The "For Your Eyes Only" logo is interesting. It is a combination of the 1968 and 1975 logos. It's as if United Artists was subliminally saying "Farewell" to Transamerica, after 14 years.
I have a taped copy of "For Your Eyes Only" when it aired on TBS in 1997, and you're right. It's just the white "United Artist" text on a black screen (no mention of Transamerica). That logo was also seen on 1982-83 prints of Bond films released by 20th Century-Fox Video and CBS/Fox Video.
I like this video with the studio logos in front of the gunbarrel. Although the one from Living Daylights is not how it looked in the cinema. The United Artist logo used was the same one as in Licence to kill with the "woosh" thing past the "A" in 'Artists'.
There was a game for the old Nintendo 64 called golden eye and it was the first multiplayer game and was made by rareware and it is a game that I've always wanted to own for the old NINTENDO 64 witch I just got back from my dad but I couldn't find it so I have the world is not enough with blue cartridge that was made by electronic arts Inc.
I would suspect that the transamerica UA logos would have been taken from the ITV screenings of Diamonds Are Forever, (Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation animated blue T) so was most likely the old ITV Diamonds Are Forever version the Spy who Loved Me and Moonraker (A Transamerica Company) and For your Eyes Only (static Entertainment From Transamerica Corporation) given that ITV still had the Transamerica UA logos on the above four Bonds as late as 2009
How did you get the original logos for films 5-12? Are these from recent British TV prints? I heard for those Bond films, the original UA logos are retained in such prints.
also the last ITV screening of On Her Majestys Secret Service to have the blue T Transamerica UA logo was in December 1998 and the 1967 UA Transamerica logo still opened You Only Live Twice on ITV again as late as 2009 and the post 1999 ITV copies of On Her Majestys Secret Service have the 1995 UA logo as do Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun which were shot in a different ratio but you used the Panavision sized version at the start of those two
MGM has been notorious for logo plastering after they acquired UA in 1981. (In part they _had_ to, as the studio was no longer property of Transamerica.) So that’s how the rotating UA logo was commonplace in the early 1980s, but apparently it wasn’t actually used for any of the Bond films *released* between 1982 and 1987.
These are the ones I'm most familiar with but it seems they were only part of TV airings, cable or the VHS versions - they never played in cinemas. I'll bet you're also Gen-X like myself.
Until now, United Artists Releasing is now distributing all MGM, Orion, Annapurna and American International’s movies in North America, while Universal Pictures distributing them internationally.
