Nowadays, an effect like this would be trivial, but the series spent decades trying deliberately not to show this movement under the grounds that it would be unconvincing, despite it being executed seamlessly almost right at the very beginning. There is a cut to facilitate this, but it's very subtle and the mind refuses to register it. In "The Sensorites", there's the major technical triumph of showing the TARDIS crew going through the TARDIS control room, leaving the doors and stepping out onto the spaceship they've landed on in one continuous, seamless movement.You'd be amazed at the difference a few random twitches and slight back and forth movements make to bring those things to life. Especially when the guys inside the Dalek casings remember to move around a bit. Say what you will about the Daleks, their original body and voice designs are superb, rubber plungers notwithstanding.You'll have your favourites, but all of them are gorgeous. From the ghostly streaming white lights morphing into letters of the 60s, to the swirling and brightly-coloured lights morphing into the face of the Doctor in the early 70s, to the gorgeous kaleidoscoping 2001: A Space Odyssey-inspired "time tunnel" in the mid-to-late 70s, the Doctor's face emerging from a howling starfield in the 80s, the early CGI for the late 80s showing the TARDIS trapped in a bubble, the modern CGI for the TV Movie and the new series. All of the title sequences are just beautiful even after the technology has moved past whatever they were made with.Effects so good it can mesmerise and suck you in.There are many wonders of the universe in Doctor Who, and the BBC has the amazing efforts (and CGI) to show you all of them.
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