{"id":32,"date":"2007-04-08T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/saul-bass-titles\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:37","slug":"saul-bass-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/saul-bass-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Saul Bass Title Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"saul-bass-titles.jpg\"With Otto Preminger’s 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder<\/em>, film critic Leo Goldsmith — a contributor to Reverse Shot<\/a> and The Village Voice<\/a> — describes part of the stark opening sequence: “Echoing the deliberate manner in which the film dissects the circumstances of a murder case, the credits also provide some witty juxtapositions of titles and images: James Stewart naturally gets the head; Lee Remmick a leg; Duke an arm; and Preminger’s credit comes once a disembodied hand seems to cover the lens.” Goldsmith elaborates on an inspiring tribute site<\/a> for Saul Bass at NotComing.com<\/a>, featuring stills and overviews of his title design collaborations.<\/p>\n

Bass, who passed away in 1996, was featured Bass as a design pioneer<\/span> in Communication Arts magazine, who spoke with director Martin Scorsese about his designs. “Bass fashioned title sequences into an art, creating in some cases, like Vertigo, a mini-film within a film. His graphic compositions in movement function as a prologue to the movie–setting the tone, providing the mood and foreshadowing the action.” Bass did the opening titles for Scorsese’s Goodfellas<\/em>, Cape Fear<\/em> and Casino<\/em>.<\/p>\n