{"id":672,"date":"2008-02-25T22:26:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/for-your-consideration-the-oscars-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:46:59","slug":"for-your-consideration-the-oscars-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/for-your-consideration-the-oscars-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Consideration: The Oscars opener."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idents.org\/312x89\/oscars08.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"nz\" alt=\"idents\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"312\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/beohm.com\/identica\/tv\/oscars08opening.mp4\">Quicktime H.264<\/a><br \/>\n(34.6mb)<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/beohm.com\/identica\/tv\/oscars08opening.m4v\">iPod Compatible<\/a><br \/>\n(18mb)<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/idents.tv\/videos\/oscars08opening.html\">Watch in Flash<\/a><br \/>\n(9.4mb progressive)<\/p>\n<p>While there isn&#8217;t an Oscar category for title design yet (the proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscars#Proposed_Awards\">was rejected<\/a> in 1999) it shouldn&#8217;t stop us from looking at the Academy&#8217;s own opening credits.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think TCM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/a-fresh-paint-of-oscar-brilliance\/\">creative and mesmerising take on the movie montage<\/a> would have served as a much more eloquent introduction to the 80th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title sequence for the Oscars (18mb) >> To comment and see other videos visit www.idents.tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[343,340],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos-tv","tag-cinema","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}