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Interesting camera trick
posté par PT 100STAFFMOD le 15 février 2017 à 19h25
Near the end of the film where the killer holds the pistol in his hand and it follows Bergman's character (Constance) as she leaves the room, they created a giant prop gun near Bergman so that both the extreme close-up of the gun (supposedly in the foreground) and the background action of Constance walking are in focus at the same time.
Hitchcock used a similar trick in "Notorious". About 1:26:00 into the film, there is a scene where Ingrid is sitting in a chair and the poison cup of coffee is sitting in the foreground, camera right. Both are almost perfectly in focus, even though the cup appears to be much closer to the camera (and so it appears about 1.5 times the size of Bergman's head). That is because the cup was actually a prop that was about three feet tall and is placed not far from her face.
Réponse de barrymost
le 28 août 2019 à 11h02
Finally, I come across someone else who thought the camera trick at the end of Spellbound was ingenious! I thought it was so cool when I watched it, especially when, after Constance leaves the room, the gun turns right around and goes off, with a burst of red, then end scene. Ol' Hitch really did some amazing things in his time.