Guild Film Distribution (UK)

=1st Logo= (1987-1992)

Logo: On a blue background, orange bar segments fly in from the left and right of the screen, while they sparkle and zoom out. Eventually, the bars start forming the Guild logo (without the TV tube and the square on the bottom). When the logo is fully formed, the stacked text that says text "GUILD Film Distribution" in Guild's corporate font fades in below.

FX/SFX: Simple movements.

Music/Sounds :
 * 1987-1992 : A synth note is held throughout, with a synth bass line that speeds up slightly near the end, followed by a synth fanfare. A female chorus hums during this section, ending in them shouting "Go Guild!" (hence the nickname; it's hard to tell because the chorus is rather muffled).
 * 1992 : An unknown tune which eventually segués into an orchestral tune.

Availability: Rare. It appears on Guild's first cinema releases, such as Cliffhanger, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Fourth War, Universal Soldier and Rambo III. The 1992 version is seen on Bad Lieutenant (including its theatrical trailer on its Fabulous Film Blu-ray) and other films of the year.

Editor's Note: None.

=2nd Logo= (1992-1996)

Logo: On a black background, we see a director's chair in a blue spotlight. The camera pans around the chair, as a pair parts of the "Hexagon G" slide from both sides of the screen in a tilted position, then the word "GUILD" appears underneath in its corporate font as we zoom into the chair.

FX/SFX: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A mystical pan-flute tune, complete with a synth whoosh and an same orchestra tune (from the previous logo) at the end.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The music was composed using the Korg's M1 workstation from 1988.

Availability: Seen on later Guild cinema releases of the era before the company started a merger with Pathé in 1996. This was used as the defacto home video logo.

Editor's Note: None.