Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his design of film posters and picture title sequences. Bass worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C.I.T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Saul Bass-Psycho
In this Opening sequence he uses such a simple method, but he also gets the message of the film across very easily. The motion of the lines going across the screen makes a kind of slashing gesture and the fuzzed type words show the sort of messed up psycho theme to the film.
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