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North by Northwest Title Sequence Deconstruction

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    T1
    Metro-Goldwyn Meyer title,
    Distributer/producer credit.
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    0:12 - 0:14
    Blue lines appear diagonally across the screen.
    T2 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer presents...
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    0:27
    T3 Cary Grant; actors credit
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    0:31
    T4 Eva Marie Saint; actors credit
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    0:35
    T5 James Mason; actors credit
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    0:41
    T6 in Alfred Hitchcock's; Directors credit
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    0:46
    T7 Film name, North by Northwest Footnote regarding the motion picture being reserved under international conventions.
  • 0:53 - 1:07

    0:53 - 1:07
    T8 Co-starring credit,
    background transition from blue lines into matching building frames.
  • 1:08

    T9 Written by Ernest Lehmann
  • 1:13

    T10 Music by Bernard Herrmann
  • 1:17

    T11 Director of photography, Robert Burks, A.S.C.
    Technicolor
  • 1:22

    T12 Production, art and set director credits
  • 1:33

    1:33
    T13 VistaVision and other credits
  • 1:44

    1:44
    T14 "The events, characters, and firms depicted in this photography are fictitious, any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms, is purely coincidental" card appears, as well as an Approval certification footnote. Shot fades into a scene of a busy sidewalk, and people entering and leaving a building
  • 1:58

    1:58
    T15 Associate producer Herbert Coleman credit
    People walking on busy staircases and roadsides continues.
  • 2:04 - 2:13

    2:04 - 2:13
    T17 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock credit
    Cuts to Alfred Hitchcock missing the bus and looking angry.