AO version, the titles appear against a completely  black background. After the credits, the black background fades out to reveal  two rows of giant cornstalks, through which the camera tracks,until it finds  Gordon MacRae,who then begins singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin". In the  CinemaScope version, we first see the cornstalks, the camera tracks through  them; then, as the words "Rodgers and Hammerstein present" appear onscreen,  Gordon MacRae appears and rides up to the camera and then past it off left,  as the title "Oklahoma!" appears. The rest of the opening credits in this  version are shown against,first, a background of a barn, then, a meadow with  a tree nearby. As the credits end, the camera cuts back to MacRae and he  begins singing. At the end of the Todd