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*Blue/violet starfield, blue/white/gold marquee, bluish-green planet facing the left, marquee sweeps slowly after about 3 seconds, facing the camera at an angle.
*Violet/red starfield, violet/yellow marquee, blue planet facing the left, marquee sweeps quickly as soon as it fades in,facing the camera at an angle.
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*Sometimes, the logo is shown in black & white.
*On some occasions, chyroned text is shown beneath the logo; one version says "A Turner Entertainment Co. Presentation", another says "Listed on the American Stock Exchange".
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'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
*A high tone variant of the long version can be found before the short film ''The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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*On some Turner shows aired on Teletoon, the logo plays its extended version, but the closing theme plays for half of its length. The other half plays the short logo's music. This was probably done to cover up HB logos, but it's present on the original 1995 print remaster of ''The Tom and Jerry Show'' (1975 version), as seen on Russian, Arabic and Mexican airings of the series.
*A silent version is seen on early 2000's TV Land airings of ''Gilligan's Island'' and the VHS of the colorized version of ''The Philadelphia Story''. The same thing happened at the end of a French airing of ''The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission'', though it is not known if the issue came because of the editing done by the dubbing studio or if the European Turner master itself is like that.
*2011 reruns of ''The Smurfs'' on POP! in the UK have the final seconds of the end credits theme over the short variant, while the logo along with the H-B Swirling Star and the entire end credits sequence have been digitally sped up to match the ending theme song without the sound of the logos, likely due to time-compressing.
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*This was once found on many movies and shows from the Turner library, mainly on older home video releases by MGM/UA Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video. However, ever since the merger between Turner and Time Warner in 1996, many of the shows have since passed on to Warner Bros. Television Distribution (now under WarnerMedia) and thus newer prints of these shows and movies will use WB logos. However, the logo has still managed to end up here and there on some post-1996 releases.
*The long version appears before several short films on TCM (usually preceded by a TCM Extras bumper), but is usually replaced with the current TCM logo on feature films.
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*The logo is also still kept on much of the Hanna-Barbera library. The short version can be still seen on Tooncast broadcasts in Latin America of ''The Flintstones'', ''The Jetsons'' (both remastered and 80s pre-Turner masters retain it), ''Top Cat'' and all three shows on the Boomerang US channel whenever they decide to rerun them again. It was also kept on Boomerang reruns of ''The Atom Ant Show'', two ''Jonny Quest'' episodes ("Arctic Splashdown" and "Curse of Anubis"), two episodes of ''SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron'', ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' (even modern home video releases kept it), and some Hanna-Barbera specials like ''The Town That Santa Forgot'', ''A Flintstones Family Christmas'', ''A Flintstones Christmas'' and ''Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights''. Canada's Teletoon Retro kept the short logo on their prints of ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo'', ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' and ''The New Yogi Bear Show'' (1988 series). European broadcasts, however, always erase out both versions of the logo on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TCM or TN; if it appears, it's usually unintentional.
*The short version of this logo also appears on the 1997 UK VHS of ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Bumper Edition'' after the silent 1969 H-B "Multiplying Rectangles" logo.
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The Turner Entertainment Company (commonly referred to as "Turner Entertainment Co.") was established on August 4, 1986 by media mogul, Ted Turner, initially being a media distribution subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System to oversee its film and television libraries after its ultra short-lived acquisition of MGM/UA Entertainment Co (now "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.," and "United Artists Corporation" respectively, which are now owned by MGM Holdings Inc.). The company was formerly responsible for overseeing its library for worldwide distribution. Since Time Warner (later "WarnerMedia" and now "Warner Bros. Discovery") acquired Turner Broadcasting in 1996, it has served an in-name only subsidiary and copyright holder of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Nicknames: "The Blue/Green Globe", "The CGI Globe", "Planet Turner"
Logo: On a blue/violet gradient CGI starfield, an oblong blue marquee with gold trim with the word "Turner" in silver, fancy and italic letters with the right arm of the "T" extended over the other letters, and the left arm curled; this is the same as the Turner print logo moves in, close to the screen from the right. The camera turns left to follow it, and it approaches a green globe, like a planet or moon, positioned in the top left and lit from there and behind. As it approaches, it zooms out and turns its left side (the camera's right) in away from the camera, eventually settling in front of the globe as the camera movement stops.
Variants: There are two versions of the graphic; one with a large globe at the top left and smaller (in proportion) marquee that faces us at an angle at the end, and one with a smaller globe at the top right and longer, more expanded marquee that faces us head-on. The former is most commonly used as the short version. And keep these color variations in mind too:
FX/SFX: The starfield, logo and globe, all decent mid-late 1980s CGI.
Music/Sounds:
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Uncommon for both versions.
Editor's Note: A fantastic logo due to its CGI and fanfare.
Logo: Just a still of the Turner logo on a white background, which is positioned center-left. There are segmented lines behind the logo.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: A snippet of the Droopy Cartoon "Drag-A-Long Droopy", which is an echoed gunshot after Droopy says the line "Exciting. Isn't it?".
Availability: It's seen only in the documentary Tex Avery: King of Cartoons.
Editor's Note: It's probably a placeholder.
Nicknames: "Filmstrip Star", "Turner Star"
Logo: This has two distinct versions:
Variants:
FX/SFX: Just the fading. For the alternate The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind variant, there's also the star moving on the screen and zooming out. None for the Tom and Jerry Kids in-credit logo.
Music/Sounds:
Availability: Turner used this logo mainly as a print logo during this era, and any onscreen appearance of this logo is quite rare.
Editor's Note: None.
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