One year ago, Nora Thos and Damian Pérez released the following short film taking a look at the history of movie titles and today it was brought to my attention thanks to Slashfilm. While only touching on the art of movie titles in broad strokes, it’s an interesting look at what the short calls “The Film Before the Film”, covering enough territory and offering enough details to make it easy for you to being doing a little research of your own.
The film obviously touches on the work of Saul Bass (North by Northwest, The Man with the Golden Arm), Maurice Binder (Dr. No), Pablo Ferro (Dr. Strangelove), Greenberg Associates’ work on the original Superman titles, Kyle Cooper (Seven, Mimic), Digital Domain (Fight Club) and the inventive work of Kook Ewo for Splice as well as plenty of earlier work in film from Thomas Edison to the RKO titles before King Kong (1933).
It’s a fun watch, check it out below.
