Dai Wa Film Company (Hong Kong)

Background: Dai Wa Film Company (棣華影業公司) was a short-lived Hong Kong movie production company founded by two producers Ho Lok-Chuen and So Siu-Tong. The company produced only two movies such as Mrs. Kum, in 1961, and Grivevances of a Family, in 1963.

(April 5, 1961, August 14, 1963) WARNING: Do not watch the video if you are prone to headaches.

Logo: On a black background, we see some leaves with flowers sleeping on many of them. Suddenly the flowers wake up in random order. There's some smoke on the background too. The camera zooms out to the leaves and flowers, following a clover-like flat thing zooming in to us. It then in the center has a circle on it (possibly it's polen) and the flowers morph and unite themselves to the right (the clover-like flat thing) to form slowly two chinese characters, which translates to "Dai Wa". Some circles appear from right to left to form the name of the company, which translates to "Dai Wa Film Company". We fade to black.

FX/SFX: A combination of 2D animation and live action...

Cheesy Factor: ...all of which are decent and some of these are made with stop motions, making it look like a real 2D animation. It may get people headaches, but let's give 'em credit for it using what they could afford.

Music/Sounds: A soap opera-like orchestral fanfare which fits for the logo, following a bombastic ending.

Availability: Extremely rare. Only seen on Mrs. Kum, which can be seen on YouTube. Strangely, it was seen on Grievances of a Family, because Viv Bri added the logo before the opening credits due to there being no logo at the beginning.

Scare Factor: Medium. The overall nature of the logo, the stop motion animation and sudden change of fanfare would have a disjoint of people complaining about it, depends on how you think of this logo whenever you like it or not. Certain people may consider this a favourite, though, which lowers the scare factor.