Hong Kong Alpha Motion Picture Co.

Background
Hong Kong Alpha Motion Picture Co./Seven Seas Motion Pictures Company (香港七海影業公司/七海電影公司) was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese film company, who are well-known for their Bruceploitation films. Due to poor box office returns, they closed some time after 1979, possibly 1983.

(1968-1979)


Logo: Over footage of waves crashing against rocks, a triangle zooms in from the center to the left side of the screen. Below the right corner of the triangle is "ALPHA". A underline is then drawn to the right of it, spanning the entire screen before "香港七海影業公司", in traditional brushstroke script and read in the old right-to-left way, wipes in from right to left. Below it, "" wipes in from left to right. The logo remains on-screen for a several more seconds before it fades out, leaving the waves for a second longer before it cuts to the film.

Variants:
 * Sometimes, the logo is black.
 * On Gambling for Head, the logo is on a black background, and is notably squashed vertically.

Technique: Live-action and simple motion-controlled animation.

Music/Sounds: The sounds of waves crashing. The Gambling for Head has a serious-sounding stringer.

Availability: Extremely rare. Can be seen on some prints of their films, like Gambling For Head, Fist of Fury II, and possibly a few others. However, most films cut out any mention of them on many of the prints circulating around.