> > And now I am wondering how many movies have been
> > made without any background music. I don't
> > suppose the ones before "The Jazz Singer" should
> > count.
>
> The Birds is a pretty famous one, although Hitchcock did get Bernard Hermann, his frequent musical composer, to work on the bird sound effects.
>
> -Eric Sleator

That seems logical. Maybe the birds were the music.

The visual effects in that film look crude these days, but they didn't fool me even when the film was new. It was often just pictures of birds overlaid on pictures of actors.

In "Psycho" Hitch admitted that the blood running down the bathtub drain was really just chocolate syrup. You can get away with stuff like that in black and white.

I wonder sometimes how Hitchcock's genius would have worked with modern computer technology.
Howard