D.O.D: April 25th 1996, Los Angeles California
Bass graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx and studied part-time at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He began his Hollywood career in 1940's. He began designing print advertisements for films such as: Champion(1949), Death of a Salesman(1951) and The Moon is Blue(1953). Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the opening sequence Otto Premingers The Man with the Golden Arm(1955). He decided to design/create an innovative title sequence to match the films controversial subject.
Screenwriter, Nicholas Pileggi, said of Saul and Elaine, "Eventually you have the pleasure of seeing the Basses have knocked you right out of the ballpark. They have boiled it down to four minutes." This highlights Bass' skill in graphic design and how he could take pages of ideas and represent them in a four minute tile opening sequence. His talent allowed him to create sequences that represented the film in only a few minutes.
Bass once described that his main goal was 'Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you that what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story."Saul respected his work and designs. He was modest about his work. His work was abstract and it had a massive impact on the film industry from the 1940's and so forth. His work changed how title sequences were looked at overall, he was the first to bring an opening sequence to life and show the power of graphic design.
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