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:

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I’d noticed a few lovely classic film title screens cropping up on Ffffound! in recent weeks, then all of a sudden I stumble across this website, an archive of great (and not so great) film title screens lovingly compiled over a number of years by Steven Hill.

I could spend hours looking through these, the old ones are particularly lovely. Reminds me of watching classic afternoon films staying at my Nan’s house when I was little. No, we didn’t watch Battle Royale!

Thanks to Sean for the link…

Head on over to the 1000 Frames of Hitchcock project to see what looks like all the great man’s films, each presented as a series of 1000 stills. Be warned, if you haven’t seen any of the films, then this might give away some of the plot lines…

They all look fantastic presented like this, taking on a textural quality – and it’s nice to see the more obscure ones like Murder! which I remember dissecting as part of my graphic design dissertation on Hitchcock’s visual style. Did you know that Hitch was a graphic designer before he went into films? (Before they called us graphic designers) Maybe that’s something to do with the way I’ve always been drawn to his work, every frame of his films feel like an exercise in composition.

On a related note, I started a ‘Hitchcockesque’ Flickr group a while back which is progressing nicely but could always do with more contributions…

Found on the always interesting Johnson Banks Thought for the Week