1000 Frames of Hitchcock – part 6
And here’s the next batch of “1000 Frames of Hitchcock“… Family Plot (1976) Rear Window (1954) Rope (1948)
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1000 Frames of Hitchcock – part 5
Here are the last two for this week… Frenzy (1972) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) I couldn’t resist using the frames from Uncle Charlie’s speech — as he speaks the final words, he turns and stares straight into the camera… The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who’ve spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And… (read more)
1000 Frames of Hitchcock – part 4
Here’s the next batch of “1000 Frames”… The Birds (1963) Psycho (1960) Blackmail (1929) Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
1000 Frames of Hitchcock – part 3 (Vertigo)
Here’s the next part of “1000 Frames of Hitchcock”… Vertigo (1958) There’s also a breakdown of the average colour of each frame here: Purists will spot that I’ve used the most recent DVD release from Universal, which has incorrect colours in the title sequence:
The Colours of North by Northwest
Colours, and the moods they evoke, play an important role in Hitchcock’s films. With that in mind, I got ImageMagick to figure out the average colour of each of the 1000 frames for “North by Northwest” — you can see the results here. To put the average colours into context, here they are annotated with a selection of scenes… Getting the average colour of a given image got me wondering if it might be possible… (read more)
1000 Frames of Hitchcock – part 2
Here’s the next batch of “1000 Frames of Hitchcock”: The Pleasure Garden (1925) Strangers on a Train (1951) North by Northwest (1959)
1000 Frames of Hitchcock – Spellbound (1945)
Slightly inspired by Douglas Gordon’s “24 Hour Psycho” video installation, here’s the first part of “1000 Frames of Hitchcock”: Spellbound (1945) …be warned, it’s a bandwidth hungry page! The 1000 frames are fairly equally spaced and each represents a section of film lasting roughly 6 seconds. Seeing as the next Dynix User Group Conference will be held in Barcelona, here’s a segment containing one of the Salvador Dali “Dream Sequences”:
Blackmail on BBC4
Just got an email from the BBC! :-) Hi there I just wanted to let you know that we are showing Hitchcock’s classic film Blackmail on BBC Four on Saturday 13 August at 10pm: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/blackmail.shtml It is accompanied by a new documentary based on Matthew Sweet’s book about early British cinema, Shepperton Babylon: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/shep-bab.shtml I thought that your users might be interested in both programmes. Best wishes BBC Four webteam I’d spotted that Blackmail was… (read more)
Start saving your pennies!
Many thanks to Mr_Lowery for spotting the following DVDs that have just appeared on play.com: Hitchcock: The Complete Box Set (03/10/2005) Psycho: 45th Anniversary Edition (17/10/2005) Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 (6 Discs) (31/10/2005) If play.com have got the details correct, then October is going to be a very expensive month (R1 “Lifeboat” is due on 18th, and the remastered R1 “Masterpiece” collection is out on the 4th). Paolo emailed me to say that Sony… (read more)
More budget US DVDs and Lifeboat
It looks like Fox are finally going to release Lifeboat on DVD. The unconfirmed release date is October 18th. I’ve also got hold of a pile of US budget releases from Westlake Entertainment Group. I’ve yet to add screen grabs to the site, but the transfers appear to be similar to the old Laserlight/Delta releases. I’m not sure if these count as some of the cheapest Hitchcock DVDs to date, but they only cost $0.89… (read more)