Shaftesbury Films

Background
Shaftesbury Films is a Canadian film and television company founded by Christine Jennings in 1987.

1st (known) Logo (Early 2000's-2009)
Nickname: "The Bell"

Logo: Against a black background, we see a large yellow picture of a bell swaying inside an invisible box. The bell then suddenly stops moving as the text "SHAFTESBURY" appears below in yellow.

FX/SFX: The bell moving.

Music/Sounds: A calm piano/string fanfare with a bell ringing. Other times it may use the closing theme of the show/movie or silence.

Availability: Seen on Shaftesbury movies and TV series from the era, such as Life with Derek and as well as Season 1 and the very first to mid half part of Season 2 of Murdoch Mysteries, which first originally aired on City TV (later CBC Television).

Editor's Note: None.

Final Note: Murdoch Mysteries now have moved to CBC Television since late season two after City no longer premiered it at that time on.

2nd Logo (2009-2017)
Logo: We see the dark blue word Shaftesbury moving very close to the camera and placing itself in the blue space, above the moving planet.

Variant: On kid-oriented series from the company post-2009, 4 multicolored cards with the letters of the word "KIDS" in them fly underneath "Shaftesbury".

FX/SFX: The text and planet moving, which looks very corporate.

Music/Sounds: A peaceful string fanfare, the ending theme of the show, or silence. The Shaftesbury Kids variation has a whimsical arrangement of the fanfare.

Availability: Common. Seen on series from the company from the era, such as The Listener and all the rest of Murdoch Mysteries on CBC Television and CBC Gem TV.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (around 2017-)
Nickname(s): "The Fancy Orange Streamer that's Blowing the Wind". "Shaftesbury's Got the Wind!!". "The Windy Logo".

Logo: On a gradient white background, we see the black capitalised spaced out text that reads off the following:

S H A F T E S B U R Y

in the Telepictures Productions Circle T logo-esque font. Also, we see a nice and adorable looking orange wavy tailed streamer flag (or gift/present ribbon) being placed back in front drawing throughout the latter text in the entire logo, then the orange ribbon itself later stops scribbling for the last few seconds or so.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds The ending theme of the TV series, or maybe none.

Availability: Common. Seen on newest episodes of Murdoch Mysteries starting sometime with the 9th season to onwards, even also on other programmes from the company in this era.

Editor's Note: None.