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1939 film Union Pacific uses this style but only for the opening credits, in a sequence superimposed over railroad tracks going off into the horizon.
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Of course, Star Wars pilfered the idea from the movie serials Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, dating respectively from 19.The 1980 sci-fi spoof Galaxina opens like this for exposition rather than gags so it's not particularly funny.In the Thumb Wars parody, the spacecraft involved in the opening battle sequence end up crashing into the text which of course is still floating through space ahead of them.In the Star Wars spoof Spaceballs, as the expository scroll is disappearing into the distance, a small line of text suddenly appears at the end: "If you can read this, you don't need glasses.".(It does provide written exposition as the movie starts, just not in scroll form or with the bombastic theme.) The Opening Scroll is apparently only going to be used for the numbered Episodes of the Skywalker Saga.
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note Although the first one needed Brian De Palma to rewrite it to be the classic it is. The most famous example is undoubtedly Star Wars, whose "into the screen" scroll spawned a thousand spoofs and imitators.