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"Altered States"

Director Ken Russell's head-tripping 1980 sci-fi flick, in which a scientist immerses himself in the world of hallucinogens, only to metamorphose into a primeval creature, was graced with an elegantly sinister title sequence in which (as in "Alien") the film's title slowly reveals itself bit by bit. Like a scrim over an image of William Hurt floating in an isolation tank, text floats across the screen as the cast and filmmakers' names appear. The words eventually envelop and subsume the human being. Title design: Richard Greenberg. Music: John Corigliano.

• Feb 23, 2016
• 01:15

"The Shining"

Stanley Kubrick's films are never wasteful, and the director's trademark precision was never more chilling than in his 1980 horror classic. In the brief time of his opening titles (shot at Glacier National Park), he uses soaring cinematography and Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's ethereal synthesizers to paint the isolation and dread of a car venturing up a lonely highway into the mountains. The camera's eye, hovering above like God, watches the driver - so small in the wilderness - head towards his doom.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 02:47

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

The titles of Robert Mulligan's film adaptation of the Harper Lee classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) beautifully evoke memories of an insular, innocent childhood - a cigar box, filled with treasured toys; scribbling with crayons; a little girl's laugh. Beautifully composed, and supported by Elmer Bernstein's exquisite music, the sequence introduces viewers to Scout Finch's world, a place that would be irreparably altered by fear, hate and violence. Title design: Stephen Frankfurt.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 02:58

"Vertigo"

A master of movie title design, Saul Bass' early work for Alfred Hitchcock produced some of the most striking moments in cinema history. His titles for "Vertigo" (1958), about a San Francisco detective's romantic obsessions and wounded psyche, are a modernist classic of spirographic designs blended with fragmented views of a woman's face, supported by Bernard Herrmann's wounded soul of a score. "Vertigo" inspired countless movie title sequences for years to come, and Bass himself revisited these graphic elements in his titles for Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" and Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus."

• Feb 21, 2016
• 02:58

"Goldfinger"

Maurice Binder launched the James Bond franchise's reputation for stunning opening title sequences with "Dr No" in 1962, but it was the next two films - "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger," both designed by Robert Brownjohn - that set the template for all future Bond entries. "Goldfinger" blends projections of Bond's superspy world onto the curves of a gold-painted woman, to the tune of Shirley Bassey's immortal theme song. The visuals deconstruct all the elements that would become key to Bond's milieu: cool gadgets, sports cars, deadly weapons, super villains, and the objectified bodies of women, some of whom don't survive to the end credits.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 02:47

Passage: Harper Lee

An American treasure is being mourned: Harper Lee, who passed away Friday in Monroeville, Ala., at age 89

• Feb 21, 2016

When the temperature turns frigid in the mountains of Nagano, Japan, snow monkeys come seeking warmth in the local hot baths

When the temperature turns frigid in the mountains of Nagano, Japan, snow monkeys come seeking warmth in the local hot baths. Seth Doane has a report on the annual visitation - of both Japanese macaques, and of the tourists who avidly photograph them.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 03:37

A young boy in Michigan helped coordinate an appreciation event for his heroes

11-year-old throws "Thank You" party for police A young boy in Michigan helped coordinate an appreciation event for his heroes: the men in blue. Steve Hartman went to the party, where more than 250 showed up to support their police officers - and to say "thank you" to their young fan.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 02:36

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays crazy, and may win an Oscar for it

Jennifer Jason Leigh won fans, but no Oscar, for her breakout role in the 1982 film, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

• Feb 21, 2016

Charles Osgood takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead, from National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, to the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the 1965 Voting Rights Marchers

Charles Osgood takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead, from National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, to the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the 1965 Voting Rights Marchers.

• Feb 21, 2016
• 01:01