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Daily Heller

   
October 06, 2009
 
Previously on the Daily Heller:

October 05
When Bad Design Happens To Bad Dictators

October 02
The 2000 Year Old Critic

October 01
Designers' Desks: First in a Series

 
A place in the sun movie title screen
 
Look what I found!! Vintage movie title cards were not viewed as significant graphic design when they were created in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. To look at them now, some are masterpieces of hand-lettering.
 
What's still fairly ignored is the end title card. I recently stumbled upon a website by the Movie Title Stills Collection that offers a wealth of exemplary titles but also The Ends. Here are some goodies from 1950 to 1954 (mouse over the first image to see the second).
 
Do you know of any more movie-title web troves? Any favorite title sequences from old films?
 
 
 
 
 
The day the earth stood still movie title screen
 
 
 
Discuss


 
Steven Heller is the cofounder and the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review and the Graphic Content blog for T-Style.  He is the author, coauthor, and/or editor of more than 120 books on design and popular culture, including the forthcoming New Ornamental Type (Thames and Hudson).
 

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