As Alfred Hitchock's avian thriller 'The Birds' turns 60, his granddaughter recalls watching the master of suspense at work in Sonoma County and relaxing at his Santa Cruz Mountains retreat.
SCOTTS VALLEY -- On its 60th anniversary, Hitchcock'sMuch of the classic thriller was photographed in the Bay Area, principally in and around Bodega Bay which attracts thousands of movie-location visitors every year.
As the set piece begins, the character Melanie, played by Tippi Hedren, waits outside a school building, oblivious to a gathering conspiracy of ravens behind her. When the birds take flight they chase the students, their teacher and Melanie down Bodega Lane in the village of Bodega. Cut to: the waterfront in the town of Bodega Bay. In reality that's close to a seven-mile trip.
"The birds were attached to the kids' hands," she recalled."Most of were fake and so, when ran, they would go like this and so the birds looked like they were attacking their heads." "The building is what they call a 'classic haunt,'" she says."It's got paranormal events that happen in it and Alfred Hitchcock was a man who believed in ghosts. And I think he maybe even knew when they were around. That's why he picked this as the schoolhouse."
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