![]() ![]() “You know, to a man with a heart as soft as mine there’s nothing sweeter that a touching scene.” And if we spoke we’d never see her again.” But I can tell you what’s written on another piece of paper. Now will you tell me what was on that piece of paper?” ![]() ![]() “Mr Lawrence, Ropa’s in London, and an attempt may be made on his life. These remarks often give an explanation of why a particular frame was chosen. These frames were not chosen arbitrarily, but always on the basis of some peculiarity.Īfter several transcripts our own remarks, or those by previous authors, were added. To give a still better feeling of how each trailer looks, we also included in the article a single frame from each of them. All the narrations and dialogue scenes were transcribed, and instead of just typing the words of written cards, we also tried to reproduce, at least partly, their visual character (small or capital letters, italics, etc.) as they appear on the screen. 100 percent precision is an impossible task, since music, narrations, flashing images from scenes, and written cards frequently overlap each other, and can hardly be reproduced in a written essay. At the end of our article (under the title of “Curiosities”), we do list several of these promotional materials, too – some of them were taken from other written sources, some directly from our video collection – just to give the reader a flavour of what delights must still be waiting to be discovered.įor each theatrical trailer (i.e., the English-language ones), we tried to give as precise a transcript as we could. An entire (probably not a bit less fascinating) project would be to collect other promotional materials used to advertise Hitchcock’s films: radio spots, television spots, recordings for theatre lobbies, etc. In any case, comprehensiveness was only intended for theatrical trailers. Readers who can make our list more complete are therefore welcome to get in touch with us by mail or email. We do not claim that we have found all existing trailers in fact, there are hints of some (including one for Vertigo ) that we could not locate. We have been collecting video versions of Hitchcock’s trailers for several years and finally we reached the point that at least one trailer for every Hitchcock film starting from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) can be found in our collection. In the present essay, our ambition is to give as comprehensive a list of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie trailers as possible. ![]()
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