Calgary Herald (22/Sep/1995) - Clockers advertising altered after complaints

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• article: Clockers advertising altered after complaints
• author(s): Henry Sheehan
• newspaper: Calgary Herald (22/Sep/1995)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Saul Bass, Universal Studios, Vertigo (1958)

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Clockers advertising altered after complaints

Universal Pictures altered the advertising on Clockers last week, after complaints from Otto Preminger Films, the company that owns many of the late producer-director's movies.

The issue was the poster illustration for Clockers, a broken-up, blackened silhouette of a figure lying on the ground.

It bears a striking similarity to the poster art for Preminger's 1959 classic, Anatomy of a Murder.

That art was designed by Saul Bass, an animator and graphic designer responsible for some of the most memorable illustrations and title sequences in Hollywood history.

Widely known for the art and intros he did for Preminger (The Man With the Golden Arm, Advise and Consent among many others), Bass also did unforgettable work for Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho) and others (Spartacus, West Side Story).

Universal has altered the Clockers silhouette so that it looks less like Bass's work.