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Background

Guild Film Distribution was the theatrical division of Guild Home Video.

1st Logo (1985-June 25, 1993)

Visuals: On a blue background, orange bar segments fly in from the left and right of the screen, syncing with the music, while they sparkle and zoom out. Eventually, the bars start forming the Guild logo. When the logo is fully formed, "GUILD Film Distribution" in white and in the Belwe Bold BT font fades in below the logo.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: A synth note is held throughout, with a synth bass line (composed on a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer) that speeds up slightly near the end, followed by a synth fanfare in E♭ minor. A female chorus hums during this section, ending in them shouting "Go Guild!".

Audio Variant: In its last year of usage, it used a lush orchestral remix of the 1993 home video theme.

Availability:

Seen on VHS releases of Guild's first cinema releases, such as Cliffhanger, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Fourth War, Universal Soldier, and Rambo III.
The later music variant was found on a trailer for Bad Lieutenant, which can also be found on the Blu-ray release thereof from Fabulous Films.

2nd Logo (1993-August 2, 1996)

Visuals: Against a black background, there is a director's chair in a blue spotlight. The camera pans around the chair, and both parts of the Guild logo slide from both sides of the screen in a tilted position, then "GUILD" appears underneath when the screen zooms into the chair.

Trivia: This is basically a modified version of the 1993 Guild Home Video logo. The footage of the director's chair is windowboxed and the end logo result is also more stretched than normal.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A mystical pan-flute tune, complete with a synth whoosh and an orchestra at the end. For trailers, normally silence.

Audio Trivia: The music was composed using the Korg M1 workstation from 1988.

Availability: It can be found on any of Guild's theatrical releases right until Chargeurs' demerger of Pathé in 1996.

The modified Guild Home Video Logo makes an appearance on the UK VHS release of Cutthroat Island before the 1996 Carcolo Logo.
- However, it does appear before the Cinergi Pictures Entertainment logo on the UK trailer for Judge Dredd, which can be found on a few Guild VHS releases from the time.

Guild Film Distribution

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 ===Background===
 '''Guild Film Distribution''' was the theatrical division of [[Guild Home Video]].
+===1st Logo (1985-June 25, 1993)===
-===1st Logo (1985-1993)===
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+'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, {{color|orange}} bar segments fly in from the left and right of the screen, syncing with the music, while they sparkle and zoom out. Eventually, the bars start forming the Guild logo. When the logo is fully formed, "GUILD Film Distribution" in white and in the Belwe Bold BT font fades in below the logo.
-'''Visuals:''' Same as the 1985 [[Guild Home Video|home video counterpart]], but matted to widescreen, and "Film Distribution" also replaces "Home Video".
-'''Technique:''' Same as the home video counterpart.
+'''Technique:''' 2D computer animation.
+'''Audio:''' A synth note is held throughout, with a synth bass line (composed on a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer) that speeds up slightly near the end, followed by a synth fanfare in E♭ minor. A female chorus hums during this section, ending in them shouting "Go Guild!".
-'''Audio:''' Same as the home video counterpart.
 '''Audio Variant:''' In its last year of usage, it used a lush orchestral remix of the 1993 home video theme.
 '''Availability:'''
-* It appears on VHS releases of Guild's first cinema releases, such as ''Cliffhanger'', ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''The Fourth War'', ''Universal Soldier'' and ''Rambo III''.
+* Seen on VHS releases of Guild's first cinema releases, such as ''Cliffhanger'', ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''The Fourth War'', ''Universal Soldier'', and ''Rambo III''.
-* The later music variant was found on a trailer for ''Bad Lieutenant'', which appears on the Blu-ray release from Fabulous Films.
+* The later music variant was found on a trailer for ''Bad Lieutenant'', which can also be found on the Blu-ray release thereof from Fabulous Films.
-===2nd Logo (1993-1996)===
+===2nd Logo (1993-August 2, 1996)===
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+'''Visuals:''' Against a black background, there is a director's chair in a {{color|blue}} spotlight. The camera pans around the chair, and both parts of the Guild logo slide from both sides of the screen in a tilted position, then "{{color|gold|GUILD}}" appears underneath when the screen zooms into the chair.
-'''Visuals:''' Same as the 1993 home video counterpart, but matted to widescreen.
+'''Trivia:''' This is basically a modified version of the 1993 [[Guild Home Video]] logo. The footage of the director's chair is windowboxed and the end logo result is also more stretched than normal.
-'''Technique:''' Same as the home video counterpart.
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''Variant:''' A "windowboxed" version exists, appearing before the Cinergi Pictures logo on a UK trailer for ''Judge Dredd''.
+'''Audio:''' A mystical pan-flute tune, complete with a synth whoosh and an orchestra at the end. For trailers, normally silence.
-'''Audio:''' Same as the home video counterpart.
-'''Audio Variant:''' On some films, it may have used the previous logo's orchestral rendition of the home video theme.
 '''Audio Trivia:''' The music was composed using the Korg M1 workstation from 1988.
+'''Availability:''' It can be found on any of Guild's theatrical releases right until [[Chargeurs]]' demerger of [[Pathé]] in 1996.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on later Guild cinema releases of the era before the company started a merger with Pathé in 1996, such as ''James and the Giant Peach''; the home video counterpart appears on the video release of the film.
+* The modified Guild Home Video Logo makes an appearance on the UK VHS release of ''Cutthroat Island'' before the 1996 Carcolo Logo.
+** However, it does appear before the [[Cinergi Pictures Entertainment]] logo on the UK trailer for ''Judge Dredd'', which can be found on a few Guild VHS releases from the time.
 {{Chronology||[[Guild Pathé Cinema]]}}
 [[Category:British film logos]]
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