In the words of Ian and Alex who run The Art of the Title Sequence website: “Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?” Check out their site for examples of great typographic, illustrative and imaginatively composed film and television title sequences. You can watch them in good quality too and then stick around to discuss in a suitably highbrow fashion…

In the meantime here are some of my favourites from the site…

…the obligatory Hitchcock, this time it’s Vertigo:

The haunting typographic treat which is Alien:

Usually absent from collections like this, a childhood favourite of mine, Innerspace:

Bond is back and raising the stakes with Casino Royale:

And one I had completely forgotten, type noir from The Untouchables:

Brought to you by Swiss Legacy, music swells, fade to black and cut to the website where the story begins…