It is high time to celebrate the film title sequence and its creators, directors, musicians, graphic designers, often unknown, forgotten or worse: not credited.
Here is the first French website gathering the most beautiful title sequences in the world!
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Here is our database of film opening sequences.
It is not exhaustive but we hope it will be one day.
Our goal is to show the wide range of styles and forms title sequence can have, and prove it is legitimate as a visual art in its own right.
We are not judging here, we are just witnesses and historians, eager to foster this art.
If you think we have forgotten sequences deserving to be listed here, please let us know. We have sorted them by decade, to better emphasize styles and periods.
The wall of titles provides an overview of trends from 1910 to the present.
Rate your favorite sequences to take part in the internaiuts' Top 100.
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All titles sequences are protected by copyrights: Time Warner, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, Lionsgate, Revolution, Europa Corp, Pathé, Gaumont, Canal+, …
“I created the “quick cut technique” by editing because animation taught me every frame means something; you draw the movement, how fast or slow you make things.”
“How could we bring the many title creators to light if the most famous one is ignored?”
While blood, red and charged with symbolism is omnipresent on our cinema screens, it may be pertinent to ask if it also flows between the lines of title sequences in recent years. Or to put it another way, are the coming years going to be blood-soaked?