Logo (1981 - 1987)
Logo (1994)
Logo[]
1st logo (June 12, 1981-1987)[]
Over a dark sky with yellow clouds, thunderbolts suddenly appear. Then, on a black background, we see a strange thing (possibly a space background) turning to the right to see barely a picture of a white horse (that looks like a lankan perriot) with a big, flat rectangle (pedestal) and two semicircles in the top of the pedestal. It zooms out and rotates rapidly to see clearly which happened earlier, but with the horses' details, which on his mouth imposes a line-thing, the text "ISMAIL" in the top and "PRODUCTION" in the bottom, all blue and with their first letters being red and some Urdu script in the two semicircles.
2nd logo (October 14, 1994)[]
On a black background with red smoke, there's a statue of a horse up close. The camera zooms our and the image (outside of the smoke) brightens. The statue is in gray, and is around a curve with yellow stars on the ends. Inside the curve is the company name, "ISMAIL" on the left and "PRODUCTION" on the right. In the middle is the entire company name in Urdu. Ismail Productions in English and Urdu. The camera zooms out and brightens the statue. Flowers are seen around the statue, with some green and blue smoke at the top of the screen.
Music/Sounds[]
1st logo[]
A spooky sounding tune is heard, followed by rumbles.
Music/Sounds Variants[]
- On Athra Puttar (where the logo was seen for the first time), the tune is replaced with a loud rumble, and two extremely loud thunderclaps at the beginning and a discordant stock piece plays throughout the logo.
- On Duniya, same as the Athra Puttar variant, but we only hear the loud rumble and the thunderclaps.
2nd logo[]
The audio from the Duniya variant of the previous logo.
Scare Factor[]
1st logo[]
- Regular Variant: Nightmare. The darkness, rapid pace, in addition of the thunderstorm and ominous jingle (and also the rumbles) would definitely scare a lot of people.
- Athra Puttar Variant: High to nightmare. It's slightly tamer than the regular variant, given that the dark jingle isn't in use. The visuals are still there though, with the addition of the thunderstorm and the loud thunder and inharmonious music. It will still scare a lot of people.
- Duniya Variant: Medium to nightmare. It's tamer without the music and storm, but the darkness and rapid pace are still there, along with the loud thunder from the Athra Puttar variant.
2nd logo[]
Medium to high. The thunder sounds are still scary, and the up-close at the beginning may be off-putting to many. Otherwise, this is tamer and brighter than the last logo.
Trivia[]
The versions with the thunderclaps are stock, since their from the BBC sound effect library. The same thunder is heard in the Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia and Lightning Video logos. You can even hear snippets of the thunder on the 101 Dalmatian Street episodes "Walkies on the Wild Side" and "Flea-Mageddon".