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*An "enhanced"/videotaped version was introduced in 1997. It has more stars at the beginning, an expanded marquee, the interior of the "Turner" text has more reflections and appears to be shinier, the shining effects on the lettering aren't as cheesy, and the animation in general is much smoother.
*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"
*A slowed-down variant of the short version of this logo also exists, which appears on the 1989 UK VHS release of ''Porky Pig and Friends'' from [[MGM/UA Home Video]].
'''Technique:''' All mid-late 1980s CGI.
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*A high tone variant of the short version ended up on Canada's Teletoon reruns of ''The Scooby-Doo Show'', due to the entire respective episodes being aired high-pitched.
**The same can also be said for ''The Flintstones'' episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes" on recent Boomerang Central and Eastern Europe airings from 2013-2018.
*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 still 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 also 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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**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), respectively.
**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 and on the ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' (1980-81 series) episode "Alaskan King Coward" on both the ''Scooby-Doo! Holiday Collection'' and ''Scooby-Doo! Winter Wonderdog'' DVD releases after the 1994 H-B "Comedy All-Stars" logo.
*The intro logo can be still seen whenever ''Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' airs on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast, as well as at the end of the 1966 ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'' special on Cartoon Network.
*The slowed-down variant of the short version also appears on the 1989 UK VHS release of ''Porky Pig and Friends'' from [[MGM/UA Home Video]] as well.
*The enhanced version was recently found on films like ''Nine 1/2 Weeks'' (surprisingly, the [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]] PAL DVD release of said film retains it as well) and ''Oxford Blues'' on the Encore networks, and can be found on the original DVDs of ''Poltergeist'', ''The Wizard of Oz'', ''A Christmas Story'' (it was also spotted on a 2001 TNT airing), ''Logan's Run'', ''How The West Was Won'', a 1998 VHS of ''Gone with the Wind'', and a 2000 VHS of ''Shaft'' (1971), among other pre-1986 MGM films from MGM/UA Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video.
*It was also seen on Movies! airings of ''Crossfire'' (1947).
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Turner Entertainment Company (commonly referred to as Turner Entertainment Co.) was established on August 2, 1986 by Ted Turner, initially as a media distribution subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, to oversee its film and television libraries for domestic and worldwide distribution, after its acquisition of MGM/UA Communications Co.[1] and United Artists Corporation respectively[2]) Since Time Warner[3] acquired Turner Broadcasting in 1996, it has served as an in-name only subsidiary of and copyright holder for Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
The logo itself was originally used by Turner Advertising Company, the predecessor to Turner Broadcasting System, as shown in this photo.
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Logo: On a blue/violet gradient CGI starfield, a blue oblong marquee with gold trim with the word "Turner" in silver and fancy italic letters with the right arm of the "T" extended over the other letters, and the left arm curled 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:
Other variations:
Technique: All mid-late 1980s CGI.
Music/Sounds:
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Uncommon for both versions.
Logo: A still of the Turner logo on a white background, which is positioned center-left. There are segmented lines behind the logo.
Technique: 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.
Logo: This has two distinct versions:
Variants:
Technique: None.
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.
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