Title Sequence
The Daytime Emmy-nominated title sequence (designed by Penelope Gottlieb, with the theme composed by Michael Gore) consisted of different scenarios across the generations. The first photos shown in the sequence are of a rich white family in the Gilded Age and black sharecroppers after Reconstruction, a nod to the supposed ancestors of the white and black families that Generations showed in the modern age. Later pictures in the sequence, both shown in sepia tones and in color, illustrate popular culture and American history throughout the 20th century, with the final pictures focusing on the actual characters of the series themselves.
Some of the clips in popular culture and American history include:
- A white woman working on the home front for the war effort during World War II
- A group of black people, fashionably dressed, enjoying a night out on the town in the 1940s
- A black child greeting her father with a kiss, just home from war
- A black family
- John F. Kennedy on television
- Two white teenagers, in love, feeding each other a banana split
- Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch
- Richard Nixon getting his shoes shined
- The Beatles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Both white and black children being bussed to school
- Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon
- The Freedom Riders, holding up protest signs
- Martin Luther King, Jr. during one of his speeches
- The photograph Burst of Joy
- Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev
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