A title sequence is used to present titles, the cast members and the key production of the movie or programs. This is often done by using visuals and sound. Sound is used to emphasise the mood and genre of the movie/program whereas visuals could be used to help give the viewer a chance to guess the genre and storyline of the movie/program before it starts.Since the invention of the cinematography, simple title cards were used in silent film presentations in order to identify both the film and the production company involved, and to act as a signal that the film had started and then finished. In silent cinema title cards were used throughout to convey dialogue and plot and it is in some of these early short films that we see the first examples of title sequences themselves, being quite literally a series of title cards shown at the beginning of a film.
An example of a silent title sequence : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/A_Farewell_to_Arms_%281932_film%29_title_sequence.ogv
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