” On a personal note, Rear Window is by far my favourite of these films.”This is so because YOU have viewed them. I would have clicked the links if they were provided here to enable me too to view bits of them if not the full length films. Clarify the link of this lesson with other lessons in this curriculum.
” On a personal note, Rear Window is by far my favourite of these films.”This is so because YOU have viewed them. I would have clicked the links if they were provided here to enable me too to view bits of them if not the full length films. Clarify the link of this lesson with other lessons in this curriculum.
Hi, Dr. Srinivasan, Thanks for your note. This lesson was actually created before the links were working properly and way before embedded video was enabled. I do intent to redo this lesson and many of my others with embedded video in mid-May. Thanks again for your feedback. I totally agree with you. Video and color would make this much more interesting. As for a curriculum, I agree I need to have it more intertwined and less disjointed. I’ll need to do several more lessons for that. I have a full-time job and it’s my busy season so I won’t have a lot of time to devote it until mid-May.
Rear Window is also my favorite, because the feeling of entrapment and helplessness is so great with him confined to the wheel chair. Also, I’m just a big Jimmy Stewart/Grace Kelly fan.
Why is Rear Window your favorite?
Dial M for Murder has always been one of my favorite Hitchcock movies! I love mysteries, screams, and a little romance (for the girlfriend of course, hehe).
The only reason Rope had to cut in the first place was simply because the film roll could record no longer than 10 mins of footage. The film roll runs out and they have to replace it with a fresh roll.
Rachel, you’ll be surprised to know there are actually 10 cuts in Rope. Half are hidden and very unnoticeable. This was Hitchcock’s goal, and he did a great job doing it.
If you have the film, watch it, see if you notice the cuts.
Today’s average 35mm film can still only record 10 mins of footage, and I believe 16mm can record a little longer.
Of course, if you wanted to try to re-shoot Rope digitally (DV or HD), you can easily record up to 60 mins of footage on a DV tape, and if you reduce the quality, up t 90 mins. With HD it all depends on the size of your capture drive. You would probably need quite a hearty hard drive to record 80 mins of straight footage. I doubt many computers could handle a file that size.
If you want to find Ropes cut’s yourself, don’t read the below:
R1 (9:34) CU strangulation to Blackout on Brandon’s back.
R2 (7:51) Black, pan off Brandon’s back to CU Kenneth: “What do you mean?”
R3 (7:18) Unmasked cut, men crossing to Janet to Blackout on Kenneth’s back.
R4 (7:08) Black, pan off Kenneth’s back to CU Phillip: “That’s a lie.”
R5 (9:57) Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on Brandon’s back.
R6 (7:33) Black, pan off Brandon’s back to Three shot.
R7 (7:46) Unmasked cut, Mrs. Wilson: “Excuse me, sir.” to Blackout on Brandon.
R8 (10:06) Black, pan off Brandon to CU Brandon’s hand in gun pocket.
R9 (4:37) Unmasked cut, CU Rupert to Blackout on lid of chest.
R10 (5:38) Black, pan up from lid of chest to End.
I actually do own a copy of Rope and I’ll watch it tonight with an eagle eye. I thought there were only 5 cuts so I’ve missed a few. Looks like there are 5 black cuts so I must have only seen those. Thanks for the details! I’m always looking for an excuse to pull out an old movie. That’s awesome!
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