The brilliant website www.artofthetitle.com put together this potted history of movie and TV credit sequences. It’s excellent stuff and features many of my favourites, including my pick for the best opening credits of all time, 1968’s ‘Bullitt’.
Kudos to Ian Albinson for this excellent whistle stop tour through the years. And very happy for ‘Scott Pilgrim’ to sneak in there at the end.
Enjoy and count as many as you’ve seen.
A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.
Featuring in order.
Intolerance,
Phantom of the Opera,
King Kong,
Modern Times,
My Man Godfrey,
Make Way For Tomorrow,
Citizen Kane,
The Maltese Falcon,
Gun Crazy,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
Lady in the Lake,
Fallen Angel,
The Thing,
Singing in the Rain,
The Man with the Golden Arm,
Anatomy of a Murder,
Psycho,
North by Northwest,
Vertigo,
Grand Prix,
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Dr. No,
The Pink Panther,
Goldfinger,
Dr. Strangelove,
Bullitt,
Barbarella,
Soylent Green,
Mean Streets,
Star Wars,
Saturday Night Fever,
Superman,
Alien,
Raging Bull,
The Terminator,
Brazil,
The Untouchables,
Do The Right Thing,
Forrest Gump,
The Naked Gun,
Cape Fear,
Reservoir Dogs,
Delicatessen,
Natural Born Killers,
Freaked,
Se7en,
The Island of Dr. Moreau,
Mimic,
Donnie Brasco,
Mission Impossible,
Dawn of the Dead,
Fight Club,
Catch Me If You Can,
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,
The Fall,
Casino Royale,
Six Feet Under,
Carnivale,
Dexter,
Mad Men,
Iron Man,
Juno,
The Kingdom,
Wall•E,
Sherlock Holmes,
Up In The Air,
Zombieland,
Scott Pilgrim vs the World,
Buried,
Robin Hood,
Machete,
The Social Network,
Enter The Void