“Citizens Band” titles

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"Ferro’s title design for Citizens Band echoes the glare and flash of roadside lights and electronic communications, including the mazelike guts of the radios. Set to the buzzing, hissing, and fragmenting sounds of CB-radio connections and conversations, the titles look 'inside of the CB radios, all the electronic connectors and all that stuff,' according to Ferro. 'I pulled them apart to stage them for a stop-motion shoot. I photographed them, using special lenses, and animated them on a stand' using an animation camera.... His aesthetic—fast-paced 'quick-cut' editing (which he is known for pioneering) merged with stop-motion animation—reflected his era and has endured as a modus operandi for the media age."—Louise Sandhaus, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986, pp. 194