Edited sentence: The company's name and last logo were bought and brought back into use by National Telefilm Associates in the early 1980s, and were subsequently sold and re-sold, along with much of the company's film library, which was re-syndicated to television and marketed on home video, giving the false impression of a continuously operating single corporate entity.The occasional productions made under the Republic name and logo in the 1980s and 1990s in no way resembled the original Republic output, nor did they involve any of the company's personnel or their descendants