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The Birds (film), the Glossary

The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released by Universal Pictures.^[1]

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting movies in American cinema.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.

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Alan Smithee

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965.

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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (AHMM) is a bi-monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction.

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American crow

The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic.

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Arnie Kogen

Arnie Kogen is an American comedy writer and producer.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films.

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Bill Quinn

William Tyrell Quinn (May 6, 1912 – April 29, 1994) was an American character actor of film and television.

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Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. The Birds (film) and Birdman of Alcatraz (film) are films set in San Francisco and films set in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Bodega Bay

Bodega Bay (Bahía Bodega) is a shallow, rocky inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of northern California in the United States.

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Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant

The Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed Northern California nuclear power facility that was stopped by local activism in the 1960s and never built.

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Bodega Bay, California

Bodega Bay is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Bodega, California

Bodega is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County in the U.S. state of California.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Bravo (American TV network)

Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980.

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Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) was an American journalist.

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Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and film producer.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

() is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists

The following is a list of the top 10 films chosen annually by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, a French film magazine.

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Camille Paglia

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an American academic, social critic and feminist.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Capitola, California

Capitola is a small seaside town in Santa Cruz County, California.

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Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw (born Charles Crisp Butters; May 10, 1914 – July 29, 1980) was an American stage, film and television actor whose career spanned more than three decades.

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Chimney

A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas.

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Chroma key

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two or more images or video streams together based on colour hues (chroma range).

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Chubby Parker

Frederick R. "Chubby" Parker (1876–1940) was an American old-time and folk musician and early radio entertainer.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.

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Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian. The Birds (film) and Cleopatra (1963 film) are 1963 films.

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Common raven

The common raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird.

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Conor McPherson

Conor McPherson (born 6 August 1971) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director of stage and film.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.

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David Heyman

David Jonathan Heyman (born 26 July 1961) is a British film producer and the founder of Heyday Films.

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David Thomson (film critic)

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books.

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Diegetic music

Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a piece of narrative media (such as a film, show, play, or video game) and is thus knowingly performed and/or heard by the characters.

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Doodles Weaver

Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver (May 11, 1911 – January 16, 1983) was an American character actor, comedian, and musician.

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Elizabeth Wilson

Elizabeth Welter Wilson (April 4, 1921 – May 9, 2015) was an American actress whose career spanned nearly 70 years, including memorable roles in film and television.

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Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer (née Schletz, 5 November 1940) is a German actress.

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Emil Kosa Jr.

Emil Kosa Jr. (November 28, 1903 – November 4, 1968) was an American artist of Czech origin.

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Erinyes

The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Escape (radio program)

Escape is an American radio drama.

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Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods; 26 April 1878 – 9 September 1975) was a British actress.

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Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction.

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Eyeline match

An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system.

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Film festival

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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George Tomasini

George Tomasini (April 20, 1909 – November 22, 1964) was an American film editor, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who had a decade long collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, editing nine of his movies between 1954 and 1964.

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Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress

The Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress was an award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at their annual Golden Globe Awards.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker.

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Gull

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Horror Hall of Fame

The Horror Hall of Fame was an annual Oscars-style award show hosted by Robert Englund which honored the best horror films, television series, actors, producers and special-effects designers.

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Hume Cronyn

Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor and writer.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English-American actress.

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Joe Mantell

Joe Mantell (Joseph Mantel; December 21, 1915 – September 29, 2010) was an American film and television actor.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor.

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Juliet Snowden

Juliet Snowden is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for writing Knowing and Ouija.

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Jungle gym

A jungle gym (called a climbing frame in British English) is a piece of playground equipment made of many pieces of material, such as metal pipes or ropes, on which participants can climb, hang, sit, and—in some configurations—slide.

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Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor.

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King Kong

King Kong, also referred to simply as Kong, is a fictional giant monster, or kaiju, resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933.

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Lafayette, Minnesota

Lafayette is a city in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States.

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Larry King

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American author, radio host and TV host.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Linwood G. Dunn

Linwood G. Dunn, A.S.C. (December 27, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York – May 20, 1998 in Los Angeles, California) was an American pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures and an inventor of related technology.

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List of American films of 1963

A list of American films released in 1963.

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List of cameo appearances by Alfred Hitchcock

English film director Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in 40 of his 53 surviving major films (his second film, The Mountain Eagle, is lost).

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List of films voted the best

This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

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List of natural horror films

Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.

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Live Science

Live Science is a science news website.

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Lonny Chapman

Lon Leonard Chapman (October 1, 1920 – October 12, 2007) was an American actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on television drama series.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lou Silverstone

Louis Donald Silverstone (May 17, 1924 – March 9, 2015) was a comedy writer who was one of "The Usual Gang of Idiots" at MAD Magazine from 1962 to 1990.

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Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 novel of the same name.

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Lovebird

Lovebird is the common name for the genus Agapornis, a small group of parrots in the Old World parrot family Psittaculidae.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952.

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Major trauma

Major trauma is any injury that has the potential to cause prolonged disability or death.

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Malcolm Atterbury

Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian.

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Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand film and television director, based in the United Kingdom.

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Matte (filmmaking)

Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image.

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Me and Hitch

Me and Hitch is a 1997 book that chronicles the relationship between writer Evan Hunter and director Alfred Hitchcock, beginning with their meeting in the summer of 1959 through April 1963.

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Melanie Griffith

Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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MinnPost

MinnPost is a nonprofit online newspaper in Minneapolis, founded in 2007, with a focus on Minnesota news.

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Monograph

A monograph is a specialist written work (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on one subject or one aspect of a usually scholarly subject, often by a single author or artist.

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Montage (filmmaking)

Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.

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Morningside, Minnesota

Morningside is a distinct geographical and architectural neighborhood in Edina, Minnesota.

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Mort Drucker

Morris "Mort" Drucker (March 22, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in Mad, where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and television series.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Naomi Watts

Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British actress.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988. The Birds (film) and National Film Registry are United States National Film Registry films.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New World sparrow

New World sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds, forming the family Passerellidae.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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Non-narrative film

Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of cinematic film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary".

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Optical printer

An optical printer is a device consisting of one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera.

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Oskar Sala

Oskar Sala (18 July 1910 – 26 February 2002) was a German composer and a pioneer of electronic music.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Петар Богдановић; July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.

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Photoplay

Photoplay was one of the first American film (another name for photoplay) fan magazines.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Point-of-view shot

A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, first-person shot or subjective camera) is a film scene—usually a short one—that is shot as if through the eyes of a character (the subject).

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Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds (film) and Psycho (1960 film) are films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, films produced by Alfred Hitchcock and United States National Film Registry films.

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Psychological trauma

Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences.

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Quarterly Review of Film and Video

The Quarterly Review of Film and Video is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering moving image studies, considered to be among the best-known journals in this field.

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RELX

RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England.

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Richard Deacon (actor)

Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Beaver, and The Jack Benny Program, along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).

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Richard L. Coe

Richard Livingston Coe (New York City, November 8, 1914 – Washington, D.C., November 12, 1995) was a theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post for more than forty years.

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Rick Rosenthal

Richard L. Rosenthal, Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American film instructor and director, known for directing Halloween II and Halloween: Resurrection.

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Robert Burks

Leslie Robert Burks (July 4, 1909 – May 11, 1968) was an American cinematographer who worked in many different film genres and collaborated several times with Alfred Hitchcock.

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Rod Taylor

Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruth McDevitt

Ruth Thane McDevitt (Shoecraft; September 13, 1895 – May 27, 1976) was an American film, stage, radio, and television actress.

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Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz (Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.

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Screwball comedy

Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, that satirizes the traditional love story.

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Sealyham Terrier

The Sealyham Terrier (Daeargi Sealyham) is a rare Welsh breed of small to medium-sized terrier that originated in Wales as a working dog.

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Senses of Cinema

Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film magazine founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Sexual tension

Sexual tension is a social phenomenon that occurs when two individuals interact and one or both feel sexual desire, but the consummation is postponed or never happens.

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Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Sodium vapor process

The sodium vapor process (occasionally referred to as yellowscreen) is a photochemical film technique for combining actors and background footage.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Stanley Kauffmann

Stanley Kauffmann (April 24, 1916 – October 9, 2013) was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater.

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Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Stiles White

Stiles White is an American special effects artist, television writer, television producer, screenwriter, film producer, and film director.

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Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Telephone booth

A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; usually the user steps into the booth and closes the booth door while using the payphone inside.

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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments

The 100 Scariest Movie Moments is an American television documentary miniseries that aired in late October 2004, on Bravo.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Birds (story)

"The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree.

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The Birds and Other Stories

The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of stories by the British author Daphne du Maurier.

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The Birds II: Land's End

The Birds II: Land's End is a 1994 American made-for-television horror film directed by Rick Rosenthal, credited to Alan Smithee. The Birds (film) and The Birds II: Land's End are American natural horror films, films based on British short stories and horror films about birds.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. The Birds (film) and the Bridge on the River Kwai are United States National Film Registry films.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Girl (2012 TV film)

The Girl is a 2012 British television film directed by Julian Jarrold, written by Gwyneth Hughes and produced by the BBC and HBO Films.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Monthly Film Bulletin

The Monthly Film Bulletin was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with Sight & Sound.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Trouble with Harry

The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds (film) and The Trouble with Harry are films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and films produced by Alfred Hitchcock.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Tippi Hedren

Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American retired actress.

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Trautonium

The Trautonium is an electronic synthesizer invented in 1930 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule's music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle.

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Two Arabesques

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.

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Ub Iwerks

Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks, was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse, among others.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

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