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<div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">1</span></div> | <div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">1</span></div> | ||
<div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Per un | <div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Per un pugno di dollari|A Fistful of Dollars]]''', [[Sergio Leone]] (1964) | ||
Animation by [[Iginio Lardani]]. Length 2m. Notes: Moving images, colour. ''Score: 10'' | Animation by [[Iginio Lardani]]. Length 2m. Notes: Moving images, colour. ''Score: 10'' | ||
<div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Per un Pugno di dollari/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Per un Pugno di dollari/DVD]]</div></div> | <div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Per un Pugno di dollari/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Per un Pugno di dollari/DVD]]</div></div> | ||
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<div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">3</span></div> | <div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">3</span></div> | ||
<div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]''', [[Sergio Leone]] (1966) | <div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]''', [[Sergio Leone]] (1966) | ||
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 3m. Notes: Moving images, colour, faces, clips. ''Score: 9'' | Animation by [[Iginio Lardani]]. Length 3m. Notes: Moving images, colour, faces, clips. ''Score: 9'' | ||
<div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Buono, il brutto, il cattivo II/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Buono, il brutto, il cattivo II/DVD]]</div></div> | <div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Buono, il brutto, il cattivo II/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Buono, il brutto, il cattivo II/DVD]]</div></div> | ||
<div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:TheGoodtheBadandtheUgly.gif]]</div> | <div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:TheGoodtheBadandtheUgly.gif]]</div> | ||
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<div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">4</span></div> | <div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">4</span></div> | ||
<div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Giorni dell'ira, I|Day of Anger]]''', [[Tonino Valerii]] (1967) | <div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Giorni dell'ira, I|Day of Anger]]''', [[Tonino Valerii]] (1967) | ||
Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images, colour, faces, clips. ''Score: 9'' | |||
<div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Giorni dell'ira, I/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Giorni dell'ira, I/DVD]]</div></div> | <div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Giorni dell'ira, I/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Giorni dell'ira, I/DVD]]</div></div> | ||
<div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:DayofAngercredits.gif]]</div> | <div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:DayofAngercredits.gif]]</div> | ||
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<div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">8</span></div> | <div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:20px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">8</span></div> | ||
<div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Arizona Colt|Arizona Colt]]''', [[ | <div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Arizona Colt|Arizona Colt]]''', [[Michele Lupo]] (1966) | ||
Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images/clips, colour. ''Score: 8'' | Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images/clips, colour. ''Score: 8'' | ||
<div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Arizona Colt/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Arizona Colt/DVD]]</div></div> | <div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Arizona Colt/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Arizona Colt/DVD]]</div></div> | ||
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<div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:21px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">27</span></div> | <div class="small-1 large-1 columns" style="padding:21px;"><span style="font-size:300%;border-bottom:1px dashed gray;">27</span></div> | ||
<div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Mercenario, Il|The Mercenary]]''', [[Sergio Corbucci]] (1968) | <div class="small-11 large-8 columns">'''[[Mercenario, Il|The Mercenary]]''', [[Sergio Corbucci]] (1968) | ||
Length 2m. Notes: Still clips, colour. ''Score: 3'' | Animation by [[Iginio Lardani]]. Length 2m. Notes: Still clips, colour. ''Score: 3'' | ||
<div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Mercenario Il/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Mercenario, Il/DVD]]</div></div> | <div class="row" style="padding-left:20px;">[[File:Bluraylogo2.gif|40px|link=Mercenario Il/BluRay]] [[File:Dvdlogo2.png|40px|link=Mercenario, Il/DVD]]</div></div> | ||
<div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:TheMercenary.gif]]</div> | <div class="small-12 large-3 columns">[[File:TheMercenary.gif]]</div> |
Revision as of 13:15, 10 June 2015
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A list of the best animated opening credits sequences in Spaghetti Westerns, curated by Michael McGleenan. A lot of the opening titles in these films were created with rotoscope technology, read more about that on Wikipedia. This is version 1 of the list.
I'm fascinated by the animated opening credits created for these westerns. The obvious examples are the 'Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood Trilogy' and the recently re-released 'Day of Anger' movie. I have included the length of time that the animation lasts and placed a score system on the best animation, ranked from 10 downwards. The higher scores have been given to the animation with the best visual impact, as well as the quality of the animation, the length of the animation etc. I reviewed as many movies as possible from my own collection and from online resources. I am sure that there are other movies that deserve to be included in the list, that I have not yet discovered. There seems to be a number of Spaghetti Western trailers with animation sequences but I kept my list to movies with animation in the main feature. There may be trailers that are specific to certain countries and there may also be releases of the same movie that vary in the opening credits. -- Michael McGleenan from Dublin, Ireland.
Recommended reading (external link): Watchthetitles.com
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 2m. Notes: Moving images, colour. Score: 10
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 3m. Notes: Moving images, colour, faces, clips. Score: 9
Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images, colour, faces, clips. Score: 9
Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images, cartoon, colour. Score: 8
Length 2m. Notes: Moving/still images, colour. Score: 7
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 2.5m. Notes: Moving images/clips, faces, colour. Score: 7
Length 1.5m. Notes: Moving/still images, colour. Score: 7
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 3m. Notes: Sketches, clips, colour. Score: 5
Length 2m. Notes: Moving clips, colour. Score: 5
Length 2m. Notes: Still clips, colour. Score: 4
Length 40s. Notes: Still images, clips, colour. Score: 4
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 2m. Notes: Still clips, colour. Score: 3
Animation by Iginio Lardani. Length 5s. Notes: Moving image, colour. Score: 1