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Re: looking for title design references/Psycho
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Jim Marsden <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:50:14 -0500
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Eugene Walz wrote:
 
> About ten years ago there was an article (somewhere in an American movie
> mag) about Saul Bass's contribution to Psycho. I wish I could find the
> reference, but right now I'm stymied. Bass would be central to your study.
> Maybe someone else can provide the reference.
 
I don't have that reference, but I recalled reading about Saul Bass in Janet
Leigh's 1995 book, _Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller_. Leigh
castigates Bass for claiming he directed the shower scene (he apparently
storyboarded it). As part of her case she quotes cinematographer Hilton Green:
"There is not a shot in that movie that I didn't roll the camera for. And I
can tell you I never rolled the camera for Mr. Bass" (p. 69).
 
Does anyone have information about when and why Bass was making the directing
claim?
 
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