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Vertigo (1958)
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Technicolor No. V: Dye transfer prints from chromogenic negative

Comparison of three different Technicolor dye-transfer prints of Vertigo (USA 1958, Alfred Hitchcock), originally shot in VistaVision.

Credit: Harvard Film Archive, item no. 246, Academy Film Archive and Library of Congress.

HDR photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.

 

 

Restoration:

DeRosa, Steven (2012): A Very Different “Slice of Cake”. Restoring Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Blog Post

Enticknap, Leo (2004): Some Bald Assertion by an Ignorant and Badly Educated Frenchman. Technology, Film Criticism, and the “Restoration” of Vertigo (1996). In: The Moving Image 4.1., pp. 130-141.

Harris, Robert; Belton, John (2000): Getting It Right. Robert Harris on Colour Restoration In: Film History, Vol. 12, No. 4, Color Film (2000), pp. 393-409.

Heller, Franziska (2015): Alfred Hitchcock. Einführung in seine Filme und Filmästhetik. München: Wilhelm Fink, on pp. 114–115. (in German) View Quote

Roger, Philippe (2000): Images nouvelles pour films anciens, ou, La restauration de film et ses enjeux. L’exemple de Vertigo. In: Odile Bächler, Claude Murcia and Francis Vanoye (eds.): Cinéma et audiovisuel. Nouvelles images, approches nouvelles. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 67–74. (in French) View Quote

Smith, Steven C. (1996): Vertigo Interviews. Patricia Hitchcock, Kim Novak and Katz & Harris. Online

 

 

Contemporary Reception:

Anonymous (1958): Vertigo. In: Film Bulletin, 26,11, May, p. 22. View Quote
Full text on the Media History Digital Library website. View Link

Anonymous (1958): Vertigo with James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. In: Harrison’s Reports, XL,20, May, p. 79. View Quote
Full text on the Media History Digital Library website. View Link

Crowther, Bosley (1958): Vertigo, Hitchcock’s Latest Melodrama Arrives at the Capitol. In: The New York Times, May, p. 24. View Quote
Full text on The New York Times website. View Link

 

 

Selected Analyses:

Allen, Richard (2006): Hitchcock’s Color Designs. In: Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (eds.): Color. The Film Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 131–144, on pp. 134–141. View Quote

Potts, Neill (2005): Character Interiority. Space, Point of View and Performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). In: John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds.): Style and Meaning. Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 85–97, on pp. 93–94. View Quote

 

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