Behold this gorgeous title sequence for ‘Two For The Seesaw’ (1962), starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley McLaine. We’re are in prime, early 60s New York City watching Robert Mitchum do pretty much nothing but walk around, staring impassively at various views and things and somehow conveying everything you can’t write on the page; melancholy, resignation, inner angst etc. The music by Andre Previn is a perfect fit and features fabulous trumpet work by Uan Rasey. Rasey was a first-call trumpet player for MGM and other studio orchestras from 1949 until the early 1970s. He played trumpet for many film soundtracks, including An American in Paris, Ben-Hur, Bye Bye Birdie, Cleopatra, Gigi, How the West Was Won, My Fair Lady, Singin’ in the Rain, Spartacus and West Side Story.n One of his most memorable performances was in the film “All the Fine Young Cannibals” (1960) where he provided the music for Robert Wagner’s trumpet-player character Chad Bixby.  Rasey is also much-admired for  his solo in composer Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated score for Chinatown. But back to ‘Two For The Seesaw’. Mitchum, the score, the setting…it’s not only a vanished New York but a vanished style of credit sequence, achievable only again as pastiche–assuming some film geek director wants to try it. Come to think of it, I might…