What films & Tv shows have animated introduction? Any cases of the reverse? At all?

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#1

From the New Thread.

Well, if you insist. :smiley:

I went down to the Sound Garden, a great music store in Fells’ Point, and what did I see in the One dollar bin? A copy of “The truth about Charlie”, a remake of “Charade”. The Dvd also included the original film, staring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, etc. (Insert three paragraphs of talk about the movies’ artistic virtues here.)

::Real OP starts here::
Anyway, the title sequence was made up of artistic looking animated lines, swirling about, forming mazes, etc. Interesting.

Also, on the PBS Tv show, Mystery, illustrator Edward Gorey animated the titles. Very cool. Anyone have any other examples? It doesn’t matter how short they are. Also, I know this is not so likely, but is there any animated programs out there, of any country of origin, that has a live-action introduction?

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#2

Film:

Grease

TV:

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine

#3

A few here.

#4

TV:

How could I forget “My Three Sons”?

#5

I Dream of Jeannie
Lost in Space (the original TV version (hereafter known as totvv)
Bewitched (totvv)
The Honeymooners (kind of)
The first season of The Drew Carey Show

#6

Huh, I never saw “My Three Sons” Thanks for mentioning it, but do you, or someone else, care to summarize? Is is off topic, true, but I would like to hear.

#7

Basically, it consists of three pairs of animated shoes (at the ends of animated legs, not all by themselves) tapping to the theme music, while a pair of animated hands unfolds and refolds the title cards (i.e., “starring Fred MacMurray”, etc.)

#8

Here’s a still image from the opening sequence.

#9

This is stretch, but Frasier’s opening is a brief line drawing of the Seattle skyline with something happening over it (helicopter, fireworks, etc).

#10

The film Christmas Vacation has an animated introduction featuring Santa Claus trying to get into a house and meeting all kinds of misfortune.

A Series of Unfortunate Events has a fake-out stop-action-ish movie called The Littlest Elf at the beginning.

And IIRC, Catch Me If You Can had some pretty nifty animated opening credits.

#11

Cool, thanks guys. :smiley:

#12

And here’s one that actually works…

#13

The “Pink Panther” movies.

The “Partridge Family” TV show.

The movie “Mallrats” has some nifty comic book covers for it’s credit sequence, but I don’t know if that counts.

#14

First thing that came to mind was My Favorite Martian.

How about Yes, Minister? Not animated in the sense that the figures move, but the Gerald Scarfe caricatures “draw themselves” onscreen.

#15

First thing that came to mind was My Favorite Martian.

How about Yes, Minister? Not animated in the sense that the figures move, but the Gerald Scarfe caricatures “draw themselves” onscreen.

#16

The “Pink Panther” movies.

The “Partridge Family” TV show.

The movie “Mallrats” has some nifty comic book covers for its credit sequence, but I don’t know if that counts.

#17

The Pink Panther and its sequels. The Pink Panther animated titles were so popular, a series of short subjects was rushed into production starring the character. Opening sequence directed by Friz Freling.

It’s A Mad[sup]4[/sup] World (I just don’t feel like typing out all those “mads”). Opening sequence directed by Saul Bass, possibly the king of unique opening titles, many animated.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Joe Dante is such a fan of the Looney Tunes characters, he makes references to them in all of his films, including this one. The regular Warner Bros. shield logo is replaced with the zooming one that appears on the Looney Tunes cartoons, leading to an animated prologue in which Daffy Duck wants to appear on the logo in the opening credits of a before-feature short instead of Bugs Bunny. The shield refuses to cooperate, forcing Daffy to forget about the cartoon and just go to the movie. Opening sequence directed by Chuck Jones.

#18

:smack: Sorry about my double post.

#19

Ruthless People had an ice modern art animated opening. There was quite a vogue for such openings back in the 60s, but I don’t recall any titlles offhand.

#20

The opening and closing tags of the 1992 film Brain Donors contain what I consider to be the best and funniest work Will Vinton ever did.