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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   > = DUG.   
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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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