I’m not sure if it counts as a counter example but Captain N: The Game Master starts with a live-action sequence of its main character falling into Videoland
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The movie City Slickers has an animated intro sequence.
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Better Off Dead has one of the best animated opening title sequences ever.
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Good example, but I really liked the one that went with the 8os comedy Mannequin. The young women who wanted to marry for love, is transported throught time, with a weird 80s angular animation sytle.
It’s in the ending credits rather than the opening sequence, but the anime Furi Kuri has a montage of live-action shots after each episode.
I was thinking the same about “Spiderman” and possibly “The Hulk”
Speaking of The Pink Panther, the TV cartoon series is an example of an animated show with live-action titles. Fancy that.
Kidd Video is much the same – a cartoon about a group of kids falling into a cartoon world (the “Flipside”). Live action beginning credits of the kids going to rehearse and becoming cartoons and the show itself was largely animated (though it did have a live action music video in each episode as I recall).
The Nanny has an animated opening. And they never updated it, even when the children grew up. The Partridge Family had animated credits, too.
And how did we forget* Batman*? Biff! Pow! OOOF!!
I used to love watching for Batgirl to zoom by on her Batcycle.
It had a nice bit of animation rolling over the end credits as well.
Run Lola Run opens with an animated sequence. There’s a short animated bit towards the beginning of each version of the story, too.
I remebered about them when I wrote Battle of the animated Bands. Kidd Video vs. Gorillaz vs. Jem vs. the Archies, but somehow, I forgot when I made this thread.
A sort of reverse of the reverse: Yellow Submarine is a cartoon for 85 minutes, then ends with 3 minutes of live footage of the Beatles (“There’s only one way to leave here… SINGING!”)
The underrated Stallone comedy Oscar begins with a claymation opera singer doing the famous song from The Marriage of Figaro during the opening credits. It’s quite funny.
The first Honey I Shrunk The Kids movie has a great animated opening sequence.
A Life Less Ordinary ends with a claymation-esque sequence.
The * Spongebob Squarepants * movie is animated, but has a live-action introduction.
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs starts off with a live film of the author walking along a path near a woods on a cold, windy day with snow beginning to fall, then transitions into the animated film.
Animated opening credits (and, occasionally, closing credits) were actually pretty standard fare for movies in the early and mid 1960s, spilling over into TV shows as well. (Note how many of the named features in this thread were produced in that time period.) I’m sure the geezers can produce several more. My contribution: Wild, Wild, West with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin, where animated scenes not only opened the show, but closed and re-opened each of the four 15-minute “episodes” of the hour-long show.