On Jan 10, 6:14 pm, Duggy  wrote:
> On Jan 11, 8:39 am, "Jay E. Morris"
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> > On 1/10/2011 4:21 PM, Duggy wrote:
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> > > On Jan 11, 4:06 am, "Jay E.
Morris"  wrote:
> > >> On 1/10/2011 4:52 AM, Bruce Goatly wrote:>  Duggy wrote:
> > >>>> On Jan 10, 2:38 am, Blair
Leatherwood
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> > >>>>> Remember when hour-long shows actually had
title cards at the beginning
> > >>>>> of each act--sometime just as simple as Act I, etc?
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> > >>>> 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.
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> > >>> 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.
> > >> NCIS reminds me of this.  After the break, a few
seconds, in black and
> > >> white*, of something coming up.
> > >> *Hmm.  Actually grayscale I guess.
> > > Something coming up?  The last seconds of the act, isn't it?
> > I've never really paid enough attention to it to realize exactly where
> > the scene occurs in the next act.  I'll have to try to pay attention
> > next time.
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> To be fair I don't watch it much, it's just my impression that it's
> the end of the act.  Someone else may have better information.
The top of each act of NCIS begins with a black-and-white image,
normally, but not quite always, taken from the end of that act. And it
was Quinn Martin, for Heaven's sake, not "Martin Quinn"!
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