Showing posts with label title sequences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label title sequences. Show all posts
Title Sequence/Gif: Quatermass and the Pit
Title sequence for Quatermass and the Pit - without the title. Below's the title screen and another gif animation:
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The gif animations were made by myself, by the way.
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Animation: Title sequence for A Shot In The Dark
Michael Sporn Animation Splog gives us frame grabs for Friz Freleng's and David DePatie's title sequence for A Shot In The Dark - the second "Pink Panther movie". And here's their first and Oscar awarded short with the Pink Panther.
Nostalgia: The Persuaders!
The car race between Moore and Curtis in the first episode. This is how they meet. After this clip they will start a fight over how many olives goes into a Dry Martini. (Uploaded by Dansmoncafe)
"The Persuaders! is a British television series, which first aired in 1971 and 1972 in Britain's ITV and on the ABC Network in the United States. The series starred Tony Curtis, as Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore, as Lord Brett Sinclair, both millionaire international playboys, but from very different American and British backgrounds." (more from Wikipedia)
The show was a big fiasco in the States (they only showed 20 out of the 24 episodes) but it was a big success in many European countries. Moore had only signed up for one season so he could easily sneak off to doing Bond and Curtis, well honestly, his good days had already ended some time ago, hadn't they?
Maybe the fact that only one season was done the show managed to keep a high standard and thus in time creating the cult status which it holds for many. But of course then there was the fast cars, the glamorous chicks, the flashy settings, the witty dialogue, John Barry's outstanding theme music...
- The title sequence (YouTube)
- The intro scene from the first episode plus the title sequence (YouTube)
- About The Persuaders! on the Morning after website
- The show was called Snobbar som jobbar in Sweden (which means Snobs on the job or something like that), France: Amicalement votre, Denmark: De uheldige helte (meaning The Unlucky Heroes according to Dans Mon Café), Germany: Die 2, The Netherlands: De Versierders, Italy: Attenti a quei due
- A motion picture remake starring Steve Coogan and Ben Stiller is currently in the works.
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Ephemera: Volvo P1800 and other cars
Maybe you don't know who The Saint was and maybe you don't know that the car he drove, when he was played by Roger Moore in the TV show (1962-69), was a super-cool white Volvo P1800 (with licence plate ST1). You might not even know that PCL LinkDump has a number of nice links for photos, ephemera and brochures of Volvo P180o and other cars from around the world. But he does!
- In this episode trailer you'll briefly see the P1800 in action.
- Opening and closing title sequences for three different seasons of The Saint.
Video: Saul Bass title sequences
The great graphic designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) though having created many well-known logotypes and posters, is mostly know and remembered for his work with movie title sequences (IMDb). This is a collection of the few I found on YouTube. My thanks to those who uploaded them. If you find more or upload more please let me know.
"My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it."[1]Check this site out for great screenshots from other of Saul Bass' title sequences and this one for screenshots of other great titles.
Design: Förtexter designade av Saul Bass
Från Jorden runt på 80 dagar.
Titles Designed by Saul Bass
"Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer, but is best known for his design on motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, plus Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. His most famous title sequence is probably the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm."
Från Wikipedia
En annan avancerad site tillägnad Saul Bass och hans gärning. Där hittar man även denna möjlighet att själv få klippa den berömda duschscenen i Psycho.Filmaffisch till "The Man with the Golden Arm"
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