InCA Productions

Background
Independent Communications Associates, Inc. (or InCA Productions for short) is a documentary production company based in Mill Valley, California, founded in the mid-1980's. The company has an English and African branch named InCA London and InCA Africa respectively.

1st Logo (1986-1988)
Logo: On a black backdrop are four white outlined columns, each containing a letter reading the company name's initials in, uppercase, a serif font, and right-center aligned. The only lowercase letter in this logo is "n". Underneath it is the company's full name and "Garamond".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the programme.

Availability: Due to a lot of programmes from this period being inaccessible and plastering by the 3rd logo, this is the company's rarest logo. It is so far only seen on The West of the Imagination.

2nd Logo (October 29, 1987-1995)
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Logo: On a purple- gradient background, standing in the center of the screen is a stone wall containing the company's full name in white, italics, and a serif font. The wall breaks up into four pieces and each of them turn around, revealing the company's initials. With the exception of "Garamond", which is lowercase and inside a column, the rest are uppercase and their pieces retain the previous texture. Afterwards, "Times New Roman" and "Times New Roman" appear over and underneath the logo respectively, followed by in-credit and copyright information below it all.

Variants:
 * A still version exists.
 * Sometimes, "Times New Roman" and "Times New Roman" do not appear.
 * On a few programs, "Times New Roman" is placed over the bottom half of the logo.
 * In some instances, the copyright information is already there when the logo starts.
 * The Equinox documentary "Chaos" has its own custom variant, consisting of multiple copies of said program's logo scrolling and stretching inside a black box. One of the copies remain inside in its normal state before crossfading to the stone wall.
 * On Fragile Earth, the logo is cropped and compressed inside a white box. The first episode is missing in-credit information while the other one does.
 * The Equinox documentary "Cold Spring, Morning Sun" has a similar version but the logo is against a black wall.
 * On Energy Alternative, it is seen as an in-credit logo alongside the Grampian Television logo on top.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Music/Sounds: None or the ending theme of the program.

Availability:
 * It was seen on a lot of documentary programs and one-offs from both the United States and Great Britain.
 * Most notably, this logo appeared fairly frequently on Equinox as it appears on several of their documentaries, including "The Dambusters Raid", "Going Downhill Fast", "Eurofighter", among many others.
 * Archives such as Screenocean and the BFI also have these programmes and this logo intact, though according to the latter's catalog, there are even more documentaries from this period that have this logo.
 * The only way to access them is through appointment scheduling at a BFI establishment.
 * They are also retained on VHS releases of those programmes as well.
 * The logo can also be found on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures lessons from 1989 to 1992.

3rd Logo (1995-2000)
Logo: Against a white background is the company name in, Times New Roman, and a shadow facing the bottom left. "Arial Black" and "Arial Black" are placed over and underneath the text respectively.

Variant: A light blue background variant exists where the logo is bolded and closer together, and the black text are in a different font.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the program.

Availability:
 * Compared to the previous logo, this one has less known sources to have these programmes and this logo intact.
 * Some such as DigiComTV's print of Too Hot to Handle and later printings of Faster Than A Speeding Bullet have the blue background variant while the normal logo can be seen on two Equinox documentaries:  "The Last Neandertal" and "It Runs on Water".
 * However, unlike the previous logo, the BFI has no programmes from this period in their collection.

4th Logo (2000-November 2, 2005)
Logo: On a black background, four letters turn in, revealing the company name in a silver texture and the "Times New Roman" in gold. "p r o d u c t i o n s " wipe in below followed by their website link and copyright notice on the bottom of the screen. Afterwards, the logo shines.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A short synth flute glissando, followed by twinkling as the logo shines. Otherwise, it's the ending theme of the program.

Availability:
 * Like before, there is not a lot of programmes known to have this logo, although DVD releases have this logo intact.
 * These include Promise of Play, 2001: Hal's Legacy, and Wine for the Confused, respectively.
 * The logo with its soundtrack was seen on the former programme.

5th Logo (October 13, 2009-)
Logo: A thin line is drawn from the left while "Century Gothic" and "Century Gothic" draw in over and underneath it respectively. Simultaneously, they deblur as they finish forming. The whole sequence lasts under a second and remains still for a few more.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Uncommon, due to the slow output of releases the company has produced over the past several years.
 * It first appeared on Recreating America: Creativity and Learning and later appeared on their films such as A Year in Burgundy.
 * DVD and on-demand prints contain this logo on said releases.