Four Companies Productions

Background

Four Companies Productions was a short-lived British collaboration company founded in 1968 between Ulster Television, Westward Television, Border Television, and Grampian Television, made as a way to get more airtime and to release documentaries. They only released one documentary before they closed down.

Logo (May 24, 1968)

Visuals: On a white background is a print logo of the Border Television logo. The screen then cuts to a print logo of Ulster Television, but in a black box on the top left. Then a print logo of Grampian Television on the bottom right, a Westward Television logo appears on the top right, and lastly, the Border Television print logo again in a box appears on the bottom left. Text then appears in the middle which reads “A FOUR COMPANIES PRODUCTION”.

Technique: Cutting effects.

Audio: None.

Availability: It only appeared on the documentary The Price of a Record.