Millar Gough Ink

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1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)	2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)

Background

Millar Gough Ink is a production company founded in 1997 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. They are known for having produced the Superman prequel television series Smallville, the 2006 pilot of Aquaman, the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels, the AMC series Into The Badlands and the MTV series The Shannara Chronicles.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled:MILLAR
GOUGH
INK

in an Impact font colored yellow/gold, with only the bottom half of "INK" in white/silver. After one of the music variants are heard, a hammer (which, if you look very, very closely, can be seen in the reflection with a white light part on the bottle) falls down on top and breaks the bottle, causing the orange red ink in it to spread everywhere, covering up the whole screen. A bottle's label may also get ripped apart when the ink spreads.

Variant: On the short series The Strip and some 4:3 prints of Smallville, there is an open-matte version of the logo.

FX/SFX: The hammer smashing the ink bottle, the ink spreading. All live-action effects.

Music/Sounds:

1999: The closing theme of the show, along with a splattering sound.
2001-2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking. No music is heard.
Early 2002: An odd 3-note piano tune with an eerie sound effect.
2002-2011: A reverberating 14-note synth-organ ditty.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is absent.
On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating 14-note synth-organ ditty is playing somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.
High-pitch variants exists.

Availability: Common. First seen on the short series The Strip, and later seen on Smallville and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels on ABC. It also made an appearance on the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman, which was initially released on iTunes and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths; but please don't expect to see this on the films, though.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-May 6, 2019)

Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH" in red. To the right of it is a red beaker with a black water drop in it, and inside the drop, we see the text "INK", also in red.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles; but this logo is expected to appear on the 2022 upcoming television show Wednesday.