If Saul Bass did the titles for Star Wars, they’d look something like this:
As this Saul Bass Retrospective explains, he made his name with the title sequence to The Man with the Golden Arm. He also did the title sequence to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. I had no idea he did the title sequence to Alien.
His title sequence to Anatomy of a Murder perhaps best exemplifies the signature style being spoofed — pardon, being paid homage to — by that Star Wars sequence:
Or perhaps his title sequence to It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: