Millar Gough Ink

''This article is about a real television and film production studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. For a fictionalized production studio, see Millar/Gough Ink.''

Background
Millar/Gough Ink is an American film and television production studio/vanity card of Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Logo: In an office setting, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the company name in Impact,, and a stacked format, all in uppercase letters. "INK" has the bottom half in white. A split-second before the logo ends, a sledgehammer (which can be seen coming down in the bottle's reflection if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and hits the bottle's lid, causing the orange red ink to spread everywhere, including the black label getting ripped apart and covering up the whole screen.

Variants:


 * The logo appears in both fullscreen and widescreen formats.
 * Starting with Smallville, the animation is noticeably slow.
 * Starting with some prints of television series, the logo is shown in widescreen.
 * On The Strip, the animation is noticeably a little faster.

Technique: All live-action.

Music/Sounds: Depending on the variant:


 * 1999-2000: The closing theme of the show before the splattering sound.
 * 2001-2002: Just a sound of a bottle breaking.
 * Early 2002: An odd three-note piano tune.
 * Late 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is not heard.
 * The CW airings of Smallville use a generic theme and a voice over.

Availability: Common. First seen on The Strip and was later seen on Smallville, the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman and the 2011 revival of Charlie's Angels.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right is a beaker with a big black water-drop in it. Inside the water-drop is "INK".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands, The Shannara Chronicles (based on the book trilogy by Terry Brooks) and Wednesday (a spin off to Tim Burton's Addams Family).