This may only be of interest to hardcore movie geeks like myself, but I found it fascinating… it’s a two-minute (give or take) compilation of memorable movie-title sequences (and a few from television) dating from the very beginning of the medium right up to the current moment. Several of my favorites appear, including the stark art-deco block lettering of the original King Kong, the creepy burn-through effect of The Thing, Star Wars receding off into the distance, Superman swooping in from behind us, and the delightfully retro animation from Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can. I’ll post the complete title list below the fold, if anyone is interested…

A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

As promised, here’s a list of all the titles seen in the video, just in case you didn’t catch a few or want to review. The list comes from here, where you can also get a little more information on the video’s origins.

1. Intolerance
   
2. Phantom of the Opera
   
3. King Kong
   
4. Modern Times
   
5. My Man Godfrey
   
6. Make Way For Tomorrow
   
7. Citizen Kane
   
8. The Maltese Falcon
   
9. Gun Crazy
   
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    
11. Lady in the Lake
    
12. Fallen Angel
    
13. The Thing
    
14. Singing in the Rain
    
15. The Man with the Golden Arm
    
16. Anatomy of a Murder
    
17. Psycho
    
18. North by Northwest
    
19. Vertigo
    
20. Grand Prix
    
21. To Kill A Mockingbird
    
22. Dr. No
    
23. The Pink Panther
    
24. Goldfinger
    
25. Dr. Strangelove
    
26. Bullitt
    
27. Barbarella
    
28. Soylent Green
    
29. Mean Streets
    
30. Star Wars
    
31. Saturday Night Fever
    
32. Superman
    
33. Alien
    
34. Raging Bull
    
35. The Terminator
    
36. Brazil
    
37. The Untouchables
    
38. Do The Right Thing
    
39. Forrest Gump
    
40. The Naked Gun
    
41. Cape Fear
    
42. Reservoir Dogs
    
43. Delicatessen
    
44. Natural Born Killers
    
45. Freaked
    
46. Se7en
    
47. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    
48. Mimic
    
49. Donnie Brasco
    
50. Mission Impossible
    
51. Dawn of the Dead
    
52. Fight Club
    
53. Catch Me If You Can
    
54. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
    
55. The Fall
    
56. Casino Royale
    
57. Six Feet Under
    
58. Carnivale
    
59. Dexter
    
60. Mad Men
    
61. Iron Man
    
62. Juno
    
63. The Kingdom
    
64. Wall-E
    
65. Sherlock Holmes
    
66. Up In The Air
    
67. Zombieland
    
68. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
    
69. Buried
    
70. Robin Hood
    
71. Machete
    
72. The Social Network
    
73. Enter The Void