Born May 8, 1920, Saul Bass was a graphic designer so influential he changed the way we thought about an entire medium: film, specifically film titles and movie posters. The Oscar-winning, Alfred Hitchcock collaborator gets his due today in a nifty Google Doodle video which combines references for nearly a dozen title sequences created by Bass, who also worked with Martin Scorcese.

Comic Riffs has more details on Doodle itself and a Bass bio.