{"id":8208,"date":"2010-04-08T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:25:44","slug":"movie-titles-stills-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/04\/08\/movie-titles-stills-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Titles Stills Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annyas.com\/screenshots\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8209\" title=\"Movie Titles Stills Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Movie-Titles-Stills-Collection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Movie-Titles-Stills-Collection.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Movie-Titles-Stills-Collection-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opening titles of a film can be very revealing as to how a film turns out and some (especially those by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick\">Kubrick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock\">Hitchcock<\/a>) can be iconic in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this?<\/p>\n<p>Partly I think it&#8217;s a statement of intent on behalf of the filmmakers but there is also something magical about the anticipation of what you might soon be experiencing &#8211; is it going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizen_Kane\">Citizen Kane<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Chicks\">White Chicks<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>You never really know until it starts to unfold but the opening titles often give a tantalising glimpse of what lies ahead, be it good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, web designer <strong>Christian Annyas<\/strong> has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annyas.com\/screenshots\/\">an amazing selection of movie titles<\/a> which are arranged by decade, from 1929 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/03\/graphic-content-film-at-first-sight\/\">New York Times Magazine article on opening titles<\/a> <br \/>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jIlqatMQSgI\">The classic opening titles of North By Northwest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing selection of movie titles which arranged by decade from 1929 to 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}