Draft:Rai/Continuity Bumpers

Credits

Descriptions by
DisneyInternationalFan

Video captures courtesy of
Il Mondo di Carosello

1st ID (1976?-1979?)

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ID: On a black and white striped background, a white streak comes in and turns into four (five in the first variant) different objects, before exiting. Starting in 1978, the background is white, the streak and objects it turns into are colored and the objects are only animals.

Variants:

• Black and White:
  • Beginning: Flower, lion, cat, dice, letter "P" (short for "pubblicità"). Ending: Wind-up chicken, boat, toucan, peacock.
  • Beginning: Moose, flower pot with a face, rocking horse, letter "P" (short for "pubblicità"). Ending: Hedgehog, iron, donkey, ball.
  • Beginning: Camel, kettle, rooster, letter "P" (short for "pubblicità"). Ending: Drum, train, whale, ball.
• Color:
  • Beginning: Rooster, fox, black swan, bee (on a flower). Ending: Squirrel, toucan, tiger, duck.
  • Beginning: Armadillo, elephant, penguin, ostrich. Ending: Parakeet, snail, mandrill, dove.

FX/SFX: The morphing.

Music/Sounds: A string theme with four harp notes, which segue into an arpeggio. The theme was later shortened to the first four notes.

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: This bumper, while not as popular as others, is still liked due to its creativity.

2nd ID (1978-January 1980)

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ID: On a dark blue background, we see a spinning shape consisting of multiple rectangles with an open end attached to one point zoom and spin in from the right side of the screen while cycling through different colors. This animation repeats with a similar shape that has fewer rectangles that flies in from the left side of the screen and once more with the same shape but this time zooming in from the center of the screen. After this shape disappears, a yellow spiral symbol with a "p"-like shape embedded inside quickly zooms in from the center of the screen.

FX/SFX: The shape spinning and moving, the symbol zooming in. 2D animation possibly done by a computer.

Music/Sounds: A 29-note fanfare.

Availability: Extinct.

3rd ID (July 1st, 1978-May 18, 1980)

ID: We fade in from black to see the screen covered in squares, colored in various shades of blue, green and yellow, which then shuffle to form a vertically-rotating cube with faces that rotate to reveal that they make up a picture of a flowering tree with a warmly-colored bird of paradise perched on top of it near a small hill. The bird then flies away off the tree before the cube splits into the small squares we saw before, which then scramble to fill the screen again.

FX/SFX: 2D animation, likely specifically cutout animation.

Music/Sounds: An approximately 23-note ditty likely played with pizzicato tones.

Availability: Extinct.

4th ID (October 4, 1979-December 26, 1983)

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ID: On a white background, a pomegranate swings from right to left, revealing a picture of a pomegranate tree that gradually zooms in the next two times the pomegranate swings by until we can see a close-up of one of the pomegranates on the tree. The camera then zooms in the pomegranate.

Closing Variant: The pomegranate swings three times before stopping in the middle of the screen and splitting in two, with a seed falling in front of the right half.

FX/SFX: The swinging pomegranate, the picture, the picture zooming in.

Music/Sounds: A light four-note synth ditty, with an arpeggio at the end. The end version has it play in a different pitch.

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: This bumper is very well-liked.

5th ID (September 17, 1979-October 31, 1986)

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ID: On a white background, a walnut zooms in. When it stops, it opens and releases various shapes of different colors.

Variants: Depending on the variant, the shapes are either butterflies, flowers or balloons.

Closing Variant: We see the walnut already open. Then, the shapes come back inside the walnut, which zooms out.

FX/SFX: The walnut zooming and opening, the shapes flying out.

Music/Sounds: A twelve-note synth flute-like theme, with a lighter flute sound when the walnut opens.

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: This bumper is one of the most well-remembered Rai bumpers.

6th ID (November 11, 1979-December 28, 1988)

ID: On a black background, a blue-white circular, kaleidoscope-like pattern with a red circle in its center draws itself outwards, starting from the center of the screen. After it covers the screen, it disappears via a wiping effect starting from the center.

Closing Variant: The same animation from the opening plays again, but with a different pattern that lacks the red circle.

FX/SFX: Done entirely in 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A drumbeat accompanied by a 17-note flute theme playing throughout.

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: Another fondly remembered bumper, especially thanks to its music.

7th ID (November 1979-July 1986)

ID: On a black background, we see a colorful, abstract stained glass pattern change into different shapes and getting smaller before revealing that it was made from a single illustration of a butterfly. Multiple glowing copies of the butterfly then fly out from it.

Variant: One variant shows a differently-colored butterfly and pattern, and only the copies of the butterfly appear at the end, though they do not glow.

FX/SFX: 2D animation, possibly done by a computer.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized bell and synthesizer tune.

Availability: Extinct.

8th ID (November 30, 1979-June 4, 1983)

ID: TBA

FX/SFX: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Legacy: This bumper is a favorite of many.

9th ID (1981-1984)

ID: On a dark, blue-grey background with ripples, we see what appears to be an embroidery pattern of flowers that come in red and white inside of a black and gold vase be formed by a wiping effect from bottom-to-top.

Variants: There is a mid variant that shows two red, drooping flowers being formed in the same manner from top to bottom.

Closing Variant: The closing variant combines the opening ID and the mid variant.

FX/SFX: The flower pot wiping in.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

10th ID (November 23, 1978-July 19, 1986)

ID: On a pink-black gradient background, we a red book with white pages open up to reveal bushes, various flowers and a fly amanita mushroom that pop up like a pop-up book. A pink butterfly and blue dragonfly then fly out of the book before we fade to black.

Closing Variant: The closing variant shows the book closing and all the foliage inside flattening down as it does so, and the same butterfly from earlier lands on the edge of the book. The wall is also orange.

FX/SFX: The book opening and the insects flying out. 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

11th ID (1982-198?)

ID: On a black background, we see a rainbow zooming down to the middle of the screen. It then zooms up to the right.

FX/SFX: The square zooming.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.