Here's how I have done it. Draw the room(s) that you want as your background as a pic resource. Draw any animation on top of the background view resources. Under your initialization code for the first room script, insert "send gEgo:hide()" (without the quotes) Then use method changeState as outlined in Brian's tutorial to step through the different animations. The last state should be "send gRoom:newRoom(2)" (or whatever room is the "Real" first room.
If you follow King's Quest 4's example, you should provide a button asking if it is the player's first time playing the game, so they have a choice of watching the movie each time.
Hope this helps.
