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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). James Stewart and Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much...
...metteur-en-scene, learned his art in a TV studo, and Hawaii suffers the consequences. Rarely using long shots, Hill always cuts to closeups when he needs dramatic intensity, a standard TV technique for "grabbing" the audience. Although close-ups can be an extremely effective dramatic device (see Hitchcock's Sabotage at Harvard Film Studies this fall), they are rarely as effective when the film is in Panavision, a wide-screen process with a 1 to 2.5 screen ratio. Wide-screen has plagued directors for more than a decade; Fritz Lang says it's only good for filming "snakes...
...Hitchcock's phrase "photographs of people talking" should be hammered into the popular vocabulary. It defines an astoundingly large proportion of the mediocrity that passes for cinema, and it suggests such calumny as La Fuga deserves: "photographs of people thinking...
...HITCHCOCK: It isn't true. I'll tell you, Saul Bass asked me if he could design a sequence, so I said, "Yes, you can design the sequence of the detective going into the house." So he made up a series of sketches: feet on the stairs, hands on the rail, moving through the bannister with his legs going up, close...
...HITCHCOCK: That was a hanging crane shot. An overhead hanging goes up -- photographs up -- with one side open. And as the camera goes up, you turn and look down...