I do not normally post Star Wars bits - there are enough folks writing for this website already who still get their Original Trilogy on. [on a personal note, the whole thing began to lose its luster around 1999 when the not-so-swell prequels were farted out at a hype-drowned public concurrently to Mr. Lucas endlessly tinkering with his original baby - often by a cutting a toe off here and painting a new tattoo on there.] However, this is the type of geek-chic creation that puts a smile from ear to ear (says the self-confessed opening credits junkie).

Is there anyone more influential in the ‘opening credits’ department than Saul Bass? Just take any opening credits sequence you’ve seen prior to 1980 –and still remember– and it was probably Bass. From It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World to Seconds to that crazy animated bit in the middle of Vertigo, it’s all S.B. (and this is to say nothing of all the fab One Sheets the man is responsible for).

Some enterprising fellow (a graphic arts student no doubt) has a “what if” version of the opening credits of Star Wars, a great idea and brilliant execution, considering that there were never any opening credits in front of these films. From the miracle of YouTube straight to your undernourished cerebellum.

In the parlance of our site, “It’s under the seat.”

(found over at Looker, via MCN)