What the title sequence for “Planet of The Apes” succeeds so spectacularly at doing, is to immediately persuade the audience to accept the challenging idea that Charlton Heston and his crew are alive in a vastly distant and advanced future. The stainless, antiseptic look of the starship’s bridge; the absence of any sound other than Heston’s voice; the silent ballet of the strangely colored astral bodies moving in the unvisited space outside the ship…all of this was a new vision of the future for 1968. It was a vision of machinery designed not to look like machinery, a statement on how masterful of his environment Man has become. The future looks…well, under control, and therefore looks cool!