Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) - Gas station scene
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Uploaded by indiannagurl on Feb 15, 2011
A scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), where bird attacks and a dropped match result in chaos. It is a short scene, but full of suspense and great filmmaking - examples of rhythmic editing, contrasts of motion and action, "graphic conflict" (in Thompson and Bordwell's terms), etc.
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@mrcyclist68 ~ Just watched the featurette called 'All About The Birds' and Albert Whitlock's associates explained how the ''God's View" shot was done. Camera team went out and filmed gulls from over a cliff, a single woman (whose name I forget) rotoscoped the blackout mattes, frame by frame for the gulls to be composited into the rest of the shot. Incredible. I see your point about the scene being "let down" by the cutaway/still-looking reactions of Tippi, but I've always liked that!
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0:55 Oh no! Not Don Draper!
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Smoking doesn't kill. Birds do.
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Those fucking birds.
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Don't try this at home.
Merry Christmas.
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@MrCyclist68 Just goes to show you computers don't really do anything new, they just do it cheaper.
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@Landaux Yeah but a lot of people worked for a dollar an hour back then.
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A great scene in a fantastic film.
The shot from above the town with the gas burning is alleged to have taken a team of acetate artists weeks to draw in the gulls appearing one by one. No CGI then of course.
It is let down though by the now infamous three cutaway shots, where Tippi Hedren turns her head as she follows the track of the flames back to the gas pump. :~)
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America: DAM NATURE YOU SCARY!
British: My goodness nature, you gave me quite the fright of my life you rapscallian.
(I am British)
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Landaux 10 months ago 21
from 1:06 to 1:12 it's like she's in stop motion! hahahhahahhahahahahahhaaa
BlackBarbii 9 months ago 20