A Brief History of Title Design

Ian Albinson from Art of the Title created the following video for the opening of the SXSW “Title Design Finalists Screening” and I found it to be quite fascinating, not to mention almost every single film is one most film fans will have seen.



The 73 different films included are…

  • Intolerance
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • King Kong
  • Modern Times
  • My Man Godfrey
  • Make Way For Tomorrow
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Gun Crazy
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Lady in the Lake
  • Fallen Angel
  • The Thing
  • Singing in the Rain
  • The Man with the Golden Arm
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Psycho
  • North by Northwest
  • Vertigo
  • Grand Prix
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Dr. No
  • The Pink Panther
  • Goldfinger
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Bullitt
  • Barbarella
  • Soylent Green
  • Mean Streets
  • Star Wars
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • Superman
  • Alien
  • Raging Bull
  • The Terminator
  • Brazil
  • The Untouchables
  • Do The Right Thing
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Naked Gun
  • Cape Fear
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Delicatessen
  • Natural Born Killers
  • Freaked
  • Se7en
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Mimic
  • Donnie Brasco
  • Mission Impossible
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Fight Club
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Lemony Snicket
  • The Fall
  • Casino Royale
  • Six Feet Under
  • Carnivale
  • Dexter
  • Mad Men
  • Iron Man
  • Juno
  • The Kingdom
  • WALL•E
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Up In The Air
  • Zombieland
  • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
  • Buried
  • Robin Hood
  • Machete
  • The Social Network
  • Enter The Void

Thanks to Awards Daily for the heads up.

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