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A Pacific Title Title-card for Zorro
4 – 14 June 2024, 12:00 PDT
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A Pacific Title Title-card for Zorro
Acrylic on glass, framed against a dark background to 23 1/2 x 35 in.
ABC, 1957-1961. The concept of alter ego superheroes was so popular with audiences that comic books, novels, films, and television continued to produce output to satisfy the masses. In this television series produced by Walt Disney Productions (they later would add several "specials" to the series extending its run to 1961), handsome Guy Williams plays a studious young man who happens to be an excellent swordsman who, under the guise of Zorro, is called upon by his father to help fight bandits.
Pacific Title Company was founded in the 1920s to provide title sequences for silent films. When the industry transitioned to sound, Pacific Title pivoted to focus on opening and closing credit sequences. The artists at Pacific painted title and credit material on large sheets of glass, which were then filmed before a painted backdrop or composited over a film's introductory shots. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Pacific Title and Art Company produced the lion's share of titles for the Hollywood film industry, until technological advances made the glass plate process archaic. The company archived its work over the decades, creating a living history of the American motion picture industry. This example comes to us directly from the Pacific Title archive.
Provenance: from the Pacific Title archives.
23 1/2 x 35 in.
ABC, 1957-1961. The concept of alter ego superheroes was so popular with audiences that comic books, novels, films, and television continued to produce output to satisfy the masses. In this television series produced by Walt Disney Productions (they later would add several "specials" to the series extending its run to 1961), handsome Guy Williams plays a studious young man who happens to be an excellent swordsman who, under the guise of Zorro, is called upon by his father to help fight bandits.
Pacific Title Company was founded in the 1920s to provide title sequences for silent films. When the industry transitioned to sound, Pacific Title pivoted to focus on opening and closing credit sequences. The artists at Pacific painted title and credit material on large sheets of glass, which were then filmed before a painted backdrop or composited over a film's introductory shots. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Pacific Title and Art Company produced the lion's share of titles for the Hollywood film industry, until technological advances made the glass plate process archaic. The company archived its work over the decades, creating a living history of the American motion picture industry. This example comes to us directly from the Pacific Title archive.
Provenance: from the Pacific Title archives.
23 1/2 x 35 in.
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