Jpeg Master
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Mar 24, 2006, 9:15 PM
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Theatrical releases with Animation
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At lunch today a friend and I were talking about movies that had animation opening sequences. To set the criteria, we were talking about actual animated sequences that opened up for theatrical releases. I came up with these:
1) The Honeymoon Machine
2) Adam and Eve?
3) It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
4) The Pink Panther
5) Grease
6) What’s New Pusscat?
7) Bachelor in Paradise
8) City Slickers
What cha got all?
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Animator
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Mar 25, 2006, 4:20 AM
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Here's some I can think of....
- Charge of the Light Brigade (one of Richard Williams' finest opening/bridging sequences)
- Catalina Caper ("Never Steal Anything Wet", animated by Murakami-Wolf Films, also known by WAY too many MST3K fans)
- How To Beat The High Co$T of Living (the opening comes off looking like something done by Bill Melendez or something)
- Gremlins II: The New Batch (probably the only time Chuck Jones did such an opening as well as closing title sequence)
- Mrs. Doubtfile (you probably can't really count this, other than for it being the first image we see in the film of the Robin Williams character doing the voice dubbingi to what was supposed to be a cartoon seen before the movie)
- American Tickler (a clone in the vain of Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie and Tunnelvision)
- One Crazy Summer (that opening was bitchin'!)
- Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
- Troop Beverly Hills (featuring John Kricfalusi's bichin' designs)
- Honey I Shrunk the Kids (also count "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" in this as well)
- The Black Hole (the early CGI opening sequence that is)
That's all I can think of right now.
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Inbetweener
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Mar 25, 2006, 5:16 AM
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Several Disney live-action films had animated title sequences, incl. (among many others) "The Shaggy Dog," "That Darn Cat" and "George of the Jungle." Also: Hanna-Barbera's "C.H.O.M.P.S." and some of the Three
Stooges' feature films in the sixities (e.g., "The Three
Stooges Meet Hercules" and "The Three Stooges Go
Around the World in a Daze"). Those are the ones that
immediately come to mind.
(This post was edited by ToonFan on Mar 25, 2006, 5:21 AM)
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Director / Contributor
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Mar 25, 2006, 6:37 AM
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I can think of two Marx brothers films that open with animation: Horse Feathers and Room Service.
One more recent movie I could mention is Tomcats. The opening sequence with the dog and cat competing for girls is probably the best part of the movie. 
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Jpeg Master
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Mar 25, 2006, 12:00 PM
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Mrs. Doubtfile (you probably can't really count this, other than for it being the first image we see in the film of the Robin Williams character doing the voice dubbingi to what was supposed to be a cartoon seen before the movie)
Yeah, that really doesn't fit to our criteria.
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Mar 25, 2006, 1:11 PM
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Here are some more:
-The Private Eyes (1981) Starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
-Inspector Clouseau (1968), with Alan Arkin substituting for Peter Sellers
-The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
-The Cannonball Run (1981), opens with cartoon cars driving around the 20th Century Fox logo.
-Mannequin (1987), opening animation by Sally Kruinshank
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(This post was edited by SpaceDemon on Mar 25, 2006, 1:16 PM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 25, 2006, 1:16 PM
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All of the "Pink Panther" films
"Popeye" with Robin Williams began with a Hanna-Barbera animated "Popeye" opening (H-B was producing the Saturday AM "Popeye" cartoon show at the time).
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(This post was edited by artytoons on Mar 25, 2006, 1:17 PM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 25, 2006, 1:21 PM
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Several Disney live-action films had animated title sequences, incl. (among many others) "The Shaggy Dog," "That Darn Cat" and "George of the Jungle." Also: Hanna-Barbera's "C.H.O.M.P.S." and some of the Three
Stooges' feature films in the sixities (e.g., "The Three
Stooges Meet Hercules" and "The Three Stooges Go
Around the World in a Daze"). Those are the ones that
immediately come to mind.
Another Three Stooges film with an animated opening title sequence was "Have Rocket Will Travel".
Some more:
Dont Make Waves (1967)-starring Tony Curtis
And I don't know if this counts, but Disney's Sky High (2005) opens with a montage of comic-book drawings of Commander Stronghold, Joise Jetstream and their son Will. But these were stills, not actual animation.
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 25, 2006, 1:27 PM)
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Research Guru
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Mar 25, 2006, 10:28 PM
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Leon Schlesinger produced a few very early John Wayne films on the side. One of them (I forget which) opened with crude animation from his studio.
Schlesinger was also in charge of the animated opening sequences for:
1) When's Your Birthday? (RKO, 1937)
Live-action (black and white) with an opening sequence in TechniColor animated by Bob Clampett. The scene depicts the stars and planets, and their effects on Earth. "That was the first time I officially directed at Warner Bros.," Clampett recalled in an interview. "At the end of 1936, Leon (Schlesinger) gave me a color cartoon sequence in a Joe E. Brown feature picture called When's Your Birthday? It featured all the signs of the zodiac as cartoon characters." This was Clampett's only work in color until Goofy Groceries (1941).
2) Love Thy Neighbor (Paramount, 1940)
In his All Movie Guide, Hal Erickson says he thinks Schlesinger's opening sequence is the best scene in this movie.
3) The Lady Eve (Paramount, 1941)
Live action with opening credits and title sequence animated by Schlesinger (featuring an animated snake tree slithering down from a tree).
Directing duo Smith & Foulkes at British animation company Nexus Productions made "The Littlest Elf," an aniimated sequence, for the beginning of Paramount Pictures' and DreamWorks SKG's Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Nexus also was responsible for the celebrated opening credits of Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
Smith & Foulkes created the title sequence to the 2004 film Thunderbirds as well.
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Research Guru
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Mar 25, 2006, 10:45 PM
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Bill Hurtz directed the animated titles for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Psycho (1960) and Ocean's Eleven (1960). Most of the time, he was uncredited.
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Lead Animator / Moderator
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Mar 26, 2006, 3:05 AM
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"Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" & "Monte Carlo or Bust" (aka: "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies") - animated titles designed by Ronald Searle
Amongst the Disney selection, "The Parent Trap" (The original 1961 version)
And we must not forget "The Four Poster" (1952) with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer - John Hubley's titles and bridging sequences were an eye-opening inspiration for Yugoslavia's Zagreb animators.
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Research Guru
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Mar 26, 2006, 10:50 AM
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I'm surprised you didn't recall this one, Peter:
The comedy omnibus The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (Tigon Films, 1971) had animated titles, as well as sequences introducing each segment, by Bob Godfrey Films. Writers included Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame.
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Directing Animator
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:49 AM
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3) The Lady Eve (Paramount, 1941)
Live action with opening credits and title sequence animated by Schlesinger (featuring an animated snake tree slithering down from a tree). I'm really surprised that Paramount didn't assign this to the Fleischer Studio; but then, maybe they had their hands full with the Superman series.
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Directing Animator
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:57 AM
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I've thought of a few...
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Shaggy D.A.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (animation produced by the Walter Lantz Studio)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (ditto)
The Egg and I (double ditto)
Could this thread be expanded to include live-action TV series/specials with animated title sequences?
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Jpeg Master
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Mar 27, 2006, 9:50 PM
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Nice entries all...thanks a bunch.
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Research Guru
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Mar 28, 2006, 12:37 PM
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Could this thread be expanded to include live-action TV series/specials with animated title sequences?
How about a new thread in Television Discussions?
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Jpeg Master
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Mar 28, 2006, 9:45 PM
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Sure!
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Jpeg Master
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Mar 31, 2006, 7:50 PM
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Here's another one that kinda works, it's real slow animation but someone did the layout and faded the transitions.
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Mar 31, 2006, 7:52 PM
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Does this count? 3-d animation; because the movie Elf has 3-d animation opening credits.
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Directing Animator
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Apr 3, 2006, 1:04 AM
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There was a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy from the late 1950's, Send Me No Flowers that had one brief dream sequence mixing live-action and animation, In this film, Hudson's character is convinced that he's dying and asks his friend, played by Tony Randall, to help make arrangements for his funeral and provisions for wife Doris Day
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Research Guru
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Apr 3, 2006, 12:54 PM
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The other day, Turner Classic Movies aired Yours, Mine and Ours (the original 1968 version with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball).
There was some animation with the opening credits. Not much, but at least it was there. IMDB doesn't give any information about who created it.
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Apprentice
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Apr 3, 2006, 2:31 PM
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Animation throughout of course, but a theatrical release for all that - and it starts with three magnificent minutes of one of the finest pieces of genuine 24 frames/second animation I've ever seen.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Apr 3, 2006, 4:14 PM
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The other day, Turner Classic Movies aired Yours, Mine and Ours (the original 1968 version with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball).
There was some animation with the opening credits. Not much, but at least it was there.
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) also had animation in its' opening.
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Jpeg Master
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Sep 2, 2006, 5:04 PM
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I found another one, the Mouse that Roared with Peter Sellers.
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Research Guru
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Sep 9, 2006, 3:29 PM
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Also, the 1986 musical The Frog Prince, produced by The Cannon Group and co-starring Aileen Quinn and Helen Hunt. It opened with animation of a sprightly frog.
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(This post was edited by eminovitz on Sep 9, 2006, 3:30 PM)
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