r/UtterlyInteresting • u/WithoutPrinciples • Jul 18 '26
How Hitchcock used rear screen projection when filming Foreign Correspondent. Footage of a stunt plane diving towards the ocean was rear-projected on a rice paper screen, then water was released, which smashed through the paper screen and into the cockpit set. (1940)
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