I'd add to the list opening credits: for TV or movies. We used to have more of these and sure some of them were highly annoying but so many were great. When I was a kid I had a whole mix tape (and later a CD) of just theme songs from tv shows and another one from movies. Not just songs with words, but the other day the theme from e.r. wa…
I'd add to the list opening credits: for TV or movies. We used to have more of these and sure some of them were highly annoying but so many were great. When I was a kid I had a whole mix tape (and later a CD) of just theme songs from tv shows and another one from movies. Not just songs with words, but the other day the theme from e.r. was in my head all day it was so great and at various points in bopping my head along I'd always picture Anthony Edwards leaning back in his chair and Eric La Salle's fist pump.
And then there are opening credits that are just perfect. The opening credits of the 60s To Kill a Mockingbird is a perfect overture: it weaves in all the main themes of the movie and while scrolling over toys that basically tell the whole story of the movie. In perfect time with each other too - a ball rolls across the screen to the tune of an echo of what plays when the kids are goofing and run up to Boo's house for the first time.
Okay, maybe I just think about the opening credits of To Kill A Mockingbird alot.
CHiPs and Simon and Simon were not great shows, but they had great opening credits, although I think the overall winner for LA based shows credit sequences is the Rockford files.
I'd add to the list opening credits: for TV or movies. We used to have more of these and sure some of them were highly annoying but so many were great. When I was a kid I had a whole mix tape (and later a CD) of just theme songs from tv shows and another one from movies. Not just songs with words, but the other day the theme from e.r. was in my head all day it was so great and at various points in bopping my head along I'd always picture Anthony Edwards leaning back in his chair and Eric La Salle's fist pump.
And then there are opening credits that are just perfect. The opening credits of the 60s To Kill a Mockingbird is a perfect overture: it weaves in all the main themes of the movie and while scrolling over toys that basically tell the whole story of the movie. In perfect time with each other too - a ball rolls across the screen to the tune of an echo of what plays when the kids are goofing and run up to Boo's house for the first time.
Okay, maybe I just think about the opening credits of To Kill A Mockingbird alot.
The looping shot of the cab going over the Queensboro Bridge set to Bob James's "Angela" for Taxi is so perfect and soothing
CHiPs and Simon and Simon were not great shows, but they had great opening credits, although I think the overall winner for LA based shows credit sequences is the Rockford files.