“West Side Story” titles
Date
1961
Credits
- Saul Bass 17 Title Designer
- Saul Bass 17 Visual Consultant
- Elaine Bass 3 Title Designer
- Jerome Robbins Film Director
- Robert Wise Film Director
- United Artists 2 Studio
- Linwood G. Dunn
- John Finger
Format
Type of Work
- Finished work 5481
Locations Made
- California 230
"Graphic designer Bob Gill still cites the sequence to students as a 'classic' example of title design. 'The film is set in the ghettos of New York. It is about a certain time and place and what better way of producing a credit sequence than to take an art form that is so closely associated with that city and with those ghettos. He found a natural canvas and the result was brilliant.'"—https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/west-side-story/
