http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1i_t-hHqII

Disclaimer: this sequence uses ten of my fonts...

1 • Cinema

¶ The Andromeda Strain (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtilblrLhMs

2 • Television

¶ The Name of the Game (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa781A8aU7M

Loved the sequence Nick - disclaimer not needed -

Bullit. Not so much for the fonts per se, but for the motion graphics.
http://vimeo.com/31909849

In general, I find the hand lettering of older movies way more interesting than latter-day fonts.

¶ The Name of the Game (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa781A8aU7M

Try to identify the sans they used back then: the main titles+the yellow opening credits.

From hazy memory:
Cape Fear?
Catch Me If You Can?

hhp

Very type-y:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/thank-you-for-smoking/

I also quite like the '70s-style titles in Tarantino's films. For example:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/machete/

(Edit: Oops! That's Rodriguez, not Tarantino. Sorry for the confusion. Same idea, basically.)

Moonrise Kingdom's titles were pretty neat (with a custom font by Jessica Hische):

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/moonrise-kingdom/