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.

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

Logo: In an office, at the forefront, we see a bottle with orange red ink inside it labeled with the company name being stacked in an Impact font colored in gold, with only the bottom half in white/silver. After one of the music variants are heard, a hammer (which if you look very closely, can be seen in the reflection of the bottle) falls down on top and hits the bottle, causing the orange red ink in it to spread everywhere, covering up the whole screen. The screen fades to the orange red screen, and abruptly cuts to the next or split-screen logo.

Variant: There exists an open-matte version of the logo.

FX/SFX: Entirely live-action.

Music/Sounds: Here are the music variants in this logo:

1999: The closing theme of the show, along with a splattering sound.
2001-2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking.
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 season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug" of Smallville, the bottle breaking sound is omitted.
On some early episodes of the 2nd season of Smallville, the reverberating 14-note synth-organ ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound.
Sometimes, the closing theme of the show may be played before the bottle breaking sound.
Original airings use a generic theme and voiceover.

Availability: Common. First seen on the short-lived 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.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)

Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". 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".

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands and The Shannara Chronicles. It's expected to appear on the upcoming Netflix show Wednesday.