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Dallas - The Original Series
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 369716" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>I'm not universally fond of the credits do-over for Season 8 (DVD count) in 1984.</p><p></p><p>The shots of the city are okay (although I have issues with some of their placement) and so are their composition, but the new images of Dallas manage to be both brighter and somehow darker simultaneously.</p><p></p><p>The credits from the first seven seasons were filmed during the winter of 1977/78, a bright, sunny, crisp-looking day.</p><p></p><p>But I heard somewhere (probably a tabloid) during the summer of 1984 that the opening DALLAS credits were being re-done, so I was excited and curious about how they'd look... That same summer, the Republican convention was held in Dallas, and whichever network was running it had spectacular sunset-y shots going into and coming out of the commercial breaks.</p><p></p><p>I was <em><strong>soooo</strong></em> disappointed that fall when the new season premiered, and all the new shots of Dallas were comparatively cloudy and over-cast --- bright in a way, drably yucky in another way. (Which seemed strangely appropriate for that ambivalent Donna Reed year). And never mind the childish reconstituted version from 1989 to 1991, which decided to mix actors' headshots with <strong>old </strong>shots of the skyline matching each drumbeat -- a potentially acceptable change in style if they'd bothered to update the images of the city... otherwise, it comes off as desperate.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://nikonites.com/forum/attachments/dallas0002_2-jpg.509/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 369716, member: 57984"] I'm not universally fond of the credits do-over for Season 8 (DVD count) in 1984. The shots of the city are okay (although I have issues with some of their placement) and so are their composition, but the new images of Dallas manage to be both brighter and somehow darker simultaneously. The credits from the first seven seasons were filmed during the winter of 1977/78, a bright, sunny, crisp-looking day. But I heard somewhere (probably a tabloid) during the summer of 1984 that the opening DALLAS credits were being re-done, so I was excited and curious about how they'd look... That same summer, the Republican convention was held in Dallas, and whichever network was running it had spectacular sunset-y shots going into and coming out of the commercial breaks. I was [I][B]soooo[/B][/I][B] [/B]disappointed that fall when the new season premiered, and all the new shots of Dallas were comparatively cloudy and over-cast --- bright in a way, drably yucky in another way. (Which seemed strangely appropriate for that ambivalent Donna Reed year). And never mind the childish reconstituted version from 1989 to 1991, which decided to mix actors' headshots with [B]old [/B]shots of the skyline matching each drumbeat -- a potentially acceptable change in style if they'd bothered to update the images of the city... otherwise, it comes off as desperate. [IMG]https://nikonites.com/forum/attachments/dallas0002_2-jpg.509/[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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