One of the big things I miss about TV from my childhood is now imaginative trailers, idents, and even commercials, were.
Now it all feels bland and cookie cutter, which isn't surpsiring given that there's a million channels and a finite number of viewers.
Also on this point I fucking LOVE the title sequences for TV shows from the pre-digital age' so much passion going into a lot of them, like these titles for The South Bank Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVfQB5HSfFQ
@renbymon huge mood wolf friend
@trans_lykanthropie everything just feels really bland nowadays; live action footage with some fancy graphics but nothing that really engages.
Also I do believe that a lot of titles/trailers/idents/adverts (at least here in the UK) were done by people who'd studied art and wanted to reference their favourite artists
@trans_lykanthropie ohhhh I wasn't aware of that, but it does make sense with how graphic/horrifying some of them were!
@renbymon yup, knowing zhat one fact explains all zhe nightmarish horrors -shivers-
@trans_lykanthropie *hug ada wolf friend tight*
@renbymon I know a lot of zhe old Public Information Films were made by new film school graduates who wanted to get into horror films and such so I wouldn't be surprised if zhere was somezhing like zhat for artists and animators