Vertigo -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

[@chrisfinch8637]

Bernard Herrmann had some of the finest scores to ever grace the movies, and on television. He is forever missed.

[@nyancs7098]

And Steiner fs

[@gvalley07]

Could you imagine this opening sitting in a theater back in the day...

[@rockhilltoastmasters7653]

I think about the same thing every time I watch this movie or when watching opening sequence online. A Masterpiece ! Period !

[@britainreynolds7365]

gvalley07 I just did that a few week ago watching it for the first time ever!!! It was so amazing!!!

[@jeweljardine8163]

gvalley07 bad

[@c0mpu73rguy]

I could since I saw this film for the first time in a cinema (for a Hitchcock retrospective)... It was chilling.

[@pot10]

I saw this at a concert hall. It was projected onto screen, and the Toronto Symphony played the music live. It was incredible

[@jimmyj1969]

Probably the best movie title sequence ever!

[@jeromeerrico7898]

Probably the best movie ever. Awesome

[@Jefcostello-1]

Watchmen?, Drive!!?? But that's you're opinion

[@geographicDJspeedy28]

@@Jefcostello-1 I was also thinking about Watchmen lol but yeah there's a lot more.

[@Jefcostello-1]

@Ray watchmen is great

[@ELHIPPO]

@@Jefcostello-1 taxi driver and apocalipsis now

[@anothertuber211]

Saul Bass+Bernhard Hermann= Perfection!

[@lucinae8512]

The greatest support duo ever.

[@brotherhood7596]

...and Alfred Hitchcock, of course

[@willharding8445]

Also the often forgotten John Whitney, who figured out how to draw Bass's designs with high enough precision to animate them by using a WW2 mechanical gun targeting computer to drive a pendulum connected to a paint feed. Arguably the first use of computer animation in a Hollywood film.

[@DMalltheway]

Saul Bass also did Goodfellas

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

what about Maurice Binder and John Barry a series of certain films there surreal images and singers of that period of time a midas touch a spiders touch

[@hadassahtannenbaum8828]

I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen. Amazing. We had a Hitchcock festival.

[@burnsbrightlyproductions989]

The eye widening gives me chills.

[@camillemckenzie3235]

I keep wondering what she saw that frightened her

[@johncarter579]

I've always imagined its the lady in the film whose face we never see

[@FlavioMarceloSousa35]

This is brilliant, beautiful and disturbing and always will be.

[@austinthomas8464]

This transports people back to 1958 it’s crazy from another time my great grandparents were alive and well great time to be alive

[@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038]

correct. Far better than today!

[@newseason3917]

Unless ur black

[@dr.winstonsmith]

@@newseason3917Actually better for them too by most socioeconomic indicators.

[@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038]

@@newseason3917 they were far better off as well, no drug fueled gang wars just check the murder rates and incarceration rates. Black families were still intact the 'Great Society' hadn't wrecked Black America yet

[@michaelbruns449]

A spellbinding, genuinely disturbing and provocative movie maker, over forty years since his passing, Alfred Hitchcock remains the master of cinematic creation. Like more profound and inventive, influential and lasting than even Kubrick, Spielberg, Ford, Scorcese, Lean, Wai, Coppola, Scott, Friedkin, Wyler, Lang, Murnau, Wilder, Kurosawa, Bergman, Welles, Cameron, Leone, Malick, Griffith and several other master class film directors.

[@87dramarama]

Scott who?

[@michaelbruns449]

@@87dramarama Ridley scott

[@territorialtea747]

I truly don’t know if he was that good, even though I’m a huge fan

[@theseoldhomes]

"i want hitchcocks rotting hitchcock" is all i can interpret.

[@brickforge12]

@@territorialtea747he is one of the few directors that made me watch a full movie made in the 30s, trust me he is good

[@Highland804]

Wonderful score. Great movie! Thanks.

[@joycearps2800]

I remember this film vividly. In 1958 I was 12. My parents took us, my sister and me, to the theater in Monroe, MI. The opening was mesmerizing to me. The Spirograph toy hadn’t come along yet! The lady’s face in the opening is Kim Novak’s. I found this out in recent years per Google. The musical score by Herrmann is hauntingly beautiful. Memories…

[@brotherhood7596]

I have never really cared about titles and opening sequences until I met Vertigo

[@franciszeknowak3533]

I feel the same, but i cared about titles after watching Psycho

[@brotherhood7596]

@franciszeknowak3533 Psycho's also a good example

[@Jass.Marttz]

*So iconic and perfect.* Hitchcock a GENIUS in every sense, presenting us one of his many masterpieces.

[@joshu6394]

My dad once rented a VHS copy of this film back when I was a kid, and this part scared me to death haha

[@folkertteveldemmenniederla7274]

Every time I see it, it gives me the creeps. It is so beautiful.

[@kevinharty1236]

Beautiful …

[@kev1369]

This title sequence seems to me the most brilliant title sequence.The title sequence made the plot twist more enjoyable and surprising.

[@simonbarnsley6281]

Without a doubt Hitchcock's masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made

[@mashenkahazel]

Masterpiece, I was 13th when I wacht this intro, and never I forgot ❤🎉

[@nigeljaxon]

man when i saw this movie the title sequence was the best

[@BenCol]

0:48 The first woman to grow a James Moustewartache.

[@elmultiversodejoaquin405]

One Of Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpieces

[@michaelh4227]

Technically one of the first uses of CGI in film. And in 1958 no less.

[@garrison6863]

Saul Bass was one of the best ever at title sequences. Plus on this film, Hitchcock had DP Burks, editor Tomasini and Bernard H for music. They were the best he had.

[@padraicglynn2657]

My favourite Hitchcock film

[@boltmarksman488]

This is how iTunes visualizer was made.

[@spiderdude2099]

This is my second favorite opening credit sequence of a Hitchcock movie. Psycho is number one for me. Also for psycho and this one, holy shit the score and the music is half the experience. Masterfully made

[@brotherhood7596]

Psycho and Vertigo are his finest works, after all

[@bringmeknitting844]

​@Randy White I love all three you list there, they'd be near the top of my Hitch list (along with some great earlier stuff like 39 Steps) but Vertigo is right up there for many people. It's a harder watch than say, North by Northwest which is more of an adventure movie, but it's still a great piece of work.

[@ssaejonna1620]

@Randy White Nah

[@Gmthekiller]

@Randy White vertigo is not just best Hitchcock film but probably the best film of all time

[@fijistarproductions990]

Mesmerizing eerie music is perfect and haunting Someone tell me what it’s called

[@brotherhood7596]

"Prelude and rooftop"

[@Cat-meow-Cat]

George tomasini must have been a famous editor back in the day Well his editing for this film is amazing I must say

[@thecinematicmind]

Happy 100th Birthday Saul Bass!

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

One of Hitchcock's best!!

[@blazinchalice]

First use of slit scan photographic technique in a motion picture. This was the inspiration for Trurnbull's work on 2001.

[@iphonewalkthroughs]

I was wondering if they might be the same guy. What an innovative time that period was for film

[@DukeJon1969]

Great intro

[@chrispeare]

Just saw this at the theater today.

[@eduardoeugenio2561]

Estupendo contraste entre la calmada musica logo de James Horner y la misteriosa y potente intro de Herrmann.

[@robluck21]

Love it

[@malommerenapolitane5346]

great music

[@TheNoMan23]

I feel bad for not watching it in the theatre...

[@michaelbruns449]

I feel bad because (the greed driven) they dont show classic movies inside large screen theaters anywhere near as much as they should and deserve to be.

[@jmcieslak0]

Well if you're under 70 you probably didn't have a great chance to

[@ZakWolf]

This is obviously from the 1996 reissue of the film, judging by the early 90s Universal logo at the start.

[@IAmDylanPowers]

How is it possible that the first few texts move like that! That's impossible!

[@theofficialczex1708]

First use of computer animation in a major film.

[@EmilyHartley25989]

Apologies if a strange comment, whoever arranged the visual sequence certainly understood vertigo issues.

[@Melancholiker79]

Martin Scorcese's "CapeFear" 😱

[@m00nface34]

How did he get the spirals in the beginning

[@ilirllukaci5345]

They're Lissajous figures, produced by a mathematical function that describes complex harmonic motion. What's particularly fascinating is that complex harmonic motion can through very simple means reach a chaotic state, which is utterly unpredictable. A very apt metaphor for Jimmy Stewart's tortured psychological state.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

As in, "You were a very apt pupil. A very apt pupil."

[@boltmarksman488]

They must've really loved showing off directors. You see all the names pass by clumped in small letters and then in bold: *DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK*

[@mrlopez-pz7pu]

Who is "they"? The front size is because of Hitch's contract.

[@jarvoh6256]

Hitchcock is the real star of this film though

[@jmcieslak0]

You mean "Hitchcock really loved showing off"

[@CaptButtonMash]

Who composed the old Universal theme?

[@paxsopranodynasty7555]

Don't know but its awesome isn't it ?

[@ms.heavenm11]

James Horner

[@vittoriostoraro]

WHY is the volume so low? and this is NOT 1080 HD

[@italosousamonteiro1699]

BORN THIS WAY MV

[@misterprince9549]

Look like sharingan

[@antonystamatiou3136]

Midnight in the garden of good And evil chocolates

[@labyrinthmind2951]

Fun fact: this opening sequence has the first CGI ever to be used in a movie.

[@cornishchris8404]

Which DVD release was this?

[@lunaracc914]

it was probably from the laserdisc but cropped to 16x9 to eliminate the box effect

[@jeweljardine8163]

cornish chris laser disc

[@ZakWolf]

@@lunaracc914 That would seem likely; the early 90s Universal logo at the start is a dead giveaway.

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

Is the model really Kim Novak? I always read it is but it doesn't look like her

[@no288]

Its not

[@crossroadsspeech763]

Ghosts of Mississippi 1996

[@MrKajithecat]

Such a weird movie but shot masterfully.

[@SiempreJulio]

... espiral ...

[@hshiflowrs]

Born This Way music video intro

[@MrWackypackages]

Ew

[@lunaracc914]

Fucking no

[@MrMahn21]

*dislike*

[@blake12396]

@@lunaracc914 fucking yes

[@darrylgaines2540]

Vapid Kevin Costner and wretched Mel Gibson have Oscars for directing and Alfred Hitchcock....doesn’t 🙄

[@chrisfinch8637]

Nominated but never won a single Oscar. Though he did win an Irving G. Thalberg award, he still didn’t win any other Academy Award.

[@ms.heavenm11]

Fuck the Oscars. They never gave it to the best of all, Stanley Kubrick.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Yes, that's shame!

[@evertvanderhik5774]

Who is the lady in the opening?

[@feelingcrafty]

I know her personally as she's the mom of some friends of mine, but I don't know her name! She's in her 80s now and an adorable person. She went on a date with Elvis!

[@evertvanderhik5774]

@@feelingcrafty that's cool.

[@shannahmc]

Joanne Genthon, she died in June of 2018

[@itsmeinparis]

@@shannahmc Joanne Genthon is Carlotta in Jimmy Steward's dream, but is she also the one in the opening titles ?

[@vickjr98]

@@itsmeinparis I think so

[@PlatoCave]

Saul Bass and Bernard Hermann are in top forms here. This is absolutely unforgettable movie experience. A truly hypnotic one. How come a movie becomes so close to perfection that almost creates a template for generations to come. Hitchcock masterpiece. A timeless classic.

[@redcan5254]

Whose eyes are these (??) ...

[@ameliasmoak3111]

The wife who was murdered and replaced with Kim Novak, hence the examining of her features (to see if the replica would suit)

[@ffraysse3065]

1:27 Sharingan

[@mitchellobrien2455]

Good

[@peteralexander2941]

First movie to use a computer generated title sequence The spinning shapes and patterns were drawn using a repurposed ww2 anti aircraft computer 😮

[@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038]

Back when San Fran was livable before the vile fringe lift seized power!

[@jimdecamp7204]

Check this out: rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/9/did-vertigo-introduce-computer-graphics-cinema/

[@joeiscool2418]

my cat has aids

[@Stephen-to7jx]

Apparently, it was the first use of CGI.

[@garyhunt9600]

No one knows who is this women

[@costes7]

Gary Hunt isn't she Kim Novak?

[@shannahmc]

many people seem to think it's Joanne Genthon, the same woman who played Carlotta in Scotty's nightmare

[@joserodriguez-ky5qj]

@@shannahmc thank you!!

[@elenij3781]

It’s a frightful ghost...the woman who disappears in the boarding house scene.

[@feelingcrafty]

She's my friend's mom, but I honestly don't know her name, LOL! She's an adorable person.

[@samuelbarber6177]

Man, this is a weird James Bond film.

[@elenij3781]

Frightening. The woman with dilated pupils.

[@elenij3781]

@benvolio mozart I know this but appreciate your confirmation. But even beyond the eyes - the image is not of the principal female character Judy/Madeline - instead she is anonymous, fearful and feared, her skin/lips/ in fact her total physiognomy is imperfect... she is rather monstrous...and Hitchcock wanted it that way...

[@elenij3781]

@benvolio mozart In fact, there is much the viewer can ascertain from this strange creature about the female characters in the film. I'd give you an A if you were my student who analyzed this scene...As for the scene in Ernie's - Madeline is far less "angelic" than a ghost emerging from a womb of deception (dining room). If you notice how Hitch filmed her as she exits...gliding not walking. Creepy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXvbfmiofJ1ll6M

[@johncarter579]

@@elenij3781 it's the real Madelaine, and she's just realised she hasn't much time left

[@elenij3781]

@@johncarter579 IDK... but I do not think it is Madeline. She is meant to be a platonic creation - just a version of real. An ideal version of a woman but a negative version.

[@elenij3781]

@@johncarter579 not anything like the "real" Madeline. Not even close. She's monstrous at best...a fearful victim at worst.

[@edgarchea]

1963 😧

[@michaelbruns449]

Like they obviously knew they were making a color movie. So what was their artistic point beginning this in black and white? Makes no visual sense, doesnt even look right. Clashes and detracts, lessening the overall effects of colorized haunted ambiance throughout.

[@BillyOGrady]

Sounds like Inception at times

[@bringmeknitting844]

Yes, and probably not entirely unintentional given Nolan's film knowledge!

[@PlatoCave]

Epic.

[@marilyndeservedbetter]

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Music Video opening scene