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About Saul Bass...
Saul Bass,(1920-1996)
American motion-picture
designer-director,
especially noted for
imaginative, animated
titles, prologues, and
epilogues.
Bass studied at the Arts
Students League in New
York City, attended
Brooklyn College, and
worked as a freelance
designer before moving to
Los Angeles in 1946.
Bass successfully directed and
produced short animated films,
television openings and
commercials, live documentaries,
and features.
It was, however, his creative
art direction of such motion
pictures as Around the World in
Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo
(1958), Psycho (1960), Spartacus
(1960) etc.
Analysis of Saul
Bass’ Title
Sequences...
Watch Title Sequence
Watch Title
Some of his
work…
1950s
Watch Title
1960s
Watch Title Sequence
What Saul Bass thought
about design...
“I want everything
we do to be
beautiful. I don’t
give a damn whether
the client
understands that
that’s worth
anything, or that
the client thinks
it’s worth anything,
or whether it is
worth anything. It’s
worth it to me. It’s
the way I want to
live my life. I want
to make beautiful
things, even if
nobody cares. “
—Saul Bass
Work which Bass has
inspired and
influenced...
Steven Spielberg’s
2002 Catch Me If
You Can, created
by Florence Deygas
& Olivier Kuntzel.
Saul Bass’ work
influenced generations
of graphic designers to
follow and transform the
ordinary movie title
sequence into an art
form in itself.
Various film
title
sequences
and movie
posters
In 1958, Saul Bass
worked once more
with Otto
Preminger for
Anatomy of a
Murder. I think
his deconstructive
technique works
especially well
the dead body, and
is a clever play
of the “anatomy”
part of the film’s
title.
The design
influence for
the Anatomy of a
Murder poster is
evident in the
poster for
Clockers (Spike
Lee, 1995). This
was not put
together by
Bass.
Most recently, a homage to
Saul Bass in this poster
for Precious (Lee Daniels,
2009).
Thanks for watching

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Saul Bass

  • 1.
  • 2. About Saul Bass... Saul Bass,(1920-1996) American motion-picture designer-director, especially noted for imaginative, animated titles, prologues, and epilogues. Bass studied at the Arts Students League in New York City, attended Brooklyn College, and worked as a freelance designer before moving to Los Angeles in 1946.
  • 3. Bass successfully directed and produced short animated films, television openings and commercials, live documentaries, and features. It was, however, his creative art direction of such motion pictures as Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Spartacus (1960) etc.
  • 4. Analysis of Saul Bass’ Title Sequences...
  • 10. What Saul Bass thought about design...
  • 11. “I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. “ —Saul Bass
  • 12.
  • 13. Work which Bass has inspired and influenced...
  • 14. Steven Spielberg’s 2002 Catch Me If You Can, created by Florence Deygas & Olivier Kuntzel. Saul Bass’ work influenced generations of graphic designers to follow and transform the ordinary movie title sequence into an art form in itself. Various film title sequences and movie posters
  • 15. In 1958, Saul Bass worked once more with Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder. I think his deconstructive technique works especially well the dead body, and is a clever play of the “anatomy” part of the film’s title. The design influence for the Anatomy of a Murder poster is evident in the poster for Clockers (Spike Lee, 1995). This was not put together by Bass. Most recently, a homage to Saul Bass in this poster for Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009).

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  1. Saul Bass,(1920-1996) American motion-picture designer-director, especially noted for imaginative, animated titles, prologues, and epilogues. Bass studied at the Arts Students League in New York City, attended Brooklyn College, and worked as a freelance designer before moving to Los Angeles in 1946.
  2. Bass successfully directed and produced short animated films, television openings and commercials, live documentaries, and features. It was, however, his creative art direction of such motion pictures as Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Spartacus (1960) etc.
  3. Bass’ titles for the film feature spiny, cut-out projectiles, vaguely redolent of veins and syringes, that manages to be disconcerting despite the accompaniment of Elmer Bernstein’s rather brassy jazz score. The lines proliferate and jab at awkward, unsettling angles with respect to the titles. And the title of the film is seemingly penned in by four of these lines, suggesting the many forces hemming in Sinatra’s Frankie from all sides. Finally, privileging Preminger’s credit, the titular “golden arm” (which actually refers to Frankie’s prowess as a card dealer and not the location of his track-marks) appears as a bent and tortured appendage, reaching out for either redemption or a fix.
  4. Vibrant orange fills the entire screen. Specifically placed vertical bars strew the composition—an abstract form, yet strangely representative. The static image is in service to a ripely varied overture; as the “mood” of the score changes the colour follows suit. The kaleidoscope culminates in a blue frame, and pulls backward to reveal the film title below. The image segues to an aerial shot of Manhattan, and the source of the vertical pattern is confirmed. This simplistic sequence is an exemplary use of colour, and is complementary to the accompanying overture. Perhaps more so than any other example in Bass’ catalogue, this is a wholly dependent exercise. Likewise, Leonard Bernstein’s score is complimented invaluably by the visual treatment. In unison, the visual and aural elements import the title of the film with resounding significance—the abstract bars, even, resemble a perforated music roll.
  5. The opening Paramount logo is in black and white while the rest of the film, including the closing Paramount logo, is in Technicolor. There is no end title on this film.
  6. Psycho was the third and final collaboration between Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock. As the music swells, the horizontal and vertical lines that appear are driven across the screen in a stabbing motion, foreshadowing the action to come. Occasionally, a name that appears on screen (e.g. Alfred Hitchcock) becomes scrambled, perhaps suggesting that various identities will become jumbled throughout the film.
  7. “I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. “
  8. Saul Bass’ work influenced generations of graphic designers to follow and transform the ordinary movie title sequence into an art form in itself. Such as...Steven Spielberg’s 2002 Catch Me If You Can, created by Florence Deygas & Olivier Kuntzel.
  9. In 1958, Saul Bass worked once more with Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder. I think his deconstructive technique works especially well the dead body, and is a clever play of the “anatomy” part of the film’s title. The design influence for the Anatomy of a Murder poster is evident in the poster for Clockers (Spike Lee, 1995). This was not put together by Bass. Most recently, a homage to Saul Bass in this poster for Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009).