Pegasus Motion Pictures (Hong Kong/Singapore)

Background
After Cinema City (新藝城) closed down in early 1990s, one of its founders Raymond Wong (黃百鳴) set up Mandarin Films (東方電影) with remarkable productions like Dragon Tiger Gate (龍虎門) and Ip Man (葉問). Wong later sold Mandarin, using the proceeds to start up another label, Pegasus Motion Pictures (天馬電影), together with his son.

1st Logo (1991-1992)
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Logo: On a time lapse sequence of a sunrise over a river, a silver Tweety-like bird flies towards us and tilts a bit. The bird slides to the left of the screen and then throws some blue sparkly powder that form the text "Mandarin Films Limited" in a TNR font with fancy capital letters and the Chinese name in teal below. The capital M in "Mandarin" is in a Vivaldi-like font. The bird materializes wind streaks and sparkles and disappears through a whirlwind, as the company name zooms in to the middle, with the "M" flashing once.

Variant: A later version exists, where the white text has a drop shadow in order to make it stand out a bit more from the sunrise.

FX/SFX: The sunset footage, the bird flying and producing the logo, the logo zooming in and the "M" flashing.

Music/Sounds: A rising ominous synth tune with drums is heard at first. A cheerful piano tune is heard when the bird is seen, quickly-rising harp notes when the text appears, and then a cartoon-like trombone tune is heard.

Availability: Extremely rare. Seen on 90's movies such as Happy Ghost V, Daddy: Father: Papa, The Great Pretenders, Beyond's Diary, Lucky Encounter, while the later version appeared on Girls Without Tommorrow.

Editor's Note: Pretty odd all around, with the somewhat dramatic opening seguing into the more childish silver bird and music after it. The bird's animations are also rather janky. This could still be easily seen as a placeholder, though.

2nd Logo (1992-1999)
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Nicknames: "The Golden M", "The Sunrise II"

Logo: On a black background, a white flash appears below and a sun rises to illuminate an ocean. The sky becomes a white background and we zoom back into a golden rounded square tunnel. The tunnel turns green and we zoom out to reveal a green marble surface with filmstrip holes in a shadow, that the one of the holes we're emerged from the tunnel. The holes disappear and a golden curve falls on top of the marble. The curve gets drawn into the same Vivaldi-like "M" from the first logo, but in gold, and the logo zooms out to reveal the marble as either a rectangular slate with sprocket holes on their sides to form a filmstrip or just a square slate on a black background. The background fades to white and the following text, (earlier films) "MANDARIN FILMS LTD.", (later films) "MANDARIN FILMS DISTRIBUTION CO. LTD.", and (films developed by the Singapore division) "MANDARIN FILMS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.", appear with their Chinese translations. The lighting and color contrast of each version is also different.

FX/SFX: The sunrise, the zoomings, and the M getting drawn, pretty good CGI effects for 1992.

Music/Sounds: A majestic synthesized orchestral fanfare, starting off with woodwind instruments before seuging into a horn-driven piece. Sparkles are also heard when the text fades in, though sometimes it plays earlier. There exists low and high pitched versions of it.

Availability: Rare. Seen on Hong Kong films of the time.

Editor's Note: Basically a more thought-out version of the 1st logo, and much better for the time period.

3rd Logo (2000-2014)
S87FLp2Tc-4 Nicknames: "Flamin' 'M'", "The Golden M II"

Logo: On a black background, many flames fly around and when we get to a zooming out shot, the flames form the "M" from before. The "M" flashes and then turns green with a golden, glowing slate with filmstrip holes. Below is "MANDARIN FILMS DISTRIBUTION CO. LTD." and the Chinese translation on top of it. The logo shines and flames make the logo disappear.

FX/SFX: The flames. Decent animation for it's time.

Music/Sounds: A shining synth pad with burning noises all throughout.

Availability: Uncommon. Probably appears on newer movies made by the company.

Editor's Note: None.

1st Logo (2011-201?)


TBA.

2nd Logo (201?- )


TBA.