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From: jay@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Great opening and closing film credits
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 09:48:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 09:48:20 1985
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Reply-To: jay@umd5.UUCP (Jay Elvove)
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I think that my favorite credit sequence is the one that opens "The Stunt
Man" which makes plain very quickly that we are about to be subjected
to a very strange and wonderful film.  I wish I'd seen it more recently
so I could be more specific.

Other memorable sequences are those used by Alfred Hitchcock to open
"North By Northwest", "Psycho", "Vertigo" and "The Birds", all of which
were designed (I'm pretty sure) by graphics artist Saul Bass (who also
did the credits for "Anatomy of a Murder".

One footnote, the opening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (and its sequel but
to less effect) nicely cross-fades the Paramount logo with a
strikingly similar real-life mountain.  After all, fantasy and reality
aren't really so far apart.
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Jay Elvove       ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay