On 1/10/2011 4:21 PM, Duggy wrote:
> 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
>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>
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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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