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?)