United Film Company

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


(15 September 1949-12 March 1951)

Logo: On a sky background, we see the company's emblem: flags of various (and a few former) Arab countries standing on a filmstrip-like banner with the company name and a stylized sun over it. Superimposing the emblem, we see three texts in Arabic, handwritten in Ruq'ah script, meaning the company name, the name of its parent company between parentheses, and "presents".

Trivia:

  • The flags are from the 8 original member states of the Arab League, which were, respectively from top-to-bottom: the Kingdom of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Yemen, the Kingdom of Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine (note the white flag was made up to represent Palestine, since Palestine at the time was a British mandate, thus its official flag was the Union Jack) and Jordan.
  • The design of the flags were taken directly from a 1945 Egyptian postcard stamp about the establishment of the Arab League.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: A bombastic trumpet fanfare with a drumroll.

Music/Sounds Variants: In Fayrouz Hanem, the first part of the fanfare was ommitted.

Availability: Rare, this was seen on Ghazal Al Banat, Albatal and Fayrouz Hanem.

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