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The graphic opening credits for the 1964 psychological thriller Dead Ringer were created by the famous animation and title design studio DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. The Opening Credits Sequence: The sequence is rendered as a minimalist, dark graphic animation set against a black background with music composed by André Previn. It visually introduces the film’s central theme—identical twin sisters caught in a web of identity theft and murder: • The Separate Silhouettes: The sequence opens with two identical, stylized high-contrast silhouettes of a woman's face, shown in profile facing opposite directions. • The Movement: The two profiles slowly glide horizontally across the screen toward one another. • The Overlap and Fusion: As they collide in the center, they don't bounce off each other. Instead, they seamlessly cross over and fuse. When they merge, a striking graphical optical illusion is created—the overlapping negative space between the two profiles perfectly aligns to reveal a single, solid silhouette of a woman's face looking directly forward at the audience. This haunting visual transition perfectly foreshadows how one twin (played by Bette Davis) will violently overwrite and absorb the identity of the other.