GUO Film Distributors

Background
GUO Film Distributors was an Australian film distribution company and a unit of Greater Union Cinemas. It distributed its own productions as well as films from Walt Disney Productions and EMI Films (later Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment), both of whom had their Australian distribution contracts inherited from predecessor company British Empire Films. In 1982, the company was renamed to Greater Union Film Distributors.

Logo (1976-1982)


Visuals: On a black background, a gold medallion with an abstract connected "GU" engraved in it zooms in rapidly, shining and sparkling. Then it zooms back slowly and stops at a comfortable position. A spotlight then fades in from behind the medallion, as the following sets of text zoom out below, line-by-line: serif The logo then sparkles.

Technique: Cel animation.

Audio: An abridged variation of Keith Mansfield's "Destiny" from the Bruton Music label. Availability: No video releases or television broadcasts are known to have preserved this, and only one print has ever surfaced.