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Opening Title Sequences

Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an Award winning film maker, but is best known for his animated motion picture title sequences.

During his 40 year career he worked for some of hollywoods best filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Saul bass was born on the 8th of may 1920 in new york. He began his time in hollywood doing print work for film ads, until he collaborated with film maker Otto Preminger to design the movie poster for his 1954 film Carmen jones. Otto Preminger was so impressed by Saul's work Otto asked him to do the title sequence as well.



Here are a few of his;

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Exodus (1960)

Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Big (1988)
The War of the Roses (1989)

Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Age of Innocence (1993)
Casino (1995)





This video is of Saul Bass talking about his title sequences.