Four Companies Productions

Background

Four Companies Productions was a short-lived British collaboration company founded in 1968 between Ulster Television, Westward Television, Border Television, and Grampian Television, made as a way to get more airtime and to release documentaries. They would all contribute to a £30,000 budget for the scheme and supply staff and facilities as required for the production of each of the programmes. All were to be filmed in colour in order that they could be offered for sale abroad. They only released one documentary before they closed down.

Logo (May 24, 1968)

Visuals: On a white background, there is the Border Television print logo. The screen then cuts to a print logo of Ulster Television, but in a black box on the top left. Then a print logo of Grampian Television on the bottom right, a Westward Television logo appears on the top right, and lastly, the Border Television print logo again in a box appears on the bottom left. Text then appears in the middle which reads “A FOUR COMPANIES PRODUCTION”.

Technique: Printed cards, one after another.

Audio: None.

Availability: It only appeared on the documentary The Price of a Record.