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   Bruce Goatly to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated   
   Re: A silly TV movie writing question...   
   10 Jan 11 10:52:08   
   
   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.   
      
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   Bruce   
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