Millar Gough Ink

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

Background

Millar Gough Ink is an American television and film production company founded in 1997 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

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

Logo: At the office, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled the stacked gold-white gradient words in an Impact font reading:

MILLAR

GOUGH

INK

After one of the music variants are played, a hammer (which, if you look very, very closely, you can see a hammer falling down, as seen in the reflection on the bottle) falls down on top of it and breaks it, causing the ink in it to splash everywhere, covering up the whole screen.

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

FX/SFX: Entirely live-action. The live-action logo was made by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Music/Sounds: There are the music variants:

October 12th, 1999-July 7th, 2000: On The Strip, The closing theme of the show is played before the splattering sound.
October 16th, 2001-February 12th, 2002: Just the sound of a bottle breaking.
February 26th, 2002-May 21st, 2002: An odd, 3-note piano tune, accompanied by an eerie, distorted chorus.
September 24th, 2002-November 10th, 2011: An 13-note cathedral organ ditty, accompanied by an 7-note instrumental tune, followed by a last note.

Both music variants ended with the splattering sound or the sound of a bottle breaking. Sometimes, the sounds at the end of this logo is even louder.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug" of the 1st season of Smallville, the bottle breaking sound is omitted.
On the early episodes of the 2nd season of Smallville, the cathedral organ ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.
Some original airings (eg. The C&W) use a generic theme and a voice over.
On the episode "Arrival" of the 5th season of Smallville, the last note and the bottle breaking sounds are synced due to several reasons.

Availability: Pretty 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, Sony Crackle and the CTV Throwback in Canada. It is also seen on the 2011 revival show, which was also initially released as a Blu-ray print by Mill Creek Entertainment, and also seen on the 2011 revival show as a DVD release by ABC Signature. It also made an appearance on the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman, which was initially released on iTunes on July 2006 and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. It may have also appeared on Channel 4 and E4 airings or 2003 DVD releases of season 1 of Smallville. This doesn't appear on films such as Hannah Montana: The Movie, which has the different company's logo instead. This doesn't appear either on some television shows or films starting with Bugs and ending with Made Men, which also has the different company's logo instead.

2nd Logo (November 15th, 2015-present)

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

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability: Brand new. Currently seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles. It's expected to appear on the upcoming 2022 Netflix series Wednesday. This doesn't appear on films.