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Great Opening Credits

Started by garnish, November 04, 2018, 09:42:15 PM

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Twed

Short Circuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdtRnu9ggc

Wowee. It could be a standalone short/music video/art piece.

greenman

Part of the Guttenberg Collection.

Twed


Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Twed on November 09, 2018, 03:31:43 PM
Short Circuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdtRnu9ggc

Wowee. It could be a standalone short/music video/art piece.

That is superb. Never seen that before even though I have watched the movie a couple of times. One of those Sunday afternoon films that you flip channels to ten minutes into it.

This seems quite progressive for a half a century ago. I wish someone would put out a compilation of 60's/70s Disney live action movie title tracks.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=vAMnLlF0GWk


Avril Lavigne

Quote from: Twed on November 09, 2018, 03:31:43 PM
Short Circuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdtRnu9ggc

Wowee. It could be a standalone short/music video/art piece.

Very nice! I haven't seen Short Circuit since I was about 6 so I don't remember any of this, but that music only needs a drum track and a yelping Mark Mothersbaugh to sound like a lost Devo tune.


thraxx


rasta-spouse

Pinter's the Lover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntW_XSNb1_s

I like the lo-fi and the bit with the hands.

EOLAN

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The most simplistic and cheap of the credits with great humour and playing with the form thrown in. Also, the music does set you up for the time period.

New Jack

Quote from: thraxx on November 09, 2018, 08:49:53 PM
This is the best opening credits ever.  It's perfect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJjn9Vt7k1Q


Everything should open with those credits. Bailiffs. The Christmas Apprentice. James Martin's Saturday Morning.

Brundle-Fly



Mr Banlon


zomgmouse


Ambient Sheep

A Zed and Two Noughts

Paris, Texas

mothman

In Harm's Way - another belter from Bass - would be a great contender. If it wasn't actually the end credits. No idea what happened there. These days, it happens all the time but I wonder if this is the earliest example of the phenomenon?

Also bonus shot of Patricia Neal, who I've always found insanely fucking hot ever since I saw Hud.

garnish

Quote from: New Jack on November 10, 2018, 11:46:20 AM
Everything should open with those credits. Bailiffs. The Christmas Apprentice. James Martin's Saturday Morning.

Funnily enough, Armando Iannucci's spoof of the Andrew Marr show opening credits wasn't far off that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOFaxvEsLo

Edit - that clip isn't the one that appeared on Time Trumpet, it's something else.  The one I was thinking of had Marr ziplining off a building.

Keebleman

Quote from: mothman on November 11, 2018, 10:51:23 AM
In Harm's Way - another belter from Bass - would be a great contender. If it wasn't actually the end credits. No idea what happened there. These days, it happens all the time but I wonder if this is the earliest example of the phenomenon?


Earliest example of all-credits-at-the-end is, I think, Citizen Kane.

An amusing and unique variation from the same year is the superb and underappreciated The Devil and Daniel Webster aka All That Money Can Buy.  The film starts with two lists of names, one headed In Front of the Camera and the other In Back of the Camera.  At the end the names are listed again, this time with their respective characters or jobs.

The director was William Dierterle, whose Portrait of Jennie from 1948 is another early example of all credits being left to the end.

Keebleman

Quote from: Keebleman on November 05, 2018, 12:04:41 AM
The opening credits to Superman are my favourite. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1aQx9hTaE

Richard Donner apparently jerks off to this at least once a day.  At any rate I would if I was him.

The greatest credit sequence of all time was first shown 40 years ago today!

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Keebleman on December 10, 2018, 06:09:30 PM
The greatest credit sequence of all time was first shown 40 years ago today!

Interesting that Christopher Reeve gets third billing under Brando and Hackman. Agents there.

Keebleman

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on December 11, 2018, 01:40:49 PM
Interesting that Christopher Reeve gets third billing under Brando and Hackman. Agents there.

And below the title too!  It was similar in Lawrence of Arabia: all the established stars were credited first, and then O'Toole was given one of those patronising 'and introducing' credits.  It took me years to notice that all main acting credits after Reeve are listed alphabetically, which is why Margot Kidder doesn't appear until quite a way down the list.

Also note that Jack O'Halloran, scarcely a household name then or since, gets a full-screen credit for a performance that comprises standing in one spot for a minute or so and no dialogue.