GDH 559 Co., Ltd.

Background
GDH 559 Co., Ltd. (Thai: บริษัท จีดีเอช ห้าห้าเก้า จำกัด), also known as GDH, is a Thai film studio mainly owned by the Thai entertainment conglomerate GMM Grammy. It was founded on 5 January 2016 as a successor to GMM Tai Hub (GTH) — Thailand's most successful film studio of the early-2000s to the mid-2010s which had been dissolved in December 2015 due to internal conflicts between the company's three major shareholders — GMM Grammy, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin. GTH is reorganized into GDH after the departure of Tai Entertainment and it is formed by GMM Grammy, which holds a majority 51% stake, Hub Ho Hin Film at 15% and the rest are of individual stakeholders which most of them are the company's staff and crew.

2nd Logo (September 1, 2016-)
Nicknames : "The Thaumatrope", "GDH thaumatrope"

Logo : On a white background, the blue "GDH" thaumatrope spins t

Variants : The zoomed-in version of the logo is used in majority of trailers of GDH films beginning in One Day. A faded version is used in the trailer of The Promise. On trailers of Happy Old Year, the logo is a still picture.

FX/SFX : Regular prints of GDH movies shows two versions of the logo. The first appearance of the logo where the blue GDH disc fades in first then followed by the logotype "GROSS DOMESTIC HAPPINESS" in orange. The second appearance of the logo spinning of the thaumatrope. In between these logos are the appearance of the logos of its production companies involved in the production (notably Jor Kwang Films) as well as a sponsor logo spread (mainly by Thai Life Insurance).

Beginning with The Con-heartist and The Medium (Rang Zong), the fade-in version of the logo does not appear.

Cheesy Factor : None

Music/Sounds : None at its first appearance but on the second appearance after the sponsor logos, a majestic fanfare follows. A natural thaumatrope spin sound is used in most prints of The Medium (Rang Zong).

Availability : Current, seen on GDH 559 films starting with One Day. However the logo does not appear on teasers and trailers of The Medium (Rang Zong).

Scare Factor : None to medium.