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Behold the amazing Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW in Time Lapse! Amazing!
Hey folks, Harry here... working on the DVD column, but saw this come across the Twitter stream via @filmfest_ca - and just fell in love with it. Jeff Desom using After Effects managed to create a Time Lapse Rear Window by essentially stitching together all of Jimmy Stewart's Rear Window view into at coherent time lapse. It is amazing. Watch as he puts it together and watch it play. Just amazing.
All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.
more info: http://www.jeffdesom.com/hitch/
Hungarian Dance No. 5
composed by Johannes Brahms
arranged for easy listening by Hugo Winterhalter
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VERY WELL DONE.
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April 3, 2012, 1:27 a.m. CST
"we're" REALLY? Dammit. "We we are.." Great. Thanks for the edit button asshole.
by Pixelsmack
Oh wait.
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Fuck why am I still up?
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I love this bit of awesome from one of my all-time top 5 favorite movies. Thanks!
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One of my favourite Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart films (either together or apart).
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April 3, 2012, 1:43 a.m. CST
I'd be all over this if I wasn't itching to see the movie itself
by Lucky13
Good find Harry. I'll bookmark and check it out once I get a chance to re-watch the masterpiece. I watched Disturbia recently as a poor substitute... But for a "dumb teen" movie, it's really damn good. Now that I mention it --- Harry --- You gotta campaign to get Rear Window released on BD!!!!
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In the composer's window at far right. my favorite movie of all time.
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I have on it tape, recorded off AMC back when it was still commercial-free. I'd buy a DVD of it, if I could find one in a store.
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...great. It made me want to see the movie again & fall in love with Grace Kelly...again.
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love the idea! this definitely inspires me to watch movies in a different way from now on, looking out for similarly cool ideas.
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Now that's a FACT!!!
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such a treat. Thanks for posting this.
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fucking brilliant. I adore rear window so I'm pretty much nergasming right now.
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Probably the film most responsible for my love of cinema.
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There's some pretty fucking awesome stuff out there.
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What a great way to reminisce about one of my favorite movies. Every scene that took place I remember vividly from my many screenings of the movie. One of my favorite parts dealt with the newlyweds in the apt. on the left. Twice he staggers to the window and looks exhausted....worn out by his insatiable new wife, and her voice calls him back to bed each time. Great stuff....Hitchcock's great eye for detail may be equaled, but never surpassed.
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amazing.
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Very impressive. Eyeball literally been fucked out of my head. Would love a Hd version of this
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That is incredible! So awesome!
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April 3, 2012, 7:42 a.m. CST
He should have put that effort into something original
by alienindisguise
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art exhibit called 24 Hour Psycho where someone slowed Psycho down so the whole movie ran for 24 hours.
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....that composer putz was none other than Ross Bagdasarian...who went on to create the chipmunks....even if that guy survived Rear Window...I'd like to believe he took a vacation and checked into the Bates motel.....
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In a good way. Very cool
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April 3, 2012, 8:07 a.m. CST
That tall blond ballet teacher in Rear Window was fucking HAWT.
by KilliK
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April 3, 2012, 8:48 a.m. CST
I remember they used to have something at Universal Studios that was similar to this.
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Like they recreated the set and you had to look through the telescope at all the different windows... it was a long time ago.
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Now I'm trying to figure out what other films could have this done to them, and I'm stumped at the moment. Brilliant!
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Watched it as a kid and it's one of the reasons I grew up loving movies. Also dug Chris Reeve's remake in the '90s. Nowhere near as good as Hitch's, but pretty decent nonetheless.
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April 3, 2012, 10:17 a.m. CST
Was that a set or was it accomplished through a combination of sets, models and mattes?
by mdk
The weird little add-on to the brick apartment building where Lars Thorvald lived looks a like a model.
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April 3, 2012, 10:24 a.m. CST
Music should have been more "Peter Gunn" and less "gypsy circus"
by Odkin
but other than that, just awesome!
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April 3, 2012, 12:42 p.m. CST
Now do one of Craig Wasson watching Deborah Shelton, er Melanie Griffith
by Redc40
doing the "Ten on the Peter Meter" Dance in Body Double. That would be cool.
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Would love to have this projected on a wall or something during a party. Looped to infinity.
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If there's someone out there working on a Blu release for Rear Window, they need to immediately contact the guy who made this and get him on board with making this the menu for the disc. Absolutely fantastic work and one of my favorite Hitchcock films.
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April 3, 2012, 2:41 p.m. CST
That's the movie that ripped off that Shia Leboef movie, right?
by Mugato5150
Don't hunt me down, I'm joking but there was an awesome Hitchcock exhibit at Universal Studios, Florida with an area where you could look through binoculars at people's apartments. There was a stairway from Vertigo and they recreated the set from Psycho and at the end there was a 3D show from The Birds. Anyone remember that? They tore it down and now it's a Shrek show.
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What am I looking at? It looks like tiny little ant people moving really fast, the end. People are so small you can't see what is happening. Also, is the whole movie soundless through some binoculars?
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Cameron's film opens with footage scanning across parts of a painting. I scaled his film down and animated it across a virtual canvas to reveal his painting in its entirety, which was previously unseen until now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L_NfU8ki8
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Seriously. That was astoundingly well done. Definitely makes me want to re-watch one of my top-10 films of all-time. Such a damn classic.
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I'd be all over it right now. Very cool work. I'd actually like to see it run a little slower.
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