Saul Bass was an American filmmaker known for innovative film title sequences. Over 40 years, he created title sequences for famous directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese. He is credited with inventing the film title sequence and bringing it to prominence in the film industry. His breakthrough came with the title design for Otto Preminger's 1955 film "The Man with the Golden Arm," which caught the attention of the film industry and led to greater success and recognition. Ultimately, Saul Bass became famous for creating memorable and impactful title sequences for over 40 years on many notable films.
2. Who was Saul Bass? Saul Bass was a film maker from America, he was well known for his innovative motion picture title sequences. Over the 40 years he worked he worked with and for some of Hollywood’s more famous and decorated film producers. Including the likes of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. He sprung to fame because he is the man who invented the something that is used in the majority of films to this very day, something film companies spend millions researching and conducting into their films, he is the man who created the Film Title Sequences.
3. So How Did It Happen? Saul Bass was born on May 8, 1920 in the city of New York. Little did they know what a colossal influence he would grow up to have on the film industry as a whole. He grew up to study at the Art Students League in America until going onto attend Brooklyn Collage with Gyorgy Kepes, a world famous painter and designer. This is where it all began for him, he moved to Hollywood looking for success and found it quickly, he began collaborating with big filmmakers and started to stamp his mark on the trade quickly, he started designed film posters for advertisements in 1954 for a 20 th Century Fox distributed film. This shows the magnitude of the film.
4. What Next? Startled with the success of Bass’s advertisement and his ability to design and innovate Saul was asked Otto asked him to further his work portfolio for him and create an opening title sequence, something that would shock the world and hit the movie industry with a bang. And Bass didn’t disappoint, he was one of the first in the world to realise the potential an opening title sequence has and is the man responsible for it being used in the majority of films in this day and age. Film creators across the globe where to stood upright and had noticed Bass after his creation of the opening titles to Otto Preminger’s ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’ (1955) and from this he would gain much more success and fame, this was just a taste of things to come for Saul.
