THE FILM before THE FILM

A research documentary tracing the history of film title design, from early text cards through Saul Bass and Maurice Binder to Kyle Cooper and digital typography.

A compact, visually rich crash course in the art of movie opening titles.

If you’ve ever seen a movie, you’ve seen opening titles of some kind. Opening credits have existed pretty much since the beginning of moving pictures, and they are as varied as the films themselves.

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