Bass, a legend of graphic design, provided Hitchcock and Otto Preminger with many of their iconic title sequences – including the former's Psycho – and worked throughout the golden age, certainly in Britain, of the television titles sequence – the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies.
The television announcers gave the sequence little more than a cursory mention.
Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope of TV Guide named the sequence the second top television moment of the week.
Peter is shown watching Jaws 5 on the television, a sequence which MacFarlane describes as "one of [his] favourite gags [they've] ever done on the show".
I had watched a fair proportion of the games on television, and not only was the treatment technically beyond reproach but the strange tampering with the sequence of time that television is so easily able to indulge in had become almost part of our expectation.
Hebden also used a Creative Labs microphone to record the guitar part for "Slow Jam" and some sounds from television and sequenced the results in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.
The website later named the episode the sixth best example of a television dream sequence, noting that it "suggest[s] how this methodical man [Mulder] might puzzle over cold cases in his subconscious".
Did the sequence of winning numbers shown on two television shows recently match the Powerball numbers?
In another television context — some slick crime procedural or an after-school special — the sequence might feel like melodrama.
The sequence was, overall, one of the most impressive visual spectacles on television and now a new video from visual effects company El Ranchito reveals how it was made.
