While being in the film business for 40 years, he worked for Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Willder and Martin Scorsese.
His most famous title sequences are the animated title sequences:
- The animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for The Man With The Golden Arm.
- the credit racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C.I.T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North By Northwest.
- the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Saul Bass is a great influence on new and young film designers, most of his work and creativity is used in a lot of opening titles in major and new films that are out now.
more commonly the opening titles of James Bond films, where the you see the inside of a barrel of a gun as James Bond walks into the middle and fires his gun at us, with blood dripping down:
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