Carmen Jones No. 1 In their third collaboration in 1954 Bass and Kallis struck pay dirt. It was Otto Preminger’s movie version of the musical “Carmen Jones.” It was the first film for which Bass designed a title sequence….
Here are the six rough sketches Saul Bass had Al Kallis do for the 1954 musical version of “A Star Is Born.” I love how in the first drawing Bass had the idea of having the words of the title…
Let’s set the scene for this work. It’s 1954. Two years earlier Bass had hung out his shingle as an independent designer, not working exclusively for one studio or ad agency. In 1953, Bass wrote a piece about film advertising…