I’ve never seen The Birds. Should I go watch that before I listen to the radio version? It’s vaguely on my list to see.
The radio version predates the movie by 11 years, so knowledge of the movie should not be necessary. These are independent adaptations of the same short story.
I pulled it down to watch anyways, 1963 was a very different time.
Most of Hitchcock’s movies age very well. “The Birds” is an exception, mostly due to limitations in the visual effects.
I thought the effects were actually not bad for the time. It’s not today’s standards or anything, but I saw more than one where I wondered how they did it.
Reading up on the trivia, they did it by training thousands of birds to attack the actors. The most practical of effects, and making the movie a bit less fictional, too.
I’ve never seen The Birds. Should I go watch that before I listen to the radio version? It’s vaguely on my list to see.
The radio version predates the movie by 11 years, so knowledge of the movie should not be necessary. These are independent adaptations of the same short story.
I pulled it down to watch anyways, 1963 was a very different time.
Most of Hitchcock’s movies age very well. “The Birds” is an exception, mostly due to limitations in the visual effects.
I thought the effects were actually not bad for the time. It’s not today’s standards or anything, but I saw more than one where I wondered how they did it.
Reading up on the trivia, they did it by training thousands of birds to attack the actors. The most practical of effects, and making the movie a bit less fictional, too.