Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Shots and Angles
Important details
100

Did Hitchcock hate shooting on location?

Yes, and he was a "control freak" 

100

what shot is this? 

dominant 

100

First film to have re-run on TV

Wizard of OZ

200

How many soundstages was this movie shot on? 

1 giant one with handmade buildings 

200

What was Hitchcock's first film 

Pleasure Garden (1925)

200

Dissolve definition? 

Where one shot gradually fades out while the net shot simultaneously fades in

200

what percent of homes have TV's in the 50s 

50%+

300

what text was the movie based on

It Had to be murder

300

what did alfred Hitchcock do before he became a director?

Title Card maker 

300

What did western films represent in this time

antii-conformity

400

Was it the first color film in our class? 

yes 

400

What is new movie genre/target audience at the time? 

The Teenager genre (youth rebellion)

500

True or False 

Towards the start of his movie, Alfred made a lot of cameos in his own films

True 

500

What is mccarthyism

Anti-Communist paranoia characterized by public accusations of disloyalty or subversion (often baseless) and unfair investigative tactics