Altadenan Saul Bass was renowned for his arresting, blocky, almost-brutal film titles (many of his title sequences were better than the actual films!) Today's Smashing Telly blog features a documentary of Bass, with the master talking about his work.
(Also note the piece below it -- Werner Von Braun in Nazi footage, launching a V2, and some years later explaining rocketry on a Disney show. Rockets go up, who knows where they come down?)
