Four Companies Productions
Zachary MB
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Zachary MB
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Zachary MB
Background
Four Companies Productions was a short-lived British collaboration company founded in 1968 between Ulster Television/UTV (UK), Westward Television (UK), Border Television (UK), and Grampian Television (UK), made as a way to get more Airtime and to release documentaries. They only released 1 documentary before they closed down.
(1968)
Nickname: “The 4 Boxes”
Logo: On a white background, we see a print logo of the Border Television logo. We then cut 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, we see the Border Television print logo again in a box appear on the bottom left. A text then appears in the middle which reads “A FOUR COMPANIES PRODUCTION”.
FX/SFX: The logos appearing one by one, along with the text.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Extinct. It only appeared on the documentary The Price of a Record.
Editor's Note: None.