Vertigo by Dan Auiler

Vertigo by Dan Auiler

Author:Dan Auiler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alfred hitchcock, san francisco, filmmaking, bernard herrmann, vertigo, film history, jimmy stewart, restoration, 1958, universal studios, paramount studios, kim novak, alec coppel, john whitney, robert burks, samuel taylor, saul bass, the making of, vista vision
Publisher: Dan Auiler


Novak remembers stumbling during the film's first takes. "When I tripped over a tombstone in the cemetery scene, Jimmy helped me up and said softly, with a small smile, 'You might try lifting your feet.'"

Mission Dolores is the oldest building in San Francisco, dedicated on October 9, 1776, and completed on August 2, 1791. There are three bells in its tower, provided between 1792 and 1797, and it is their actual sound we hear at the end of Vertigo's mission sequence: One of the takes listed in the script supervisor's report is a sound recording of the tolling bells. The western writer Bret Harte wrote some verse upon hearing the Dolores's bells toll, lines that seem appropriate to the film as well:



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