Titles Sequences

Why not start a thread. I found this, a neat video:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/03/14/a-brief-history-of-title-design/

Nice montage, though it missed out SPARTACUS, 2001, and about a dozen others.

Don't see what's so special about "The Social Network" or "Machete".

Speaking of title sequences, GAMES (1967) has a great one:

Alien and Blade Runner are two of the most influential title credit sequences.

Thats one snazzy vid - loving the inclusions of FALLEN ANGEL and ANATOMY OF A MURDER. 8)

Spider-Man.
Mission Impossible 2. A disapointed because it is only 30 seconds, but the rest is great. Also it isn't the real title start in my opnion, this already happend with the opeing of the movie.
The Lion King (Circle of Life)

The cinema experience with above movies give it something extra and helps it be 3 of my favorite movies.

Also a special credit for the first Mission Impossible.

Top notch montage, although I would've hoped seen T2 there as well.

My all-time favorite title sequence.

I saw Kim Novak at the NFT (now BFI) in around 1997 or 98 and she said she had wanted to do the title sequence herself, but that the studio and Hitchcock couldn't agree a fee. Novak hated the girl Hitch chose instead because she had a mole...

One of my favourites. Fine, overlooked film, with a socio-political conscience (yet without worthiness) and one mad score. Highly influential. Misunderstood by most critics.

Sharky wrote:

One of my favourites. Fine, overlooked film, with a socio-political conscience (yet without worthiness) and one mad score. Highly influential. Misunderstood by most critics.

Hey, isn't that a TRANSFORMERS movie?

Another of my favourite title sequences is from the forgotten 1964 thriller LADY IN A CAGE (banned in the UK). Note the nerve jangling serial score from Paul Glass, and the Saul Bass inspired modernist animation. I can't find who did the titles, though. They're very effective.

With all the retro-digital titles of the last decade (i.e. KISS KISS BANG BANG, CASINO ROYALE, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN etc.), I'd love to this more avant-garde approach resurrected.

does anyone know when they started putting credits at the end of a film?

there was a time when it was at the beginning.

now it seems, most of the time, we are lucky to just get a title of the movie in the beginning.

j7wild wrote:

does anyone know when they started putting credits at the end of a film?

there was a time when it was at the beginning.

now it seems, most of the time, we are lucky to just get a title of the movie in the beginning.

You're right, I think. It's been reversed.

Until somewhere in the late 70s (probably STAR WARS) films had short end credits. Now it's the opposite.

well, it's not just the length of the credit

the part:

XYZ Picture presents

a Big Director Film

in association with Rogue Movies

George Looney

in

Acme Action Film

all that is in the back now

so in essence, in the end credits, the main actors names are listed twice

Sharky wrote:

j7wild wrote:

does anyone know when they started putting credits at the end of a film?

there was a time when it was at the beginning.

now it seems, most of the time, we are lucky to just get a title of the movie in the beginning.

You're right, I think. It's been reversed.

Until somewhere in the late 70s (probably STAR WARS) films had short end credits. Now it's the opposite.

Doesn't Coppola claim credit for bringing about the long end credits?

2001 predates Coppola's long end credits, unless Finian's Rainbow is something special in its last reel.

What was the first major film to show the title and then skip straight to the story? I can only think of THE GODFATHER in 1972.

EDIT: Scratch that, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in 1971. Anything before that?

EDIT: Missed trevanian's post, yeah it must be 2001.

According to Wikipedia:

Two of the first major films to contain extensive closing credits - but almost no opening credits - were the blockbusters Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and West Side Story (1961). West Side Story showed only the title at the beginning of the film, and Around the World in Eighty Days, like many films today, had no opening credits at all.

In the spirit of the season:

Makeshift Python wrote:

What was the first major film to show the title and then skip straight to the story?.

Doesn't Kane essentially do that?

3 of my favourites from the late 60s.