Analysis of favourite film's title sequence

My favourite film is The King And I, a beautiful movie which was also later re-created into a Disney animation (which I haven't seen)

 
1956


1999

The title sequence, as we can see is over still images. Nonetheless, a wonderful soundtrack plays in the background through its course, which isn't very long, actually:

Order of titles:

Main roles

Screenplay

Music

Based on the Musical

Dances and music numbers staged by

Music supervised and constructed WITH associate AND orchestration

Costume Designer

Director of Photography

Art Direction

Set Direction

Special Photographic Effects

Film Editor

Ballet Arrangements by

Consultant in Oriental Dancing

Assistant Director

Makeup

Hair

Sound x2

Colour

Producer

Director

I love the way the title sequence gives us a sense of what the movie is about: music, dance, culture, beautiful intricate design. The text is almost calligraphic, gold, and varies in size, for the title and the name(s). The still image shown through contains 3 images - a patterned floor, a temple building and clouds above. Though simple, this tells us that this movie is about wealth, and will probably be filmed inside of a building like this, but it leaves us to wonder what the storyline'll be, so it may have been nicer if the titles were shown over some narrative, but overall, I love this sequence and wouldn't change any aspect of it.