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{{quote|''"He'll spend a 30 million dollar budget, trying as hard as he can to make it look like he only spent a few hundred thousand. The first step is to spend millions on a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra."''|'''[[Homestar Runner |
{{quote|''"He'll spend a 30 million dollar budget, trying as hard as he can to make it look like he only spent a few hundred thousand. The first step is to spend millions on a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra."''|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]''', Strong Bad e-mail 203, [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail203.html "independent"]}} |
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A live-action movie or TV show that has an animated [[Artistic Title]] sequence with all sorts of wacky hijinx. It may foreshadow the plot, set up the backstory, or just be emblematic of the story's theme. |
A live-action movie or TV show that has an animated [[Artistic Title]] sequence with all sorts of wacky hijinx. It may foreshadow the plot, set up the backstory, or just be emblematic of the story's theme. |
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== Films -- Animation == |
== Films -- Animation == |
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* ''[[Monsters, |
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' and ''[[Kung Fu Panda]] '' have opening sequences that engage in [[Medium Blending]] to 2D animation. |
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* A recent trend is for CGI features to have 2-D animation for the closing credits: ''[[ |
* A recent trend is for CGI features to have 2-D animation for the closing credits: ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]'', ''[[WALL-E]]'', ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', ''[[Bolt]]'', ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', ''[[Tangled]]'', etc. |
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* ''.hack//Liminality'' features opening credits over the ''.hack'' game footage. |
* ''.hack//Liminality'' features opening credits over the ''.hack'' game footage. |
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* The title sequence of the 2011 ''[[ |
* The title sequence of the 2011 ''[[Tintin (film)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'' is animated in 2D. |
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== Films -- Live-Action == |
== Films -- Live-Action == |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'' |
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* ''Are We Done Yet?'' |
* ''Are We Done Yet?'' |
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* ''[[Around the World |
* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' (1956) has animated ''closing'' credits. |
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* ''Auto Focus'' |
* ''Auto Focus'' |
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* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan The Back-Up Plan]'' |
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan The Back-Up Plan]'' |
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* ''[[Better Off Dead]]'' |
* ''[[Better Off Dead]]'' |
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* ''Big Momma's House'' was originally supposed to have one but it was dropped after test audiences found it too cheesy. |
* ''Big Momma's House'' was originally supposed to have one but it was dropped after test audiences found it too cheesy. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Blacula]]'' |
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* ''[[Catalina Caper]]'', riffed on in a [[ |
* ''[[Catalina Caper]]'', riffed on in a [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] episode. Joel and the Bots seemed to prefer the animation to the rest of the movie. |
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* ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' |
* ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' |
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* ''City Slickers'' |
* ''City Slickers'' |
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* ''C.H.O.M.P.S'' |
* ''C.H.O.M.P.S'' |
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* ''[[Condorman]]'' |
* ''[[Condorman]]'' |
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* The 2004 retro-style live action ''[[ |
* The 2004 retro-style live action ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' movie. |
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* ''The Dogfather'' |
* ''The Dogfather'' |
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* ''[[Down With Love]]'', [http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0052-Down_With_Love in keeping with] the [[Retraux]] style. |
* ''[[Down With Love]]'', [http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0052-Down_With_Love in keeping with] the [[Retraux]] style. |
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* The [[Vincent Price]] comedy ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' had part of its opening credits animated by [[Gumby|Art Clokey]]. |
* The [[Vincent Price]] comedy ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' had part of its opening credits animated by [[Gumby|Art Clokey]]. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Elf]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Four Rooms]]'' -- interesting for containing references to the cut fifth story. |
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* All three [[Dollars Trilogy]] movies have some form of animation for their opening credits. ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]''' is totally animated, ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' has animated words on a live-action background, and ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
* All three [[Dollars Trilogy]] movies have some form of animation for their opening credits. ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]''' is totally animated, ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' has animated words on a live-action background, and ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' has a mix of animation and still photos with various filters applied to make them look somewhat hand-drawn. |
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* ''[[Freaked]]'' |
* ''[[Freaked]]'' |
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* ''[[Friday ( |
* ''[[Friday (film)|Friday After Next]]'' |
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* Being themselves inspired by a cartoon, both ''[[George of the Jungle ( |
* Being themselves inspired by a cartoon, both ''[[George of the Jungle (film)|George of the Jungle]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-3jQwbDi0 The Movie] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csGHvZfyMM direct-to-video Part 2] have animated credits, although in wildly different style. |
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* ''[[Going Overboard]]'' |
* ''[[Going Overboard]]'' |
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* ''[[Grease]]'' |
* ''[[Grease]]'' |
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* ''[[Honey |
* ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' |
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* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World|Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World]]'' |
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* Most of the ''[[James Bond ( |
* Most of the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' films. |
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* ''[[Juno]]'' (although it was more rotoscoped than actually animated). |
* ''[[Juno]]'' (although it was more rotoscoped than actually animated). |
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* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', probably as an homage to ''Anatomy of a Murder'' and other noir classics. |
* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', probably as an homage to ''Anatomy of a Murder'' and other noir classics. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Labyrinth]]''. Notable as one of the first such sequences to be made with CGI. The animated barn owl that sweeps above and around the credits becomes a live-action one as the film proper starts, and not long after is revealed to be the shapeshifted form of the villain. |
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* ''The Lady Eve'' |
* ''The Lady Eve'' |
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* ''[[Land of the Lost ( |
* ''[[Land of the Lost (film)|Land of the]] [http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00137-Land_of_the_Lost Lost]'' |
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* ''Mannequin'' |
* ''Mannequin'' |
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* ''[[Monty |
* ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' have animated credits by Terry Gilliam. |
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* The live-action version of ''[[ |
* The live-action version of ''[[Mr. Magoo]]'', naturally enough, uses the animated character for its credits. |
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* As does the film adaptation of ''Underdog''. |
* As does the film adaptation of ''Underdog''. |
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* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0078-Mr_Magoriums_Wonder_Emporium Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]'' |
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0078-Mr_Magoriums_Wonder_Emporium Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'', in which [[Chuck Jones]]' animated credits overlap into the film proper as [[Robin Williams]]' character is revealed to be a voice artist working on (and subsequently fired from) the cartoon we've just seen. |
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* ''Nanny McPhee'' |
* ''Nanny McPhee'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'' |
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* ''[[No Deposit No Return]]'' |
* ''[[No Deposit, No Return]]'' |
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* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' is a semi-example: not strictly credits, and [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the main character being a cartoonist. |
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' is a semi-example: not strictly credits, and [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the main character being a cartoonist. |
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* ''[[The Parent Trap]]'' (the original, not the remake) features a stop-motion animation sequence during its opening credits. |
* ''[[The Parent Trap]]'' (the original, not the remake) features a stop-motion animation sequence during its opening credits. |
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* ''The Private Eyes'', an early 1980s comedy starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway. |
* ''The Private Eyes'', an early 1980s comedy starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway. |
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* ''[[Rat Race]]'' |
* ''[[Rat Race]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' |
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* ''Ruthless People'' |
* ''Ruthless People'' |
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* A deleted scene in ''[[Scooby Doo ( |
* A deleted scene in ''[[Scooby Doo (film)|Scooby Doo]]'' is this. |
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* ''[[Film/A Series Of Unfortunate Events|A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]'' has animated closing credits that run so long it's almost a mini-film in itself. And a creepily gothic one, too. |
* ''[[Film/A Series Of Unfortunate Events|A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]'' has animated closing credits that run so long it's almost a mini-film in itself. And a creepily gothic one, too. |
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* ''[[Soap Dish]]'' |
* ''[[Soap Dish]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Super]]'' |
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* ''[[Super Mario Bros ( |
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros: The Movie]]'', which begins with footage of pixellated dinosaurs. |
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* ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'' |
* ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'' |
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* ''Those Magificent Men in Their Flying Machines'' |
* ''Those Magificent Men in Their Flying Machines'' |
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* The British [[Game Show]] ''3-2-1''. |
* The British [[Game Show]] ''3-2-1''. |
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* The French wildlife show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pP1JUZEIY Les Animaux du monde]'' ([[Schmuck Bait|warning]]: serious [[Ear Worm]]). |
* The French wildlife show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pP1JUZEIY Les Animaux du monde]'' ([[Schmuck Bait|warning]]: serious [[Ear Worm]]). |
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* ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' |
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Bewitched]]'' |
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* ''[[Blackout]]'', Bob Goen's first network game show. |
* ''[[Blackout]]'', Bob Goen's first network game show. |
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* ''[[Bullseye UK]]'' |
* ''[[Bullseye UK]]'' |
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* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' |
* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' |
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* ''[[Even Stevens]]'', using [[Stop Motion]] plasticine versions of the actors |
* ''[[Even Stevens]]'', using [[Stop Motion]] plasticine versions of the actors |
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* ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' |
* ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' |
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* ''[[Hustle]]'', possibly as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''Catch Me if You Can''. |
* ''[[Hustle]]'', possibly as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''Catch Me if You Can''. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' |
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* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (although these were replaced in syndication). |
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (although these were replaced in syndication). |
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* ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' (a.k.a. ''It's a Knockout''), a wacky European athletics show. |
* ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' (a.k.a. ''It's a Knockout''), a wacky European athletics show. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Land of the Giants]]'' |
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* ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' |
* ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Lost in Space]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Mad Men]]'' |
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* ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' |
* ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Misfits]]'' |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' |
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* ''[[My Three Sons]]'' |
* ''[[My Three Sons]]'' |
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* ''[[The Nanny]]'' |
* ''[[The Nanny]]'' |
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* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0095-The_No_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency]'' |
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0095-The_No_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency]'' |
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* The 1970s [[Britcom]] ''[[ |
* The 1970s [[Britcom]] ''[[On the Buses]]''. |
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* ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' |
* ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' |
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* ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'' |
* ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'' |
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* A special case with ''[[ |
* A special case with ''[[Rome]]'', whose credits feature animated graffitis and paintings over the walls of [[Ancient Rome]]. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Soul Train]]'' |
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* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0021-The_Starter_Wife The Starter Wife]'' |
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0021-The_Starter_Wife The Starter Wife]'' |
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* The UK children's show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 Super Gran]''. |
* The UK children's show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 Super Gran]''. |
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* ''[[Ultra Seven]]'' |
* ''[[Ultra Seven]]'' |
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* ''What's My Line?'', in the late 1960s. |
* ''What's My Line?'', in the late 1960s. |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' used some in the 1990s, including anthropomorphic Wheel wedges dancing down a staircase, then one of Pat and Vanna parachuting, then a CGI shot of the Sony Pictures Studios. In 2010, the opening sequence featured Miis of Pat and Vanna to promote the then-upcoming [[Home Game]] for Nintendo's Wii and DS. |
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* ''[[Whew]]'', another game show by producer Jay Wolpert, who just loved these in general. |
* ''[[Whew]]'', another game show by producer Jay Wolpert, who just loved these in general. |
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* The British version of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? |
* The British version of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' featured [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tisjk7CqNsQ&feature=related this title sequence] in its later seasons, which was evidently inspired by a series of Italian animated shorts, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skb2gKR7rOk La Linea]". |
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* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV)|The Wild Wild West]]'' |
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' |
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{{reflist}} |
{{reflist}} |
Revision as of 11:02, 8 April 2014
"He'll spend a 30 million dollar budget, trying as hard as he can to make it look like he only spent a few hundred thousand. The first step is to spend millions on a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra."
—Strong Bad, Strong Bad e-mail 203, "independent"
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A live-action movie or TV show that has an animated Artistic Title sequence with all sorts of wacky hijinx. It may foreshadow the plot, set up the backstory, or just be emblematic of the story's theme.
Very popular in the films and television series of The Sixties, with a nostalgic, Retro revival in The Eighties. Since The Nineties, filmmakers' desire to get to the action as quickly as possible has resulted in this trope largely being discarded in favor of Creative Closing Credits.
A subtrope of Medium Blending. Compare Bait and Switch Credits.
Examples of Animated Credits Opening include:
Films -- Animation
- Monsters, Inc. and Kung Fu Panda have opening sequences that engage in Medium Blending to 2D animation.
- A recent trend is for CGI features to have 2-D animation for the closing credits: The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Kung Fu Panda, Bolt, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Tangled, etc.
- .hack//Liminality features opening credits over the .hack game footage.
- The title sequence of the 2011 The Adventures of Tintin is animated in 2D.
Films -- Live-Action
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Are We Done Yet?
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) has animated closing credits.
- Auto Focus
- The Back-Up Plan
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which begins with a animation based on the Bayeux Tapestry.
- Better Off Dead
- Big Momma's House was originally supposed to have one but it was dropped after test audiences found it too cheesy.
- Blacula
- Catalina Caper, riffed on in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. Joel and the Bots seemed to prefer the animation to the rest of the movie.
- Catch Me If You Can
- City Slickers
- C.H.O.M.P.S
- Condorman
- The 2004 retro-style live action Cutey Honey movie.
- The Dogfather
- Down With Love, in keeping with the Retraux style.
- The Vincent Price comedy Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine had part of its opening credits animated by Art Clokey.
- Elf
- Four Rooms -- interesting for containing references to the cut fifth story.
- All three Dollars Trilogy movies have some form of animation for their opening credits. A Fistful of Dollars' is totally animated, For a Few Dollars More has animated words on a live-action background, and The Good the Bad And The Ugly has a mix of animation and still photos with various filters applied to make them look somewhat hand-drawn.
- Freaked
- Friday After Next
- Being themselves inspired by a cartoon, both George of the Jungle The Movie and the direct-to-video Part 2 have animated credits, although in wildly different style.
- Going Overboard
- Grease
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- Most of the James Bond films.
- Juno (although it was more rotoscoped than actually animated).
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, probably as an homage to Anatomy of a Murder and other noir classics.
- Labyrinth. Notable as one of the first such sequences to be made with CGI. The animated barn owl that sweeps above and around the credits becomes a live-action one as the film proper starts, and not long after is revealed to be the shapeshifted form of the villain.
- The Lady Eve
- Land of the Lost
- Mannequin
- Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life have animated credits by Terry Gilliam.
- The live-action version of Mr. Magoo, naturally enough, uses the animated character for its credits.
- As does the film adaptation of Underdog.
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
- Mrs. Doubtfire, in which Chuck Jones' animated credits overlap into the film proper as Robin Williams' character is revealed to be a voice artist working on (and subsequently fired from) the cartoon we've just seen.
- Nanny McPhee
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- No Deposit, No Return
- One Crazy Summer is a semi-example: not strictly credits, and justified by the main character being a cartoonist.
- The Parent Trap (the original, not the remake) features a stop-motion animation sequence during its opening credits.
- The Pink Panther, whose titles spawned its own series of animated shorts, which themselves inspired a TV show (which, ironically enough, used live-action credits in its first season).
- The Private Eyes, an early 1980s comedy starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway.
- Rat Race
- Run Lola Run
- Ruthless People
- A deleted scene in Scooby Doo is this.
- A Series Of Unfortunate Events has animated closing credits that run so long it's almost a mini-film in itself. And a creepily gothic one, too.
- Soap Dish
- Super
- Super Mario Bros: The Movie, which begins with footage of pixellated dinosaurs.
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
- Those Magificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- Troop Beverly Hills, animated by John K.
- Youth in Revolt
Live-Action TV
- The British Game Show 3-2-1.
- The French wildlife show Les Animaux du monde (warning: serious Ear Worm).
- Batman
- Bewitched
- Blackout, Bob Goen's first network game show.
- Bullseye UK
- The late 1960s/early 1970s kids' fantasy series Catweazle.
- Chuck
- The mid-1990s sitcom Dave's World.
- Densha Otoko
- Desperate Housewives
- Even Stevens, using Stop Motion plasticine versions of the actors
- Honey I Shrunk the Kids
- Hustle, possibly as a Shout-Out to Catch Me if You Can.
- I Dream of Jeannie
- I Love Lucy (although these were replaced in syndication).
- Jeux Sans Frontières (a.k.a. It's a Knockout), a wacky European athletics show.
- Land of the Giants
- Last Call with Carson Daly
- Lost in Space
- Mad Men
- The Mickey Mouse Club
- Misfits
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- My Three Sons
- The Nanny
- The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- The 1970s Britcom On the Buses.
- The Partridge Family
- The Phil Silvers Show
- A special case with Rome, whose credits feature animated graffitis and paintings over the walls of Ancient Rome.
- Soul Train
- The Starter Wife
- The UK children's show Super Gran.
- To Say the Least
- T vs. Bloopers and Practical Jokes, by none other than Mad Magazine artist Sergio Aragones.
- Ultra Seven
- What's My Line?, in the late 1960s.
- Wheel of Fortune used some in the 1990s, including anthropomorphic Wheel wedges dancing down a staircase, then one of Pat and Vanna parachuting, then a CGI shot of the Sony Pictures Studios. In 2010, the opening sequence featured Miis of Pat and Vanna to promote the then-upcoming Home Game for Nintendo's Wii and DS.
- Whew, another game show by producer Jay Wolpert, who just loved these in general.
- The British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway featured this title sequence in its later seasons, which was evidently inspired by a series of Italian animated shorts, "La Linea".
- The Wild Wild West