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...your March 16 issue, you credit Saul Bass with designing the new color-drop Kleenex package. Taint so. I designed that box, and it took lots of doing...
...decision to have each of the three scenes introduced by movie projections on a lowered screen effectively points up the satirical aspect of the play. There are crazy title credits worthy of Saul Bass, a flower-watering take-off on the silent cinema, and even a cross-eyed Mona Lisa. Approoutset with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare...
...bristles and pads along, looking. The eyes again. Another cat. Snarl. Fangs. Battle. A fierce toss of bodies, fearsome screeches, victory. The black cat moves on. All the while, words are appearing above, below, beside the animal. And people's names. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Titles designed by Saul Bass. Charles K. Feldman presents Walk on the Wild Side...
...Titles by Saul Bass" is the arresting line. Movie audiences used to resent, with the same resentment that is provoked by a TV commercial, the long parade of credits at the beginning of a film. Saul Bass has singlehandedly changed that. More than half of New York's film critics actually cited Bass's black stalking malkin as far and away the best thing in Walk on the Wild Side. It was. Suggesting the story's themes of harlotry, perversion and vengeance, it set a mood that the ensuing picture tried but failed to match...
...Saul Bass works in an old stucco house on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. He quit his job at an ad agency to set up his own shop there in 1955. Madison Avenue advertising agencies now study Saul Bass film credits in search of new techniques for TV commercials. At 41, Bass is easily the highest-priced man in his field. He is also the creator of the new color-drop Kleenex box and the new, wasp-waisted Wesson Oil bottle. He never repeats him self. "If you don't risk everything every time out." he says, "your creative...