic 3D films, since the first overall appearance of this variant was technically in the 2007 film <u>''Beowulf''</u>, albeit with the byline being in the "Wigga-Wigga" font and with a part of it being warped. The international version of the film used the 3D [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] logo used on IMAX documentaries of the time, which plays normally.
*On <u>fullscreen DVD releases of Paramount movies shot in 2.39:1</u>, the logo is incredibly zoomed in, since it is in the 4:3 ratio. On matted films, it is either zoomed in halfway or in open matte.
* An <u>open-matte version</u> exists on some uncropped 35mm film scans of films, with one such example being on ''Mean Girls''.
'''Closing Variants:'''
*Only the finished product of the logo, with the only animation being the clouds in the background. It's basically the same as its [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|pre-2006 television counterpart]], but slightly extended and silent.
*On <u>''The Eye''</u> and <u>''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''</u> (both 2008), the logo is completely still.
*<u>2006-October 28, 2011:</u> When distributing films from another company, the words "DISTRIBUTED BY", in white, are seen above the logo with the Viacom byline and the line. Usually seen at the end of DreamWorks Pictures (however, some films will say "DISTRIBUTED BY DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT DISTRIBUTION") and DreamWorks Animation films beginning in late 2006. Also oddly appeared at the end of ''Iron Man'' before the [[Marvel Studios]] logo.
*The "DISTRIBUTED BY" text was updated along with the Viacom byline starting in <u>2010</u>.
*The version without the "{{color|#EDD602|'''{{Font|Times New Roman|''90''}}<sup>{{small|''TH''}}</sup> ANNIVERSARY'''}}" tag debuted on ''How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'' (released on February 7, 2003), and made its final appearance on ''She's Out of My League'' (released on March 12, 2010); it made its final closing appearance on ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' (released on May 27, 2011).
*The enhanced version debuted on ''Iron Man 2'' (released on April 26, 2010), and made its final full appearance on ''The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn'' (released on October 26, 2011), with its final closing appearance at the end of ''The Dictator'' (released on May 16, 2012, though the next logo is used at the beginning).
*Despite being mostly retired after 2011, this logo also makes surprise appearances on the 2011 French film ''Beur sur la ville'', the 2012 Brazilian animated film ''Peixonauta: Agente Secreto da O.S.T.R.A.'', and the 2015 Spanish film ''Capture the Flag'' (only at the beginning; the film uses the next logo at the end).
**The 2010 variant also appears on the 2012 restorations of ''Wings'' and ''Hondo'', respectively.
*The 90th Anniversary variant also sometimes plasters old logos on 2002 video releases, as well as the 1984 [[TriStar Pictures]] logo on Encore airings of ''Rambo III''.
*It also plasters the [[Weintraub Entertainment Group]] logo on an Encore airing of ''My Stepmother is an Alien'', retaining the film's opening music.
*It also plasters the 1982 [[Orion Pictures]] logo on HBO, Comedy Central, and IFC airings of ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'' (also plasters the closing version of the logo at the end, with the following [[Nelson Entertainment]] logo kept at the beginning), and the 1995 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] logo on older HBO airings of ''House Arrest'' (1996).
*Surprisingly, theThe full version appears at the beginning of a few early episodes of ''Hogan's Heroes'' on MeTV, including the pilot episode and the HD remasters on Universal HD.
*Strangely, thisThis logo does not appear at the beginning of ''Strange Wilderness'', however, the "Distributed by" variant appears at the end.
*It also appears at the end of [[DreamWorks Animation]] films released from 2006 to 2011, but not at the beginning of them, unlike [[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]] and [[Universal Pictures]].
**It does, however, appear on the VCD release of ''Flushed Away'' (2006) before the DreamWorks Animation logo.
*This logo is also sometimes seen at the end of modern prints of [[DreamWorks Pictures]] films, such as on a Netflix print of ''The Cat in the Hat'' and the Blu-ray release of ''Mouse Hunt''.
*The ViacomCBS variant has also been spotted on some newer prints of older films, as well as the 30th anniversary edition of ''The Godfather Part III'', where it plasters the 1990 version of the 1986 logo.
*Strangely enough, thisThis was also seen at the end of the August 7, 2022 [[Cartoon Network]] airing of ''Shrek 2'', plastering the closing variant of the previous logo, similar to the BBC's plaster above.
*This logo is also seen at the end of ''Secret Headquarters'', a [[Paramount+]] original film.
**However, it does not appear at the beginning of said film, as the aforementioned logo is used instead.
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