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** ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' has lawn-mower strips, and so on.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' shows Star-Lord exploring planet Morag, while dancing and singing along to "Come and Get Your Love" playing on his Walkman. ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' shows Baby Groot dancing while the other Guardians fight an Abelisk.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' shows Star-Lord exploring planet Morag, while dancing and singing along to "Come and Get Your Love" playing on his Walkman.

* ''Series/BarnabyJones'' has an animated opening based around a motif of rectangles suggesting pieces of a jigsaw puzzle being put together.
** Quinn Martin productions tended to do this: dots for ''Series/{{Cannon}}'', lawn-mower strips for ''Series/{{Kojak}}'', etc.

* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'' uses circles of varying sizes, notably to frame star William Conrad and the guest stars and "splotch" all over the screen to introduce each act.

** ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' has white line segments moving into position on uneven alignments across a black background.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' in its first 10 years, from Creator/WilliamHartnell to Creator/JonPertwee's years used very abstract imagery created by pointing a camera at its own monitor. Then, in Pertwee's final season and all but Creator/TomBaker's season, a tunnel filled with ribbons of light supposedly representing the Time Vortex (made even clearer with Tom Baker's title sequence, the first shot of which showing the TARDIS flying towards the camera). The first seasons of the '80s, starting with Tom Baker's final season and concluding with Creator/ColinBaker's final one used a fully animated starfield flythrough. And with Creator/SylvesterMcCoy era onwards used the TARDIS flying through CGI (with [=McCoy=]'s title sequence being a galaxy of which the middle evaporates and forms his face, Creator/PaulMcGann's one from Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie and Creator/ChristopherEccleston's and Creator/DavidTennant's were a more traditional time vortex akin to the one featured in the Pertwee and T. Baker eras, and Creator/MattSmith's was a storm cloud-like vortex for the bulk of his tenure, and a mixture of generally all of the above for the second half of his latest season).

* The American ''TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'' has this. It's dark and beautiful; it feels like the beginning of a ''Film/JamesBond'' title, if done by [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] -- which fittingly enough, it is.

* The opening title for ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' has this quote appear on the screen with each letter appearing in alphabetical order:

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is likely a reference to ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Pierrot_leFou Pierrot le Fou]]''

->“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
-> I did.
->And what did you want?
-> To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film.

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is in very similar fashion to ''{{Film/Pierrot le Fou}}''

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is in very similar fashion to ''{{Film/Pierrot_leFou}}''

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is in very similar fashion to ''Film/Pierrot_leFou''

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is in very similar fashion to ''Film/{{Pierrot_leFou}}''

The letters then disappear and are replaced by the title of the film. This is in very similar fashion to ''Film/Pierrot_leFou''

* Creator/SaulBass was the king of this trope. To describe some of his title sequences:

* The breathtaking title sequence from ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', which combines several of the most iconic images from the second half of 20th century (the Hiroshima bomb, the V-J Day kiss, the JFK assasination, Vietnamese self immolation, "Flower Power", the moon landing, the Son of Sam murders) with the alt-U images of the Watchmen timeline, all to the tune of Creator/BobDylan's "The Times, They Are a-Changin'".

The websites [[http://www.artofthetitle.com Art of the Title]] and [[http://www.watchthetitles.com Watch the Titles]] showcase plenty of these.

The [[http://www.artofthetitle.com Art of the Title]] website has a large collection of these.

Sometimes this will take the form of [[AnimatedCreditsOpening a cartoon version of the characters]] (''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''), a flyby of the setting (''Series/StargateAtlantis'', ''Series/{{Newhart}}'') or simply a bunch of special effects. These elements are often used in tandem with a TitleMontage.

* WesternAnimation/DuckTales: The opening features clips from the show - as well as clips that never made it into the show (i.e. an alien stealing a dollar bill from Scrooge, a tiger hugging Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Webby kissing a shark)

** [[NauseaFuel And the fox]].

Sometimes this will take the form of [[AnimatedCreditsOpening a cartoon version of the characters]] (''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''), a flyby of the setting (''Series/StargateAtlantis'', ''{{Newhart}}'') or simply a bunch of special effects. These elements are often used in tandem with a TitleMontage.

* ''Series/NightAndDay'''s stylised opening sequence features video headshots of the main characters (either smiling or scowling, usually towards the FourthWall), in a series of quick transitions incorporating images from the show's locations. Colouring is predominantly red and black, as with the final title card and break bumper; and the sequence ends on a smiling Jane, while the words 'NIGHT' and 'DAY' drift from left and right towards a static 'AND' in the foreground, with the 'D' in the AND and the DAY eventually overlapping so that it finally reads 'NIGHTANDAY'.

* ''Series/NightAndDay'''s stylised opening sequence featured video headshots of the main characters (either smiling or scowling, usually towards the Fourth Wall), in a series of quick transitions incorporating images from the show's locations. Colouring is predominantly red and black, as with the final title card and break bumper; and the sequence ends on a smiling Jane Harper, whose disappearance forms the show's central storyline, while the words 'NIGHT AND DAY' drift together in the foreground, with the 'D' in the AND and the DAY overlapping so that it finally reads 'NIGHTANDAY'. The characters of Steph and Kate, who weren't present at the show's outset, are added a few weeks in the run. But curiously, the show later on occasion uses a rare version of the titles that not only omits these characters, but also the actual title of the show. Curiouser still, another version exists whose only difference from the usual sequence is that the merging of the letter 'D' doesn't occur. Whether these oddities are stylistic choices or production mistakes is difficult to say.