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Digging back in the ole memory cells, I seem to recall that there were two versions of the GWTW opening title sequence, with one were the title text is seen as just the full text, no animation; the other version has the letters of the title animated to move from the right of the screen across to the left (the more common one) left with what I can only assume, is meant to look like "wind" streaming off the letters (always thought that was pretty silly). Can anyone recall what was the origin of those two different openings? Were they both part of the original 1939 release for some reason, or are they from different releases (one of the umpteenth times this title was rereleased) at different times? Perhaps the animation version was generated for that abominable 70mm "wide screen" release. I did run it in both 35mm and 16mm and I am thinking it was the 16,, print that had the non-animated title card, although I can't be sure of that.
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Gone With The Wind was reframed several times for re-release; from Academy to Widescreen in the 1950s, and to 2.20 70mm at some point in the late 1960s. Viewed in Academy, the original 1939 scrolling title tales up a lot of the frame, and I imagine that it would have looked overwhelming in a cropped image. I'm not sure if the static card was cut in for the Widescreen release, but I know the 70mm prints had it. -
Every version of GWTW I've ever seen or shown had the sideways-scrolling title
text at the beginning, but that doesn't rule out that there may have been another
version. U-Tube has several versions of the opening credits of GWTW, which
mostly differ in cropping, but all have the sideways scroll main title. I vaguely
remember when GWTW was first shown on TV in the late 70's, I couldn't tell
how the title looked. (There's a lot of stuff I don't remember from the 1970's!)Comment
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