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from: Kurt Ullman
date: 2011-01-10 07:38:20
subject: Re: A silly TV movie writing question....

In article ,
 shawn  wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:48:37 -0800 (PST), 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.
> 
> I remember it for "The Invaders", a Martin Quinn production. Though it
> wasn't just a simple title card. Instead the acts were done using the
> same layered technique used for the title sequences.


Most, if not all, of the MQ productions used that format. I remember 12 
o'clock high, did also.

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