A short history of video graphics
Or, every Doctor Who intro sequence ever–spanning the past half-century of TV in just under seven minutes.
This also serves as a neat illustration of the tug-of-war between novelty and nostalgia. Notice how the titles are steadily “upgraded” with the new technology of each decade. We reach a dance-remix-and-flying-3D-text climax sometime in the mid-’90s–and then, photorealistic computer animation having become commonplace, we make an abrupt about-face, heading back to the classic ’70s we’re-zoomin’-through-a-tube version.