The ident comes from the partnership between Canadian studio Cinar and Spanish producer BRB International in the early 1980s, around 1983. It was attached to co-productions distributed internationally, which is why many viewers outside Canada and Spain remember it from the David the Gnome broadcasts. As home recordings and cartoon rips moved online, the short logo theme was clipped and shared on its own by collectors of classic television idents. It survives today less as company branding and more as a compact nostalgia cue for eighties children's programming.
About this sound
The Cinar BRB intro from 1983 is a short studio logo theme heard on David the Gnome, used for nostalgic TV idents and retro cartoon edits now.
This is the brief musical ident that played over the Cinar and BRB International partnership logo in the early 1980s. The sound is a bright, cheerful orchestral fanfare with a gentle, storybook feel, lasting only a few seconds before fading into the programme. It signals the start of a classic children's cartoon and instantly places the viewer in a slower era of Saturday morning television. For many listeners the little flourish triggers strong nostalgia, because it was heard at the beginning of imported animated series rather than as a standalone song on its own.
