ITC Film Distributors (UK)

 Background : ITC Film Distributors was the movie distribution division of ITC Entertainment.

1st Logo
(1973-1983)

 Nickname : "The Tri-Pinwheels"

 Logo : On a black background, three pinwheels come up and move around randomly. The three then converge, and for each of them one of the opposite pairs of sails merge into one, leaving three stacked diamonds, or the ITC logo without the letters (the first set from the left is brown, the second green, and the third light brown. The second and third slide left into the first set, and become a three-dimensional version of the design, with "I" in the top diamond, "T" in the middle, and "C" in the bottom diamond. The words "FILM DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED" appear to the right immediately after the flash.

 Variants :
 * Sometimes, the logo is already-formed and still. This was seen on the trailer for Rising Damp: The Movie.
 * A shortened version exists.

 FX/SFX : Cel-mation.

 Music/Sounds : A bombastic orchestral fanfare (actually sourced from two separate tracks from the Bruton Music library, "Destiny" and "Endeavour"). Sometimes, it is silent.

 Availability : Extremely rare. Films that had this logo were the UK prints of Gregory's Girl [retained on the Arrow UK Blu-ray], The Muppet Movie, The Last Unicorn, Saturn 3, the Space: 1999 movie series [Destination: Moonbase Alpha, Alien Attack, Cosmic Princess, Journey Through the Black Sun], Invasion: UFO, Escape to Athena [seen on its U.S. VHS releases], and The Norsemen [blacked out on the U.S. Vestron Video release, although the theme is still heard].

 Editor's Note : None.

2nd Logo
(1981-1987)

 Logo : We start off on a black screen with a star engulfing the screen. The star zooms out and changes to, then blue, then pink, light blue, and then green. The star then reappears with a rapidly spinning pattern inside it. A light gray bar of light with rainbow colored rays fades in and the star disappears. The light bar moves slowly like it's scanning before drawing, as more stars sparkle in the background. As the light bar moves to the bottom, a star flashes in the middle and a light gray box with a rainbow is wiped in from the top, replicating the light bar's pattern. The rays disappear one by one in a random fashion and the ITC logo and "FILM DISTRIBUTORS LTD." fade in below the box and the box is finished drawing, revealing it had different sized lines at the end of the rainbow.

 FX/SFX : CGI.

 Music/Sounds : The theme from Raise the Titanic, composed by John Barry. Sometimes, it is silent.

 Availability : Near extinction. This appeared on the 1983 pre-certGuild Home Video VHS release of Cujo and the original pre-cert Hokushin Audio Visual VHS release of Q: The Winged Serpent. It is unknown what other films had the logo. Like the previous logo, this logo may have been seen on pre-certification VHS releases by ITC Home Video.

 Editor's Note : None.