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Nittersing

(7,523 posts) Fri Jan 10, 2025, 12:49 PM Jan 2025

The movie Rear Window was filmed on an indoor set

The set design for Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the most iconic in film history, serving as a single, self-contained location for nearly the entire story.

Built on a Paramount soundstage, this meticulously crafted Greenwich Village courtyard was one of the largest indoor sets ever made at the time. It included 31 fully furnished apartments, 12 of which were fully functional with working electricity, running water, and detailed interiors. The set had a Manhattan skyline plus intricate urban details like fire escapes, laundry lines, and shadowy alleys.

Another fun little tidbit: The soundtrack was all ambient sound emminating from the court yard.

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The movie Rear Window was filmed on an indoor set (Original Post) Nittersing Jan 2025 OP

Well done.. hlthe2b Jan 2025 #1

I even see drip lines of dirt below the exterior window trim bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #2

Sequels of Front Window and Side Window never came to fruition. Sneederbunk Jan 2025 #3

Hitchcok's eye for cinematic lighting and colors was excellent. John1956PA Jan 2025 #4

The clothes lines .... When the clothes came in with a crisp smell from a fall or spring breeze. 3Hotdogs Jan 2025 #5

I'll never forget the first time I saw this masterpiece. La Coliniere Jan 2025 #6

Imagine the sex! Bobstandard Jan 2025 #7

hlthe2b

(111,085 posts)

1. Well done..

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 12:50 PM

Jan 2025

Must have saved them a ton of $$$.

bucolic_frolic

(52,013 posts)

2. I even see drip lines of dirt below the exterior window trim

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 12:52 PM

Jan 2025

Sneederbunk

(16,513 posts)

3. Sequels of Front Window and Side Window never came to fruition.

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:16 PM

Jan 2025

John1956PA

(4,372 posts)

4. Hitchcok's eye for cinematic lighting and colors was excellent.

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:17 PM

Jan 2025

By filming this movie indoors, he could control the hues and subtleties of the lighting. The result is spectacular.

3Hotdogs

(14,463 posts)

5. The clothes lines .... When the clothes came in with a crisp smell from a fall or spring breeze.

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:17 PM

Jan 2025

The drier doesn't give any of that.

La Coliniere

(1,526 posts)

6. I'll never forget the first time I saw this masterpiece.

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:35 PM

Jan 2025

I was probably 11 or 12 when I saw it on TV and thought it was the most suspenseful movie I’d ever seen. I loved Hitchcock at that time because of his TV series, but it was Rear Window which made me understand that Alfred Hitchcock movies were a cut above the rest.

Bobstandard

(1,988 posts)

7. Imagine the sex!

Reply to Nittersing (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 01:58 PM

Jan 2025

Imagine how many folks had a chance to slip away into one of those apartments or other spaces to fool around. Humans being human, actors, actresses, production assistants, grips, ets, etc. The temptation and the opportunities must have been too great to pass up.

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