Rai (Break Bumpers)

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.

Technique: 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.

2nd ID (January 4, 1977-May 7, 1979)
ID: On a black background, a white line circles around. One second later, the line fades to a pinwheel shape in a circle which spins (similar to API's logo), then zooms in and leaves the screen.

Closing Variant: The same animation from the opening plays in reverse.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

3rd ID (1978-October 1986)
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.

Technique: 2D animation possibly done by a computer.

Music/Sounds: A classical 29-note synth fanfare.

Availability: Extinct.

4th ID (July 1st, 1978-1988)
ID: We fade in from black to see the screen covered in squares, colored in various shades of, 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.

Technique: Cutout animation.

Music/Sounds: An approximately 23-note pizzicato tune.

Availability: Extinct.

5th ID (October 4, 1979-December 26, 1983)
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.

Technique: Cel animation.

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.

6th ID (September 17, 1979-October 31, 1986)
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.

Technique: Cel animation.

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

Availability: Extinct.

7th ID (November 11, 1979-December 28, 1988)
ID: On a black background, a -white circular, kaleidoscope-like pattern with a 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.

Technique: Cel animation.

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

Availability: Extinct.

8th 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.

Technique: Likely 2D computer animation.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized bell and synthesizer tune.

Availability: Extinct.

9th ID (November 30, 1979-June 4, 1983)
ID: TBA

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A whimsical, cartoonish-sounding ditty with a dinging sound at the end.

Availability: Extinct.

10th ID (1981-1987)
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.

Technique: Stop-motion.

Music/Sounds: A mellow clarinet and oboe tune accompanied by a harp.

Availability: Extinct.

11th ID (November 23, 1978-July 19, 1986)
ID: On a -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.

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: Another clarinet and oboe tune accompanied by a synth harpsichord.

Availability: Extinct.

12th ID (May 1981-September 1984)
ID: TBA

Technique: Stop-motion.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

13th ID (1981-1987?)
ID: TBA

Variant: A short version introduced in 1982 exists.

Technique: Likely a mix of cel animation and scanimate animation.

Music/Sounds: A rising synth tune.

Availability: Extinct.

14th ID (October 28, 1981-December 1st, 1984)
ID: TBA

Technique: Early CGI, though the droplets are 2D.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

15th ID (1982-198?)
ID: On a black background, we see a rainbow zooming down from the right to the middle of the screen. It then zooms up to the left.

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: A fast-paced, whimsical synth ditty.

Availability: Extinct.

16th ID (1982-1986?)
ID: TBA

Technique: Stop-motion.

Music/Sounds: A 6-note piano tune.

Availability: Extinct.

17th ID (July 1982-May 1987)
ID: TBA

Variant: An alternate version of this ident was introduced in March 1984.

Technique: Likely stop-motion.

Music/Sounds: A whimsical, synthesized pizzicato and triangle tune.

Availability: Extinct.

18th ID (1982-1988?)
ID: TBA

Technique: Traditional animation.

Music/Sounds: Same as the short version of the 13th ID.

Availability: Extinct.