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...July 14, 1966, Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film, Torn Curtain, had its World Premier in Boston, Massachusetts. Hitchcock attended that premiere and, on the afternoon of the same day, he came to Harvard to receive an honorary membership in the Harvard Dramatic Club. These quotes come from a short question-answer period held at the award presentation, and from an exclusive interview held afterward at 4 p.m. in the Radcliffe Graduate Center...
QUESTION: In that case, would one attribute any differences in camera style between Torn Curtain and the earlier films photographed by Robert Burks to you, and not to the difference in cameramen...
...long time, I've tried to break this, and at last in Torn Curtain, I've broken right through. My original cameraman went sick, so I brought in a new man who I had worked with in Rebecca many years before. He was an assistant then. I brought him into this room, and I said, "Where are the black shadows?" And I said, "Look at this room now. You can't see a one." A faint one here and there caused by the diffused light from the window. So we went forward, and I showed him what the thing should...
...example, in Torn Curtain, I decided with the production designer that up to the first reel of the film, which starts in Copenhagen and ends in East Berlin, we'd have a certain amount of color up to that, and from then on the colors would be grey and beige for the mood of the iron curtains. A touch of red here and there, inspired by the color of the uniforms they wore. So that was the scheme...
...would say that I always go for color, because if you want the effect of black and white you can always create it, because the camera will photograph what you give it. It's a matter of taste. The exteriors in Torn Curtain are all diffused also. We used a grey diffusor. In fact, we did that for the whole picture in order to reduce the color even more, so that we would prevent even Technicolor from cheating us. We made the reflected light with a big sheet: a large 20 by 20 sheet...