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A Pacific Title Title-card for Cheech & Chong's: The Corsican Brothers
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A Pacific Title Title-card for Cheech & Chong's: The Corsican Brothers
Orion Pictures, 1984. Acrylic on glass, framed against a dark background to 20 x 27 in.
Everyone's favorite burnouts, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, wrote and starred in this comedic period film in which the brothers play twins in pre-revolutionary France, a parody of the original Alexandre Dumas novella. The physical comedy erupts from the twins' intense closeness which prompts them to feel each other's pain. Only the most famous stoners in show business could pull off such a ludicrous (and thus hilarious) film project.
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.
20 x 27 in.
Everyone's favorite burnouts, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, wrote and starred in this comedic period film in which the brothers play twins in pre-revolutionary France, a parody of the original Alexandre Dumas novella. The physical comedy erupts from the twins' intense closeness which prompts them to feel each other's pain. Only the most famous stoners in show business could pull off such a ludicrous (and thus hilarious) film project.
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.
20 x 27 in.
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