When director Otto Preminger asked Saul Bass to design a poster for the film he was so taken by the “jagged arm” symbol that he asked Bass to design titles using the same elements. Pat Kirkham is Professor in the History of Design, Decorative Arts and Culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture, New York. Here was modern art on the movie screen. It was a helluva moment when we first screened it.”. Passed | 1h 59min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 16 January 1956 (Brazil) A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing … The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955) The Man with the Golden Arm. Support the collection here: https://paypal.me/MovieTitles or https://www.patreon.com/MovieTitlesThe Movie title stills collection is the largest online archive dedicated to title sequence design and typography on the silver screen, with title sequences from over 5,000 movies, from 1902 to 2019). © 2007–2020 Art of the Title, LLC. She has written and edited a number of books, including Charles and Ray Eames (1998) and Women Designers in the USA 1900–2000 (2001).©2011 Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Used with permission. Because of the extremely tight schedule, Bernstein had to compose the music at the same time as Saul was creating the title. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) title sequence - YouTube The titles featured an animated, black paper cut-out arm of a heroin addict and caused quite a sensation. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) ‘THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ was the second of 13 title sequences Saul Bass designed for director Otto Preminger. Saul stated that, “The intent of this opening was to create a mood spare, gaunt, with a driving intensity... [that conveyed] the distortion and jaggedness, the disconnectedness and disjointedness of the addict's life the subject of the film.”, Accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's driving jazz-like score, and set against a black background, white bars appear, disappear and form abstract patterns before finally coalescing into the film's symbol. Contrasts between the black and white heighten the strident intensity, and the disjunctures encapsulate the mood of the main character, a downbeat drummer with a penchant for gambling and drugs. The challenge facing Saul was how to create a symbol that captured the drama and intensity of the film without resorting to sensationalism. Title sequence from The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), designed by Saul Bass✇ ‘THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ (1955)Directed by: Otto PremingerStarring: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim NovakSaul Bass' title sequences: http://bit.ly/SaulBass Enjoy my videos?