Hitchcock Birds facts
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Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" didn't have a musical soundtrack because he wanted the auditory focus of the movie to be on the unsettling and experimental electronic sounds produced by a strange instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the analogue synthesizer.
The birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds’ were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away
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Tippi Hedren was traumatized while filming Hitchcock’s The Birds. He told her mechanical birds were to be used during the famous bedroom scene. Instead she endured 5 days of prop men flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her. One of the birds gouged her cheek and just missed her eye
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When seabirds ate toxin-making algae in the Monterey Bay area, they started to ram themselves on the sides of homes. This incident led to the production of the Hitchcock film, The Birds.
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Even normal creatures such as birds have been turned into terrifying monster movie characters, such as Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.
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Actress Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's "The Birds" was instrumental in beginning the association between Vietnamese-Americans and the nail salon industry.
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Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds, was inspired by a true event in 1961, when hundreds of birds actually attacked Monterey Bay
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Tippi Hedren, the actress from Hitchcock's classic film 'The Birds' is a key figure in the continued dominance of the US manicure industry by Vietnamese women. On visiting a refugee camp for Vietnamese people in the US forty years ago, she made it her mission to help find them roles.
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Hitchcock’s The Birds was inspired by a 1952 novella of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, not the 1961 Capitola mass seabird attack.
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On August 18, 1961, in Capitola and Santa Cruz, California there was an invasion of what people described as chaotic seabirds, these birds were believed to be under the influence of domoic acid, and it was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s feature film The Birds (1963).
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The premise for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is based upon real life events that occurred in 1961 in Santa Cruz and Capitola, California
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Alfred Hitchcock owned a house in Scotts Valley, CA, and derived many ideas for buildings and scenery in his famous movies like "Psycho" and "The Birds" from the city and surrounding Santa Cruz area.
That 80% of all nail salons in California are run by Vietnamese, all because of Hitchcock's The Birds star, Tippi Hedron. - source
A flock of crows is known as a murder. (Obv where Hitchcock got the idea for Birds!)
