The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - title sequence

Beautiful intro to the 70s TV show. Please see my interpretation of this in my videos...

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[TheWhupper]

Oh for goodness sake. Why is there 60 seconds of blank footage in this video ?

[danpetley]

@TheWhupper There isn't, you must be hallucinating!

[jigglebop99]

why dont we make sitcoms anymore? i can think of only one on at the moment thats english. discuss

[danpetley]

i think there are enough classic british sitcoms that crap all over american stuff, we have already proved ourselves, our legacy is cast in stone!

[EASYTIGER10]

This always used to fascinate me as a child, because it's virtually impossible to tell when he turns round and starts swimming back. I used to watch avidly trying to work it out.

That was before mum sent me to the asylum of course.

[LegionOfTheSun]

Worked for me ;)

[kisbie]

@EASYTIGER10 You are correct. The dip is to mask the moment where Rossiter disappears and a stunt Reggie pops up and goes in the freezing water (you can see that the transition is not totally seamless, but is partly helped by the fast speed the sequence is played at). And he turns back round to shore at 0:31.

[hellier0898]

PS... The camera doesnt dip. There is a really sharp drop on the shingle beach that gives that impression, but it's actuallY leonard Rossiter dipping out of site because it's such a sharp decline on that beach

[hellier0898]

That's West Bay near me in Dorset, right at the start you'll see a cliff behind him. I was up the top of that cliff last week with my son!

[EASYTIGER10]

Does anyone know why the camera dips at 0:15? We've already seen his bum, so its not that. Is it to hide the fact its actually a stunt-Reggie doing the swim?

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[7777blues]

@EASYTIGER10 hope you have been released 

[syrka2000]

I still remember this music, though I haven't heard it for 20 years...

[Vincent777Legion1]

I prefer'd this stuff to cartoons, all the oldies ... can't beat them, real golden era of true genius.If fry would get of his horse he could write plenty, his the last of the great minds for me and does not seem to really make use of it.His to fixed on social networking sites trying keep with the youth.

In about 20 years or less it going to be so dire, so far worse then it is at the present.

[perrin6]

@TheLastYogurt YES I HAVE ! - and I remember enjoying it, a long time ago though. It seems to be one of those good movies that are no longer shown on TV because it doesn't have guns and bombs going off every 5 seconds, silly romances or pathetic comedy. Zelig is another that comes to mind and there are many many more, I'm sure. My last yoghurt was a plain one from sainsburys - v. dissapointing compared with the lovely creamy Devon yoghurt I used to get in my organic veg box.

[TheLastYogurt]

@perrin6 Have you seen the film My Dinner with Andre (1981)? If not, I recommend it.