GFM Animation

Background
HandMade Films is a production company founded by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien. It was formed primarily to back Monty Python's Life of Brian after the original financiers dropped it. It also purchased the rights to The Long Good Friday from producer British Lion. HandMade later became one of the most dominant companies in the British film industry, making such important films as Time Bandits (1981), Mona Lisa (1986), and Withnail & I (1987). Harrison and O'Brien later sold HandMade to Paragon Entertainment Corporation in 1994. Changing hands over the years, it was eventually acquired by Patrick Meehan, former manager of the band Black Sabbath. The company saw a lot of financial struggles during that time, and in March 2011, it was reorganised and relaunched as GFM Films (now known as GFM Animation or GFM Film Sales) by former HandMade Films principals Guy Collins, Fred Hedman and Michael Ryan. After the on-going financial struggles of the former name, it was finally dissolved in 2020.

(August 17, 1979-December 4, 2009)
Logo: On a black background, an emblem zooms into the frame. It consists of a hand pointing to the left with film camera parts (a tripod at the bottom, reel holders at the top and the lens on the pointing finger), and below it, the words "HAND MADE FILMS ", in a fancy font and looking rather curved. Usually, the word "present" or "PRESENTS" fades in below.

Trivia: The logo was designed by Terry Gilliam, Monty Python collaborator and director of Time Bandits.

Variants:
 * On The Long Good Friday, the logo is in blue on a cloud background.
 * Seen in either white or yellow.
 * Often seen static, sans-zooming.
 * Planet 51 had the word "INTERNATIONAL" below the logo.

FX/SFX: The zoom-in, the fade in of "PRESENTS".

Music/Sounds: The opening and/or closing themes of the movie, or none.

Availability: Very common. Seen on The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits, Water (1985), Shanghai Surprise, Checking Out, Nuns on the Run, and Planet 51. It was also seen on original prints as well as an old VHS of Monty Python's Life of Brian. It made its last appearance on Cracks.

Editor's Note: None.

(2010s)
Logo: On a white background we can see the word "GFM" in red and appears spaced out and zooms in then the dots started to appear creating the word "FILMS" with the dots writing a dotted line on the middle of the letter "G" and the letter "F" with the dots forming the letters with some parts of "FILMS" with the dotted vertical line underneath the dotted "L" and the dotted letter "S" being splited into two.

FX/SFX: Simple 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA.

Availability: TBA.

Editor's Note: None.

(April 11, 2022- )


Logo: On a white background with a 3D weird circle, we see the words "GFM" in red text glowing and under it is the red dotted spot text "ANIMATION" with red spiky balls flying up until the red spiky balls and glowing has stopped. The logo stays for three minutes until it fades out.

Variants:
 * On trailers for Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, the logo is in still print form along with some logos next to them.
 * A still white in-credit version appears at the end of Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank.

FX/SFX: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: The opening/closing theme of the movie.

Availability: Current. It was first seen on trailers for Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, and it later appeared on the film itself, and it also likely be seen on other new films in the future.

Editor's Note: None.