Word: tippy
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...attacked, trained birds are used to fly menacingly close to the running children; mechanical birds, who peck at innocent napes, have been stitched to coat collars. Then four different strips of film are superimposed and cut into each other, drawing migratory flights photographed far away into the attack. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock's new "classic beauty" discovery, is attacked by coveys of birds and desperately bats them off with a flashlight; to shoot the minute-long sequence, six days were required-with a dozen trained birds attacking, plenty of stuffed birds for Tippi to swat; the final illusion shows...