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from: Bruce Goatly
date: 2011-01-10 10:52:08
subject: Re: A silly TV movie writing question....

Duggy wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2:38 am, Blair Leatherwood 
> wrote:
>> Remember when hour-long shows actually had title cards at the beginning
>> of each act--sometime just as simple as Act I, etc?
>
> I remember it for british shows, even half hour ones.  Some were doing
> it into the eighties, IIRC.  In the US... I only recall it in parody.

In the sixties there was The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which had title cards 
*and* individual act titles; each title was a quote from the next act. Mind 
you, that show was part parody in itself. The extreme defocusing at the end 
of each act looked cool, too.

-- 
Bruce
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