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Films Incorporated was a 16mm film supplier and home video company based in Chicago, Illinois that distributed a variety of educational films for showing in school classrooms. They could've been founded as early as 1927. Later they were folded under Public Media Incorporated (PMI), being a subsidiary. The company shut down in the early 1990s.

'''Logo:''' The logo starts off at a screen saying "Distributed by" then fading into a screen with text saying: "Films Incorporated" at the top left of the screen with the logo glittering everywhere on the screen, at the bottom left "New York", "Los Angeles", "Chicago", There is then a star that appears between "New York "Dallas and Atlanta" appear at the same time which forms a star between the two, finally "Portland" appears forming a star between that and "Los Angeles".

'''Logo:''' Just an abstract, bold, dark blue "f" next to a white "i" on a tan background that looks like it is cross-stitched. A line also appears below to form "films incorporated" along with "presents" wiping in, both with a indigo colored font.

*There's a variant were the background is not cross-stitched.

'''Logo:''' On a blue, burgundy, or black background (it depends on the film deterioration), we see a white square zooming in. Then it spins around with a residue-trailing effect. The squares stop in the middle of the screen, changing into 2 squares, colors changing throughout. Then the 2 squares become outlined in white, and transforms into "fi", with part of the "f" red, while the rest of the lettering is white. The "f" extends as the dot of the "i". The text "A FILMS INCORPORATED PRESENTATION" in white with "FILMS INCORPORATED" bigger then the others, wipes in from the left under it.

'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. The movie library of this now-defunct company is now distributed by several other companies. Last seen on ''Ten Seconds That Shook the World'' on AT&T U-verse Screen Pack, but it is no longer available. Also seen on ''The Red Balloon'' and ''Sad Song of Yellow Skin''. You can find this fairly easily on old PBS programs on the Internet Archive, mainly those originally presented by WNET. The B&W variant was found on the Argentinian film ''Piel de Verano''. The blue BBC variant was seen on a tape of ''España Viva''. Don't expect to see this on Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment's releases of films in their library, including ''Breaker Morant''.

'''Variants:''' The background colours can range from black to different shades of blue/green. The text can be white, yellow or orange.