History Main / OpeningScroll

* ''The Phantom Creeps'', a serial starring Creator/BelaLugosi as a MadScientist used the same fading away from camera opening crawl. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel Robinson]] riffed, "You sure Lucas was the first to do this?"

* The Platform/GameBoy version of ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' has an opening scroll introduction, before the title screen.

* The UsefulNotes/GameBoy version of ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' has an opening scroll introduction, before the title screen.

* ''Browning'', a UsefulNotes/PCEngine game by Creator/TelenetJapan, has a scroll in Japanese with a voiceover in English, even though the game was released in Japan only.

* ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga'': The game itself averts this trope by placing the opening text ("In another time in another world...") on a static screen in AttractMode. However, the promotional video ''The Legend of Namco'' (1986) gives it the epic scrolling treatment, with a narrator reading the text in English.

* ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga'': The game itself averts this trope by placing the opening text ("In another time in another world...") on a static screen in AttractMode. However, a [[https://youtu.be/-lXV9eanpBY?t=1126 promotional video]] gives it the epic scrolling treatment, with a narrator reading the text in English.

* ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga'': The game itself averts this trope by placing the opening text ("In another time in another world...") on a static screen in AttractMode. However, a [[https://youtu.be/-lXV9eanpBY?t=1126 promotional video]] gives it the epic scrolling treatment, with a narrator reading the text in SurprisinglyGoodEnglish.

* WebVideo/TerribleWritingAdvice has "Exposition" episode that begins with an opening where the text slowly moves in front of JP. Meanwhile, JP discusses the Opening Scroll, yearning the old days where it was frequently used by the authors to frontload information to the audience without a care.

* Probably the worst filmic offender of all: Creator/UweBoll's film adaptation of ''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'' delivered its entire backstory in a [[FadeIn fade-in]][=-=]fade-out series of title cards that took almost ''seven minutes'' of screen time; as warned above, it's dull enough to kill most viewers' enthusiasm for the film about ninety seconds in. And the worse part? The opening crawl in the final movie was the ''improved'' version where they added a narrator to read the text out loud after test audiences complained that the opening was too wordy. The combination of dry line reads and white-on-black title cards have been clocked at killing enthusiasm in 32.83 seconds.

* All of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' games use this during the opening. In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 first]], it explains humanity's entry into the galactic community, in the second, it summarizes the events and ramifications of what happened at the end of the first, and in the [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 third]], it describes the build-up to and beginnings of the Reaper invasion.

* Probably the worst filmic offender of all: Creator/UweBoll's film adaptation of ''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'' delivered its entire backstory in a fade-in-fade-out series of title cards that took almost ''seven minutes'' of screen time; as warned above, it's dull enough to kill most viewers' enthusiasm for the film about ninety seconds in. And the worse part? The opening crawl in the final movie was the ''improved'' version where they added a narrator to read the text out loud after test audiences complained that the opening was too wordy. The combination of dry line reads and white-on-black title cards have been clocked at killing enthusiasm in 32.83 seconds.

** ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' swaps out the opening scroll for static text that slowly fades in, like a very creepy [=PowerPoint=] presentation.

* The European release of the ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' has an opening scroll after a brief sequence showing Unicron devouring a planet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' has an opening scroll after a brief sequence showing Unicron devouring a planet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' has an opening scroll after the sequence of Unicron devouring a planet.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' opens with a quick text scroll to refresh people's memories about "The Best of Both Worlds", just before they introduce Captain Sisko in the Battle of Wolf 359.
** Likewise, ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' starts off with a quick description of ''Deep Space Nine'' and the surrounding conflicts, providing the necessary groundwork before going off and doing its own thing. (First shot immediately after this: A small rebel ship flying away and trading fire with a much larger vessel. Hmmm...)

** ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame Lego Star Wars]]'' has a "story so far" opening scroll for each level that also serves as a LoadingScreen.