Logo descriptions by bigladiesman
Logo Pictures and Video courtesy of Eric S.


Background: IVS (Internacional Video Sistemas) was a video distributor based in Pamplona (Navarre), Spain. It was mainly devoted to the distribution of cartoons and movies for kids, tough they had an early cinema collection as well (for instance, some Valentino's films).

1st (known) Logo
(Mid 1980's)

Logo: TBA

FX: The logo flipping.

Cheesy Factor: The whole thing looks quite cheap.

Music/Sounds: A playful xylophone tune.

Availability: Fairly extinct; only seen on VHS's from the era.

Scare Factor: Low (though I remember being scared to death by it as a kid).



2nd Logo
(Late '80s-Early '90s)



Nicknames: "Sparkling Globe"; "Hey, mom, the moon's red and it has something written on it!", "Apocalypse"

Logo: On a gray space background, a rotating sparkling globe fades in. Just then, at the same time, a twisting filmreel showing some images from films shows up from the right as a rotating (faster than the globe) red sphere with white "ivs" written throughout comes from the left. The reel keeps twisting and flipping, moving from one side of the screen to another, as the sphere orbits the globe and zooms out to the center of the screen, totally covering it. Then two light blue streaks appear from the left and the right and merge, with a flash that causes the globe to disappear. The reel stops its movement in the center of the screen, fades out and a red TV tube-shaped "ivs" logo which was in it zooms out to form the finished logo (two streaks more appear behind it).

What's in a Reel: The reel contains four still pictures: The top one depicts a woman (Ingrid Bergman?) on a B/W film, the second one is the red IVS logo, the third is a cartoon boy (presumably Jim Hawkins) finding a treasure and the fourth is a view of a city (London?).

FX: All the flipping and twisting, which is all CGI.

Cheesy Factor: The CGI is very dated.

Music/Sounds: A rhythmic synth tune, which was the theme of the pilot of the show Press Your Luck, and was used in Thorn-EMI's Australian logo.

Availability: Extinct, but easy to find on Asterix cartoon tapes (on Spanish PAL tapes, that is).

Scare Factor: Medium to high; the music is cool, but the dated effects and the fact that this logo seems to depict some kind of armageddon can scare sensitive viewers.