Saul Bass: North by Northwest 1959 Title Sequence

In class, we watched Saul Bass’ title sequence for North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock. The first thing I noticed in the title sequence was about Saul Bass corresponded the text with the direction. For instance, Saul Bass Illustrated an arrow on the letter N and another arrow on the letter West in the text ‘northwest’. I also noticed that once the title was displayed, the green and black background changed to a grid like form. This grid allowed the text to look like it was apart of the city background, and some of the text moved around with the pedestrians walking in the city.

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