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"You've shown my wife's tombstone
with her name on it. I'm upset."

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Actually, it did happen. Later, somebody
called up and I was brought in.

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I had to look at the film, and I said,
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"That may be somebody's name,
but we provided that tombstone."

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"It's not their tombstone."
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So, by coincidence,
there was somebody else buried

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in a California cemetery
with that name.

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But in providing those cemeteries,
Hitchcock had an idea.

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And when he had a press junket
arrive at the cemetery,

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many of the tombstones
had those people's names on it.

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It looks like Miss Tyler
needs some rest.

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Will you do as I say?
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(Black) I didn't know that Mr Hitchcock
drew everything and then shot it.

:51:52
Remember, I was from the '70s,
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where at that particular point
in the history of film

:51:57
people were throwing up a lot in films,
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and they were sweating and drooling
and improvising and walking off camera,

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and if things were blurry, that was OK,
and they were using a lot of zooms.

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So, his style was very different
from what I was used to.

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- (Tyres Screeching)
- (Crashing)

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(Blanche) George, are you alright?
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Mm-hmm. I think so.
:52:24
- How about you?
- I'm OK.

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(Kazanjian) Hitchcock had
long been known

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to be one of the early directors to
storyboard and do conceptual designs.

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And, of course, with the conceptual
designs that came from

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the production designer,
Henry Bumstead.

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- Should it go this way or this way?
- Doesn't matter, really.

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But Hitchcock, personally,
would do some of the storyboards,

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and then he'd commission
Tommy Wright

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to do a number
of the storyboards for him.

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And he would meet with Tommy
and tell him exactly how he saw it.

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He'd look at those drawings
and make adjustments.

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To pre-edit a scene, and then
shoot it the way you want to edit it


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