If I could be somebody else I would be Saul Bass. Well… maybe not now because he’s dead, but I would have loved to have his talent for movie title design. That is something I have always wanted to work with. I often drag his name out in movie discussions, but I have yet to meet anyone (here in Norway) who has ever heard of him. So I usually go on to mentioning some of the films he did the titles for, like The Man With The Golden Arm, where he has a simple theme of white lines introduce a movie about a junkie. Genius. But no one has seen any of these films either, because like I said before, in Norway people only watch movies with Steven Segal.
Here at least, are the best titles by Saul Bass as clickable frame-by-frame animations. There is also an official homepage, with movie clips of some of the titles. For those who can get it to work. I couldn’t.
Titles by PCL LinkDump
Ted Says:
August 19th, 2005 at 21:12Visit Ted
Wrong my friend
I have even been to one of Soul Bass’ slide shows in the Munch Museum here in Oslo back in the late 70s. And you know I enjoy a Steven Segal movie from time to time, I even plan to watch one to day.
Ted
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(or from one who wants you nothing but good, as one usually say in anonymous letters