The Birds (film): Difference between revisions

==Premiere and Awards==

The film debuted at a prestigious invitational showing at the [[1963 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3106/year/1963.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Birds |accessdate=2009-02-27|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> with Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in attendance. In ItMarch was1963, thenthe [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]] also had an invitation-only screening of ''The Birds'' as part of a 50-film retrospective of Hitchcock's film work. The MOMA series had a booklet with a [[monograph]] written by [[Peter Bogdanovich]]

''The Birds'' was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in the category of [[Academy Award for Visual Effects|Special Effects]]. The effect of the flapping of the birds' wings was done in the [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney Studios]] by animator [[Ub Iwerks]] who used the Disney's 'yellow screen' or '[[sodium vapourvapor process']] ("yellow screen"). SVP films the subject against a screen lit with narrow-spectrum sodium vapourvapor lights. Unlike most compositing processes, SVP actually shoots two separate elements of the footage simultaneously using a beam-splitter;. oneOne reel is regular photographicfilm stock and the other ana film stock with emulsion sensitive only to the sodium vapourvapor wavelength. whichThis results in very precise mattes[[traveling matte|matte shots]] compared to [[blue- screen]] workspecial effects.<ref>{{cite web| title =Top SFX shots No.6: The Birds| url =http://www.denofgeek.com/misc/178043/top_sfx_shots_no6_the_birds.html| accessdate =2009-01-02}}</ref>