It's Tuesday fun time (or, as we prefer to call it in this brainfried, sweltering midsummer, Tuesday): A clever Dutch designer has offered up a time-killing slice of movie-wonk ecstasy with his video, "A History of the Title Sequence." In it, Jurjen Versteeg offers call-outs to eight celebrated title designers and their most famous work, the sum total of which provides the arc of title design for the last century-plus. But can you identify the films that each citation invokes? Read on to give it a shot.
I scored a lame five out of eight; I'll never tell which five. So ashamed.
A History Of The Title Sequence from jurjen versteeg on Vimeo.
Click "All" below for the answers... [Video via Film Detail via @akstanwyck]
· Georges Méliès: Un Voyage Dans La Lune (1902)
· Saul Bass: Psycho (1960)
· Maurice Binder: Dr. No (1962)
· Stephen Frankfurt: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
· Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
· Richard Greenberg: Alien (1979)
· Kyle Cooper: Se7en (1995)
· Danny Yount: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)