Nordisk Film Logo History

"Nordisk Film Logo History (Updated)" compiled by TR3X Productions, 06/06/2026. Celebrating 10 years of logo content on this channel since 04/06/16! Please note: This compilation, like all others on this channel, was uploaded for non-commercial purposes. Nordisk Film A/S (Nordic Film) was founded by film producer and director Ole Olsen on 14th November 1906, the name originally being 'Ole Olsen Filmfabrik' (Ole Olsen's Film Factory) until the film studio adopted its current name shortly afterwards. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordisk Film had become well-known enough by 1908 to open international branches in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA for example, although the latter (known as the Great Northern Film Company) only lasted for a year. Some of their well-known movies from the silent era were Atlantis (1913) and Præsidenten (The President) (1919), and the former was their "most watched film" at the time as well as being Denmark's first multireel feature film; it also featured an assistant director to August Blom called Mihály Kertész, later to be known as Michael Curtiz who directed many hit films of Hollywood's Golden Age, e.g. Casablanca. The 1920s was a difficult time for Nordisk Film, as Ole Olsen left the company in 1924, the company entered into liquidation in 1928, and their international branches had long closed by then. Carl Bauder, a shareholder of Nordisk Film since 1926, took over the film studio in 1929, and as the 1930s arrived, Nordisk had begun using the Petersen & Poulsen sound-system for their films, an early example being the 1931 film 'Præsten i Vejlby' (The Vicar of Vejlby), the first feature-length sound film with Danish dialogue. During the mid-1950s, Nordisk Film started to release their films in colour, and the first was Kispus in 1956, shortly followed by Qivitoq which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in said year. Both films were directed by Erik Balling, who worked for the company from 1946-84 and co-created the popular comedy series The Olsen Gang, fourteen films of which were made during 1968-81 and 1998 (Erik directed the first thirteen films). He also directed and co-wrote the TV series Matador from 1978-82, a few years before Nordisk Film launched their own TV subsidiary in 1984 (I might do a video on Nordisk Film TV in the future). The Egmont Group bought Nordisk Film in 1992, although they didn't appear on their on-screen logos until 1997, which was the first Nordisk Film logo to feature a polar bear animated with CGI, along with being the first to feature the animal roaring! Egmont still owns the company to this day, and the "We bring stories to life" tagline was first used on Nordisk's next logo with the CGI polar bear, created in 2005 that also introduced a revamped print logo. Since Nordisk Film celebrated their centennial anniversary in 2006, they have continued to release many films along with distributing American films to Denmark and Scandinavia, e.g. Sisu (2022) and The Crow (2024). They are the fourth oldest film company in the world that is still going, the others being Gaumont, Pathé and Titanus, and according to their 'Our History' page on their website, their film studios in Valby, Copenhagen, is "home to the world's continuously operating film studio." An image of their studios from said webpage can be seen during the '5th logo (c. 1918-20)' timestamp. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:03 1st logo (1907-20) 0:19 2nd logo (circa 1908-19) 0:51 3rd logo (c. 1916-25) 0:56 4th logo (1917) 1:06 5th logo (c. 1918-20) 1:49 6th logo (1920-22) 1:56 7th logo (1922-61) 5:35 8th logo (1922) 5:38 9th logo (1951-66) 6:22 10th logo (1962-79; 01, 1962-72) 7:06 10th logo (1962-79; 02, 1970-77) 7:34 10th logo (1962-79; 03, 1973) 7:40 10th logo (1962-79; 04, 1974) 7:49 10th logo (1962-79; 05, 1975-79) 8:03 11th logo (c. 1976-97) 9:20 12th logo (1981) 9:33 13th logo (c. 1987-97) 9:44 14th logo (1996) 9:56 15th logo (1997-2004) 11:13 16th logo (2004-05) 11:24 17th logo (2005-12; part one) 12:42 Gore/jumpscare warning 13:03 17th logo (2005-12; part two) 16:16 18th logo (2010-20; part one) 16:58 Gore warning 17:08 18th logo (2010-20; part two) 18:55 19th logo (2020-present) 20:48 Credits -TR3X