Forget the Film, Watch the Titles - Pablo The Movie title sequence. Finally, a proper documentary about one of the last living legends of title design, Mr. Pablo Ferro. Ferro was part of the generation of title designers who emerged in the 1950s and 1960s (including Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn, Saul Bass, and others) who incorporated the visual language of graphic design and popular culture into film. With their individual and innovative approaches, these designers set the standard for contemporary title design.
A first teaser of Pablo – The Movie appeared on the web more than five years ago, promising an original blend of live action, motion graphics and animation. Pablo finally premiered earlier this year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Read on to find out why you must see this film. Pablo - The Movie (stills). Director Richard Goldgewicht went to great lengths to track down and interview over 40 people –friends, family and collegues– who speak openly and frankly about both professional and personal high and lows in Ferro's life. Pablo The Movie: interview with director Richard... | HERTJE.com. Part of a feature on Wach the Titles:watchthetitles.com/articles/00254-Pablo_The_Movie Finally, a proper documentary about one of the last living legends of title design, Mr.
Pablo Ferro. Ferro was part of the generation of title designers who emerged in the 1950s and 1960s (including Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn, Saul Bass, and others) who incorporated the visual language of graphic design and popular culture into film. With their individual and innovative approaches, these designers set the standard for contemporary title design. A first teaser of Pablo – The Movie appeared on the web more than five years ago, promising an original blend of live action, motion graphics and animation. Pablo finally premiered earlier this year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. We took the opportunity to talk to director Richard Goldgewicht about his film (now touring festivals worldwide) and about his subject, Pablo Ferro.
Pablo The Movie 2012. Pablo Ferro and Dr. Strangelove. Quick Cuts, Coarse Letters, Multiple Screens: by Steven Heller. Quick Cuts, Coarse Letters, Multiple Screens: by Steven Heller An overview of the work of Cuban-born titling artist Pablo Ferro who broke ground with the titles for films like Dr. Strangelove and pioneered moving type for the screen. As an attack on cold war hysteria there was no more biting comedy than Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 doomsday film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, in which an over zealous US general, Jack D.
Ripper, launches an A-Bomb attack against the USSR. This send-up of nightmare scenarios depicted in the nuclear dramas Fail Safe and On The Beach fiercely lampooned the era’s hawkish fanaticism, suggesting that the world was close to the brink of the unthinkable. Ferro’s next title for The Thomas Crown Affair, also directed by Jewison in 1968, introduced multi-screen effects for the first time in any feature motion picture and defined a cinematic style of the late 1960s.
“Jewison and Ashby went Wow!