Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
2014FoxNational GeographicDocumentary
Alan Silvestri scoring the observable universe, in a sequence that treats scale itself as the spectacle.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, covering season 1.
It arrived on Fox in 2014, when The X-Files, MADtv and So You Think You Can Dance were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept — the available upload is a 60fps re-render offered for download rather than the broadcast sequence.
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