Word: faintings
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There were faint hopes for a while Saturday that Yale or Brown might upset the hierarchy, but in the end it still remained Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton--and Cornell...
...then, amid the groan of earth-moving machines, police called for silence. Then during the eerie, deathly lull, everyone listened for the faint whimper of a trapped child...
...smoke bomb, about the size of a beer can, left a faint pink frosting on 50 to 75 per cent of the books in the store. The only other damage was two large broken windows...
...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 be, and we made the whole picture with reflected lights. There are no halos on the people, and the light is reduced to one-quarter...
There was a scene where Joan Fontaine was supposed to faint at a coroner's inquest, and I wanted to get the effect, but nobody could lick it. From 1939, I tried again several times. And it wasn't until Vertigo, when we had to have it that it was solved with a combination of a zoom lens and a dolly-back. When I asked the trick department how much it would cost, they said it would cost $50,000.00 for the one shot, because they'd have to take a rig above the staircase to take the camera...