One of the best things about “The Birds” is the lack of an explanation. It just IS. These days, every movie plot has to have a contrived explanation. Far creepier with the reasons unknown. One of my all-time favorites.
Sorry for my English. Your point is more or less true... The Zeit of the script and the general concepts of the personages admit the existence of some kind of explanation and simultaneously the protagonists assume the existence of some degree of mystery together with their radical ignorance about the stuff (say, "aggressive group of multi species birds"). Old and good films admit doubt and their casts deeply admit the verisimilitude of their roles and actions. Old films talk about reality -- they don't rely on the pseudo reality of artificial graphics and pre programmed games of life, they are not simulations in a simulation. For instance, that old American ornithologist (a lady) proclaims the supposed impossibility of such strain of birds (the seagulls) behavior but 40 minutes later she was totally pale and confined in a room of Tides Restaurant (If I remember well) in a typical scene extracted from the (theatrical) mute realist cinema of German and Russian silent films (Eisenstein, Lang films) and so she needs a deep explanation to understand not the birds but herself and her errors about what reality really is !! It is impressive because it shows us that people in some moment in time are themselves only because that same people believe the universe supposedly is a well known whole (including me, a bit part of that whole). This is a master piece of cinema located in the true Bodega Bay, 1962. Hollywood (Oscar) even in the glorious Past was an imbecile creation -- Hitchcock never received an Oscar as a director. Brasil (Yes... Brasil)
2 yrs late to the conversation, but I totally agree. Same thing with the 1960's The Haunting versus its remake in the 1990s. As for Hitchcock's movies like The Birds, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, etc, something about them give a nostalgic feel about 1950's-1960's SF/NoCal, NYC, the Pacific Northwest. Although those movies are very mannered in a soundstage sort of way, I miss that in today's era of overly slick CGI & hip, no-mystique realism. Unless the property burned down or was bulldozed, I wonder why Michael didn't show where Mitch Brenner's house is? I doubt it was instead on Universal's backlot & must have really existed in Bodega Bay. As for the scenes in the small restaurant & of the town, they gave a friendly, relatable vibe to NoCal---psycho birds notwithstanding. lol
Same here, I was a kid when I saw that… and that scene freaked me out a lot. The fact that there was no music during this scene, made it feel so real. Plus Hitchcock used things that made us feel safe. He was found dead, killed by birds, inside of his home, with a pajamas on.
You brought back fond memories for me. My late husband knew how much of a Hitchcock fan I was and still am so he took us to Bodega Bay in 2013. Funny how that road has not changed. The fog was incredible. Thank God we had a Hummer. Long story short, we wanted to retire there but couldn't afford $500k then and still couldn't so we bought a place in Gold Beach, OR which is very similar to Bodega as in wind and fog and a population of about 2500 people. No Hitchcock history in town but I have all of his great movies that I watch to this day and lots of pictures. Psycho being #1 and The Birds #2. Love your travels. Stop in for a meal next time you visit Gold Beach. LOL😊😊
Mine is "North by northwest".... I love Eva Marie Saint ... I love the house never built but so glam on the top of the creek I love Cary Grant i love this atmosphere so chic .. so american...
@@bobduvar Eva Marie Saint just celebrated her 100th birthday. 💓Alfred Hitchcock liked blonde leading ladies...Eva, Janet Leigh, Doris Day, Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak, Grace Kelly.😊 I fell in love w/Rod Taylor in this movie. But I wanted him to be Annie, lol!
@Candi She never quoted that. It's my salty response to Kathleen Kennedy's disregard for the original Star Wars fandom, the canon, and George Lucas. She seems to take delight in making us (the audience) suffer by slowly destroying our heroes and our beloved franchise on the Big Screen.
This brought back a lot of memory. My mom and dad took my brother and I to see The Birds. I was nine years old at the time. I loved my parents and loved being with them. Movies serve as a kind of landmark in my life.
I saw it with my parents too, and my aunt and uncle and same age cousin. We were both 7. Scared the crap out of us. Saw it again on TV when I was around 12 or 13. I was old enough to appreciate it then, and it's still a favorite of mine. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534and Jan. I agree. Favorite of mine too. HItchcock's movies had very little computer stuff. The story is what scared the crap out of us all. I sent the link to the trailer and this filming location to my daughter (who never saw the movie but read the book). Man, Alfred Hitchcock was the master of horror.
I grew up in Sonoma County California. Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, and Bodega Bay. In fact, years ago the former owners of the School house turned it into a cafe and museum but that's been gone for a long time. Last time I was visiting home it was under new ownership and closed off to the public. I miss Bodega Bay. I live in Astoria Oregon now.🎩🌊
My father loved the ocean and Alfred Hitchcock. Of course I spread his ashes directly across the bay from The Tides. Gave me cold chills seeing you video from that exact spot.
The little boy's whistle at the beginning, as TIppi is about to enter the pet shop, is a joke that audiences would have gotten at the time: it's a re-creation of a very famous TV commercial that Tippi had starred in
No one else on TH-cam visits movie sets the way you do. Your attention to detail, artistry, and historical integrity, are par excellence. Thank you both for bringing us such great educational and entertaining content. 👍💗👍💗👍💗👍💗👍
@@grimmlifecollective This is the one movie I could never finish cause of the old man with his eyes pecked out under the window sill, he reminded me of my great grandfather who died a few years before I saw this movie and I had to leave the classroom.
Great video you guys. My buddy and I were road trippin' in 2004. We stopped in Bodega Bay for coffee and I saw a poster of "The Birds" on the wall. I told the employee, "that's so cool". He told us THIS is the town where they shot the film... WOW....so we stopped at school house. Was a great town to stumble on...LOL......thanks for the memory.
What a fun video. Flailing her arms while wearing that over-sized, black top as she ran down the street, Jessica looked like she was playing both parts-the panicking kids running down the street and the crows attacking them.
Horror fan here and I stumbled across your videos not long ago. I absolutely LOVE your filming location videos and the way you present, recreate, and show actual clips from movies is phenomenal!! Just want to thank you for these and let you know how truly grateful and appreciative I am for what you do! Thank the Gods I found your channel! 🥰👏
Alfred Hitchcock was the commencement speaker at my college graduation from Santa Clara University in 1963. His message to us was to inject humor into our lives and future employment and he injected a lot of humor into his speech. His movie “The Birds” had just come out and he wondered how the University could confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on someone who said things like, “The Birds is coming” (to a theater near you). I got his autograph on my graduation program, consisting of his signature and a drawing of his face in profile, as it appeared on his television program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
People that are really good at something make it look easy. Thank you for the work on this. During corona times, you guys allow many of us to see classic locations we usually would not be able to.
I am originally from Petaluma not far from Bodega Bay. Weekends were spent “abaloning” in the area and was the only beach in which I played! The original Tides was my husband’s and mine favorite restaurant and we would always stop for cracked crab dinner! It is also the first ocean our son ever saw! Thanks for taking me back to pleasant memories. Salt water taffy used be a big hit in a little store there. Was last there in 1974 when all the original buildings were still standing.
I wonder if anyone has ever interviewed any of the children who were running down the road in this movie? It would be interesting to hear their memories of being in this movie.
They are grandparents now. Veronica Cartwright is the young sandy haired girl. She went to star in the first Alien movie and is a sister to Angela Cartwright who was in “Lost in Space”.
Well, here is one of them! I was in the birthday party scene and also in the schoolhouse and running down the street. Wow! Do I have stories! I think my memories are on TH-cam somewhere. I did a video interview.
Some parts of America are incredibly like the west of Ireland, the small windy roads and the gorse beside it, the lighting etc. You'd never think it considering they are other side of the world
This is very true. I grew up in Marin County in Northern California. Our coast and also the next county up, Sonoma coast (where The Birds was filmed) resemble the green rolling foothills and hauntingly beautiful coves and inlets of Ireland. I hiked these places throughout my childhood and teenage years. The land is in your blood and soul when you grow up in places like these.
Jessica rocked her reenactment of the kids running from the school. Perfect! 😁 The drone footage was beautiful in a truly ethereal manner. What a stunning location for filming. Hitchcock had one hell of an eye. Also, huge congratulations on your 4th wedding anniversary. You guys are a true inspiration.
Excellent video! I love Bodega Bay. Tippi Hedron used to go back every year and visit. The restaurant has great views when seated at the windows like that. You can watch sea otters playing in the bay. Happy Anniversary!!
Dude, the motion pictures cinematography you guys put together keeps getting better and better! You were so right on your live stream last night about this great idea.
Great video as always!Happy belated anniversary .I loved Jessicas reinactment of the children andTippy Hedron running down the street to escape the birds. a classic performance!!
He liked to make cameos in his movies and other shows. I saw him get off a stage coach that had just arrived in Dodge City at the beginning of a “Gunsmoke” episode. Didn’t say a word, just got off the stage as a passenger and walked by the camera into town, not to be seen again in that episode.
He said one time that his fans expect a cameo from him, so he likes to do it towards the beginning of his films to "get it out of the way" and the audience can focus on the story.
cool cool review of the birds filming locations. brings back many memories for me. i spent the summer of 1975 up in bodega bay with a friend and wound up working at the original tides restaurant as a dishwasher. even then everyone talked about the movie the birds but i had never seen it (this was way before vhs, dvd, or internet streaming). i'll never forget that summer.
I like this movie, way far better than The Exorcist, which literally scared the hell out of me, and I do not want to ever see it again, especially because a scene depicted a oijua board which I am VERY DEATHLY SCARED OF! 😱 Speaking of oijua boards, I had a peculiarly scary dream @ a new neighbor who had just moved in nextdoor to me borrowing one of those freaky things from some close relative of theirs. In this dream, when these new "weirdo" neighbors leaned the board up against their door, it just all of a sudden slammed against the ground in the hallway and split perfectly into two after I stepped out my door, followed by light grey smoke eerily smouldering from the broken pieces as I stood just frozen in a trance-like state in fear
Thank you for the tour. I always wanted to see Bodega Bay but never had a chance too. My father has been there though. I will show him this video and see if he recognizes it.😊
“The things I do because I love you.” 💕 I remember watching this movie when I was about 13 years old. Classic! Thank you Michael. Love the way you narrate your stories and Jessica re-enacts. You and Jessica are very loved and appreciated.
Great channel!! I was driving up the coast with a friend for a wedding and we stopped to grab some munch and crunch. It was Bodego Bay!! They had BIRDS postcards everywhere.
This video is another awesome example of California locations I grew up in California I really miss it but its to expensive to return thank you for sharing 😀 super cute when the little boy whistles at tippy she was an icon 😊
I used to work in schools as a teaching assistant, and remember once hearing a class singing Risseldy Rosseldy, just like in The Birds. It was very eerie!
I wish I had known about your Chanel sooner. I'm a huge Hitchcock fan and I own all of his movies even the silent ones. Magazines and Mystery Books. I just can't get enough which is funny because as a kid, I'd leave the room whenever he was on screen. Thanks to you and your lovely wife for this Adventure. I'd love to see the location shots for North By Northwest.
Many years ago a clairvoyant friend of mine looked at me intensely and told me the reason she liked me: "you stumble beautifully" she said. I fantasized for years that someone would do a video about filming locations for this film. Unbidden and unannounced, this video turns up in my feed this morning. So feeling the love right now. Thank you.
I loved this grimmlifecollective! Very cool. Too bad you can't go in the school house, it is an awesome building. The movie was filmed the same year I was born and just up the road from me.
I am so glad that I stumbled across your post! I LOVE "The Birds." Your take on this classic 👌 is so-o-o-o spot-on. You should have been a movie 🎬 director. You have made an already much loved classic even more enjoyable and understandable an experience. And I love the way you two love and respect each other. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, for visiting Bodega Bay. I went there in 1972 for a visit because of the movie and, luckily, at that time, most of the buildings were still intact.
Whenever the birds fell up on you while lining up the water shot, it was like if Alfred Hitchcock sent them to make this video more incredible, man 😍🤘🏽😍😍😍🥰😍
You guys are killing it with your videos. They have reached a new level of great since you got to California. Really well done and congratulations on your subscriber milestone!
Great video. There are other ones that cover the filming locations of the Birds, but yours is by far the best. None of the other ones showed where the dock was and the fawcett farm. When I was a kid ,we on a family vacation to Bodega Bay a few months after production wrapped. We ate in the original Tides restaurant. They had photographs and autographs from the film. And the staff was happy to talk about it. We saw all the locations, including the schoolhouse. I still remember a lot from it. Went back a couple of more times after that. One of my favorite places. The cast and crew actually ate there as well.
Another one of my favourite films too. The locations in Bodega Bay look fantastic, I would love to visit. The funniest thing in The Birds is when the lovebirds lean in the same direction as Tippy Hedron drives her sports car. 😂🤣
As of this date (July 2022) there is a house right on Taylor Street where the kids run down, little 2 bedroom, 1 bath place, no yard, listed for $900,000.
I asked my husband about the 3-step zoom towards Mr. Fawcett's pecked out eyes and he said that the original shot wasn't as grisly as what is shown in the final cut. Hitchcock had Albert Whitlock, who did the matte paintings, add more blood in post. Amazing!
That 3 step zoom was done in Frankenstein in 1931 and my scariest scene in Exorcist 3 with the grim reaper in a mental hospital. I remember crying and screaming maybe because I worked in a forensic state hospital that was haunted.
Dan & I used to live in bay area and would drive to the area quite frequently. His brother lives right near Bodega Bay - always one of the fave spots to visit. I have been outside that schoolhouse many, many times.
The Birds! The school looks the same! Tippi Hendren is Melanie Griffiths mom and Dakota Johnsons grandma, pretty cool! I heard somewhere that Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with Tippi, not sure where or if it's true...Thanks guys Happy Anniversary 🖤 Happy Mother's Day to all also!💕
It is true. They made a movie about it. Tried to ruin her career. I think Sienna Miller played her & Toby Jones played Hitch. Btw, the school house is haunted 👻 saw it on that old show Sightings!
@@samanthab1923 Thanks for the info I'd like to see that! Yep he tried to ruin her career, wow... I remember " Sightings" lol now you can't get in unfortunately maybe after covid? IDK
it is True, she said it in a interview, google it and you can also see the interview of her saying that Alfred Hitchcock use to give Melanie her kid Dolls so he can get the Mother, real Horney son of a Bitch!!!!!!
Yes yr right I read that Hitchcock was obsessed with Tipi too, he had a hidden room made somewhere apparently where he used to force Tipi to meet him, poor girl !! She was not interested at all !! Today that would be called sexual harrasment..how awful !
Big bear hug guys ❤ I visited Bodega Bay in 2018. Took pics outside school house that is now converted into private residence. This is so nostalgic. Did you guys film on location at the 1970's The Fog? And filming locations of Duel would be way cool. You guys have the life. I know it ain't easy, but it better than being a typical office clog.
My grandmother's uncle, Mitch Zankich, owned the original Tides Restaurant, and appears briefly in the film. According to family lore, the character of "Mitch" was named after him as part of the deal to film at the restaurant, lol. I've never been to Bodega Bay myself, and now I'm really itching to go!
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 At about the 27:07 mark in THE BIRDS, after Rod Taylor helps Tippi Hendren out of the boat following the gull attack, they pass a dockhand who says, "What happened, Mitch?" He was the dockhand, lol. My guess is that they replaced his voice with an actor's, since his back was mostly to camera.
Been trying for hours to piece together The Birds old locations & here you've done it perfectly! Thank you for doing the work! I love the "lay overs" & "insertions". Sad how such a pretty town & surrounding landscape was lost to fire and what was replaced less than aesthetic :( They call that "progress", I call it "ruination". BTW, that shot with the flock of Birds appearing was a million $ one! lol - what are the odds? Thanks again for sharing this!
Congratulations on 4 year anniversary! Cheers Mike & Jessica!🥂⚘ This was a awesome veiw! So nicely shot and edited perfect! It was like going back in time,just Epic! Appreciate your efforts and quality content thanks Luv&Peace!
You guys are the best! Love your reenactments! For a very short time the school house was open to the public they had a Museum in a small room on the main floor and we were able to check it out😊 we have spent lots of time in that area and love it and The Birds are one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Also we were able to meet Tippi Hedren for a autograph signing at the Tides and she was lovely! 💜
That was so intertaning I was 11years old when it came out and remember seeing it at the movies. No one could have played Melanie better than Tipi Hedrin. ..definitely subscribing. THANKS
I have been watching your videos today and absolutely love your work. I was 9 years old when this movie came out and for me it scared the living daylights out of me and made me afraid of birds for a very long time. As I got older I fell in love with Alfred Hitchcock's movies and even found a magazine published about his stories and I still have the magazines. Thank-you for taking me along for your adventures and me going down memory lane. I am a horror movie junkie. Much love to you and Jessica.
One of the best things about “The Birds” is the lack of an explanation. It just IS. These days, every movie plot has to have a contrived explanation. Far creepier with the reasons unknown. One of my all-time favorites.
Sorry for my English.
Your point is more or less true...
The Zeit of the script and the general concepts of the personages admit the existence of some kind of explanation and simultaneously the protagonists assume the existence of some degree of mystery together with their radical ignorance about the stuff (say, "aggressive group of multi species birds").
Old and good films admit doubt and their casts deeply admit the verisimilitude of their roles and actions.
Old films talk about reality -- they don't rely on the pseudo reality of artificial graphics and pre programmed games of life, they are not simulations in a simulation.
For instance, that old American ornithologist (a lady) proclaims the supposed impossibility of such strain of birds (the seagulls) behavior but 40 minutes later she was totally pale and confined in a room of Tides Restaurant (If I remember well) in a typical scene extracted from the (theatrical) mute realist cinema of German and Russian silent films (Eisenstein, Lang films) and so she needs a deep explanation to understand not the birds but herself and her errors about what reality really is !!
It is impressive because it shows us that people in some moment in time are themselves only because that same people believe the universe supposedly is a well known whole (including me, a bit part of that whole).
This is a master piece of cinema located in the true Bodega Bay, 1962. Hollywood (Oscar) even in the glorious Past was an imbecile creation -- Hitchcock never received an Oscar as a director.
Brasil
(Yes... Brasil)
I totally agree! It contributed to the horror.
@@KRYPTOS_K5 well said! Great interpretation
2 yrs late to the conversation, but I totally agree. Same thing with the 1960's The Haunting versus its remake in the 1990s. As for Hitchcock's movies like The Birds, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, etc, something about them give a nostalgic feel about 1950's-1960's SF/NoCal, NYC, the Pacific Northwest. Although those movies are very mannered in a soundstage sort of way, I miss that in today's era of overly slick CGI & hip, no-mystique realism. Unless the property burned down or was bulldozed, I wonder why Michael didn't show where Mitch Brenner's house is? I doubt it was instead on Universal's backlot & must have really existed in Bodega Bay. As for the scenes in the small restaurant & of the town, they gave a friendly, relatable vibe to NoCal---psycho birds notwithstanding. lol
True!
This guy needs his prime time tv channel. He has a great way with him
Agreed!
Jessica reenacting the kids running down the street was priceless. I think you guys are amazing. Please don't ever stop!
I thought it was great
Lol hilarious
Right?! I LOLd! 😆
hilarious
Omg I'm crying, lmfao
Hitchcock would be proud.. you did an exceptional job of merging past and present. 👍👍
I just watched this movie again last evening, then found this video.....
Incredibly interesting !!! Thank you.
The movie scared the crap out of me when I was young. Especially the scene with the guy lying on the floor with his eyes plucked out. :)
YES..!!!. lol That gave me nightmares for YEARS.. and his PJ's all ripped up.. I think I was about 10 when I saw it first The Birds..
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@@djx64, even today I prefer to skip that scene. Think I was somewhere around the same age 10 or so when I first saw it.
Same here, I was a kid when I saw that… and that scene freaked me out a lot. The fact that there was no music during this scene, made it feel so real. Plus Hitchcock used things that made us feel safe. He was found dead, killed by birds, inside of his home, with a pajamas on.
@@tsnovak20 LOL
You brought back fond memories for me. My late husband knew how much of a Hitchcock fan I was and still am so he took us to Bodega Bay in 2013. Funny how that road has not changed. The fog was incredible. Thank God we had a Hummer. Long story short, we wanted to retire there but couldn't afford $500k then and still couldn't so we bought a place in Gold Beach, OR which is very similar to Bodega as in wind and fog and a population of about 2500 people. No Hitchcock history in town but I have all of his great movies that I watch to this day and lots of pictures. Psycho being #1 and The Birds #2. Love your travels. Stop in for a meal next time you visit Gold Beach. LOL😊😊
You tell such a lovely story. Thank you for sharing.
My daughter lives across the field from the school house in Bodega.
My all-time favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie. I've always loved the birds. Thank you for doing a filming location. This is awesome
Omg. Did u see that 800 birds entered some guys chimney about a month ago in Torrance,Ca?! Reminded me of The Birds. It was crazy
@@larav6505 yeah I saw that on the news. That was insane. It was like a scene right out of the birds
Mine is "North by northwest".... I love Eva Marie Saint ... I love the house never built but so glam on the top of the creek I love Cary Grant i love this atmosphere so chic .. so american...
@@bobduvar Eva Marie Saint just celebrated her 100th birthday. 💓Alfred Hitchcock liked blonde leading ladies...Eva, Janet Leigh, Doris Day, Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak, Grace Kelly.😊
I fell in love w/Rod Taylor in this movie. But I wanted him to be Annie, lol!
My favorite scenes took place in the restaurant!just loved the older lady who was a expert on birds!(I think she wore a beret)
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible" Alfred Hitchcock.
Words to live by.
Kathleen Kennedy takes that quote very seriously.
Love all his movies
True
@Candi She never quoted that. It's my salty response to Kathleen Kennedy's disregard for the original Star Wars fandom, the canon, and George Lucas. She seems to take delight in making us (the audience) suffer by slowly destroying our heroes and our beloved franchise on the Big Screen.
Neil Breen took those words to heart.
This brought back a lot of memory. My mom and dad took my brother and I to see The Birds. I was nine years old at the time. I loved my parents and loved being with them. Movies serve as a kind of landmark in my life.
I saw it with my parents too, and my aunt and uncle and same age cousin. We were both 7. Scared the crap out of us. Saw it again on TV when I was around 12 or 13. I was old enough to appreciate it then, and it's still a favorite of mine. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534and Jan. I agree. Favorite of mine too. HItchcock's movies had very little computer stuff. The story is what scared the crap out of us all. I sent the link to the trailer and this filming location to my daughter (who never saw the movie but read the book). Man, Alfred Hitchcock was the master of horror.
You two are too 🥰
I grew up in Sonoma County California. Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, and Bodega Bay. In fact, years ago the former owners of the School house turned it into a cafe and museum but that's been gone for a long time. Last time I was visiting home it was under new ownership and closed off to the public. I miss Bodega Bay. I live in Astoria Oregon now.🎩🌊
Awesome. I'm from Sebastopol CA. Last time I was home to visit was back in 1996.
Love the movie "The Birds"wow the drone video shows how misty sky was
My father loved the ocean and Alfred Hitchcock. Of course I spread his ashes directly across the bay from The Tides. Gave me cold chills seeing you video from that exact spot.
The little boy's whistle at the beginning, as TIppi is about to enter the pet shop, is a joke that audiences would have gotten at the time: it's a re-creation of a very famous TV commercial that Tippi had starred in
Thank you for this piece of Hitchcock lore. I didn't know why they whistled then; I always thought it was to get my attention.
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I didn't know that. I always learn something new about this film.
Great place to visit and I have a friend who parents are buried just outside of Bodago Bay. Always cold there but a must see if in SF.
“The things I do because I love you” and the look on her face!!! 🤣🤣🤣 plus how she ran I was cracking up! I love this!! Thank you!!!
I loved how the love birds would lean to the side when the car would go around the curves
Yeah that was funny
Hollywood prop birds
Alfred Hitchcock's sense of humor the same as you see Alfred walking out of the pet shop at the start with his two dogs.
Was there 20 yrs ago. Thanks for the memories!
I am so happy you did this video, one of my favorite Hitchcock movies of all time ❤ 😀
Thank you. Love that movie. Still scary nearly 60 years on.
Don't remind me. I was born in '63.
No one else on TH-cam visits movie sets the way you do. Your attention to detail, artistry, and historical integrity, are par excellence.
Thank you both for bringing us such great educational and entertaining content.
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Thank you Peg, this means a lot
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No problem. I find myself watching your videos even if I hadn't seen the original movie.LOL
Adam the woo / the daily woo and Sean Clark aka Malfuncsean of Horror’s Hallowed Grounds also go into great detail. I recommend them.
@@grimmlifecollective This is the one movie I could never finish cause of the old man with his eyes pecked out under the window sill, he reminded me of my great grandfather who died a few years before I saw this movie and I had to leave the classroom.
Great video you guys. My buddy and I were road trippin' in 2004. We stopped in Bodega Bay for coffee and I saw a poster of "The Birds" on the wall. I told the employee, "that's so cool". He told us THIS is the town where they shot the film... WOW....so we stopped at school house. Was a great town to stumble on...LOL......thanks for the memory.
What a fun video. Flailing her arms while wearing that over-sized, black top as she ran down the street, Jessica looked like she was playing both parts-the panicking kids running down the street and the crows attacking them.
Horror fan here and I stumbled across your videos not long ago. I absolutely LOVE your filming location videos and the way you present, recreate, and show actual clips from movies is phenomenal!! Just want to thank you for these and let you know how truly grateful and appreciative I am for what you do! Thank the Gods I found your channel! 🥰👏
Alfred Hitchcock was the commencement speaker at my college graduation from Santa Clara University in 1963. His message to us was to inject humor into our lives and future employment and he injected a lot of humor into his speech. His movie “The Birds” had just come out and he wondered how the University could confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on someone who said things like, “The Birds is coming” (to a theater near you). I got his autograph on my graduation program, consisting of his signature and a drawing of his face in profile, as it appeared on his television program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
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People that are really good at something make it look easy. Thank you for the work on this. During corona times, you guys allow many of us to see classic locations we usually would not be able to.
One of my cult favourites, love Alfred Hitchcock.. thanks Grimm 🖤🐦⬛
this movie is really great..i need to watch it again.
I Remember watching this movie as a kid scared me badly. Thanks for airing this.😨💙
I am originally from Petaluma not far from Bodega Bay. Weekends were spent “abaloning” in the area and was the only beach in which I played! The original Tides was my husband’s and mine favorite restaurant and we would always stop for cracked crab dinner! It is also the first ocean our son ever saw! Thanks for taking me back to pleasant memories. Salt water taffy used be a big hit in a little store there. Was last there in 1974 when all the original buildings were still standing.
I wonder if anyone has ever interviewed any of the children who were running down the road in this movie? It would be interesting to hear their memories of being in this movie.
They are grandparents now. Veronica Cartwright is the young sandy haired girl. She went to star in the first Alien movie and is a sister to Angela Cartwright who was in “Lost in Space”.
Well, here is one of them! I was in the birthday party scene and also in the schoolhouse and running down the street. Wow! Do I have stories! I think my memories are on TH-cam somewhere. I did a video interview.
@@morganbrittany3962 how cool is that! I remember you of course from Dallas when tv shows were pretty fun and cliffhangers were expected thanks!
@copy pasta What a silly comment! Of course they can share their experiences ! The Birds was not a porno movie!!
Have you done videos of the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? That would be something to see.
Some parts of America are incredibly like the west of Ireland, the small windy roads and the gorse beside it, the lighting etc. You'd never think it considering they are other side of the world
This is very true. I grew up in Marin County in Northern California. Our coast and also the next county up, Sonoma coast (where The Birds was filmed) resemble the green rolling foothills and hauntingly beautiful coves and inlets of Ireland. I hiked these places throughout my childhood and teenage years. The land is in your blood and soul when you grow up in places like these.
"OH, look. There's birds" just cracked me up!
IKR?! Timing is everything, lol!
The Birds: "IT WAS JUST A MOVIE. WE COME IN PEACE."😊🐦🐦🐦🐦
I remember watching for the first time in 70s as a kid. Brilliant film.
Jessica rocked her reenactment of the kids running from the school. Perfect! 😁
The drone footage was beautiful in a truly ethereal manner. What a stunning location for filming. Hitchcock had one hell of an eye.
Also, huge congratulations on your 4th wedding anniversary. You guys are a true inspiration.
Excellent video! I love Bodega Bay. Tippi Hedron used to go back every year and visit. The restaurant has great views when seated at the windows like that. You can watch sea otters playing in the bay. Happy Anniversary!!
I live in N CA and never been to Bodega Bay. I need to go see it now after this ! Thanks for showing us this!!! ❤
"The things I do because I love you" - that earned a like lol
Love “The Tides” restaurant...such a neat place to eat!😀
Very expensive. There are several other restaurants up Highway One.
It's okay... but not one bit like the greasy spoon in the movie.
Dude, the motion pictures cinematography you guys put together keeps getting better and better! You were so right on your live stream last night about this great idea.
Agree
Great video as always!Happy belated anniversary .I loved Jessicas reinactment of the children andTippy Hedron running down the street to escape the birds. a classic performance!!
Hitch appears at the begining. Comes out of the pet shop carrying two terriers. His own dogs too!
He liked to make cameos in his movies and other shows. I saw him get off a stage coach that had just arrived in Dodge City at the beginning of a “Gunsmoke” episode. Didn’t say a word, just got off the stage as a passenger and walked by the camera into town, not to be seen again in that episode.
He was walking his dogs. (Jan Griffiths).
He is known for doing a cameo. Quentin Tarantino does it too in his movies. Very Cool.
The best one was Lifeboat. Guess how? A newspaper floated by & his photo was on it. Genius
He said one time that his fans expect a cameo from him, so he likes to do it towards the beginning of his films to "get it out of the way" and the audience can focus on the story.
The Birds is my favorite movie of all time, and I always wanted to visit Bodega Bay. Through your great video, I feel like I have. Thank you so much!
Happy Anniversary!
cool cool review of the birds filming locations. brings back many memories for me. i spent the summer of 1975 up in bodega bay with a friend and wound up working at the original tides restaurant as a dishwasher. even then everyone talked about the movie the birds but i had never seen it (this was way before vhs, dvd, or internet streaming). i'll never forget that summer.
This was always a fave childhood movie, and it's so fascinating to see the locations today, great video once again! 💙
I like this movie, way far better than The Exorcist, which literally scared the hell out of me, and I do not want to ever see it again, especially because a scene depicted a oijua board which I am
VERY DEATHLY SCARED OF!
😱 Speaking of oijua boards, I had a peculiarly scary dream @ a new neighbor who had just moved in nextdoor to me borrowing one of those freaky things from some close relative of theirs.
In this dream, when these new "weirdo" neighbors leaned the board up against their door, it just all of a sudden slammed against the ground in the hallway and split perfectly into two after I stepped out my door, followed by light grey smoke eerily smouldering from the broken pieces as I stood just frozen in a trance-like state in fear
Congratulations on your anniversary and a great job documenting these filming locations.
I love this film. Was great to see where it was filmed
Thank you for the tour.
I always wanted to see Bodega Bay but never had a chance too.
My father has been there though.
I will show him this video and see if he recognizes it.😊
Geeze, that scene @8.58 where Melanie is smoking-it was so absolutely brilliant the way that it was done. Filmmaking at its finest!
Been there it very cool to visit. We fell in love with that area. Great Edition !!!!
I haven’t seen this movie in a long time so good to see this
"The things I do because I love you" -Jessica
“The things I do because I love you.” 💕 I remember watching this movie when I was about 13 years old. Classic! Thank you Michael. Love the way you narrate your stories and Jessica re-enacts. You and Jessica are very loved and appreciated.
Great channel!! I was driving up the coast with a friend for a wedding and we stopped to grab some munch and crunch. It was Bodego Bay!! They had BIRDS postcards everywhere.
I love this movie. Its one of my favourite movies. I love the Alfred hitchcock movies.
Really enjoyed this. Love the scene of baby ghoul running down the road? Hilarious!
This video is another awesome example of California locations I grew up in California I really miss it but its to expensive to return thank you for sharing 😀 super cute when the little boy whistles at tippy she was an icon 😊
I used to work in schools as a teaching assistant, and remember once hearing a class singing Risseldy Rosseldy, just like in The Birds. It was very eerie!
Great! One of my favorite places. I saw the birds on my eighth birthday at the Reseda (yes,that Reseda) Theater thanks to their Birthday Club.
Best line in the whole movie. "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord!"
I wish I had known about your Chanel sooner. I'm a huge Hitchcock fan and I own all of his movies even the silent ones. Magazines and Mystery Books. I just can't get enough which is funny because as a kid, I'd leave the room whenever he was on screen. Thanks to you and your lovely wife for this Adventure. I'd love to see the location shots for North By Northwest.
More Hitchcock is coming
North by Northwest is my all time favorite Hitchcock movie. Hope they do an on location for it too.
Many years ago a clairvoyant friend of mine looked at me intensely and told me the reason she liked me: "you stumble beautifully" she said. I fantasized for years that someone would do a video about filming locations for this film. Unbidden and unannounced, this video turns up in my feed this morning. So feeling the love right now. Thank you.
I had the fortune to visit most of these sights about 10 years ago. Loved it ! I also love all of your posts !
I loved this grimmlifecollective! Very cool. Too bad you can't go in the school house, it is an awesome building. The movie was filmed the same year I was born and just up the road from me.
OMG this was one of mine and my mom's favorite movies I can't watch it no more but still a great movie
My moms to I love it too.😊✌
Deke, why's that, you can't watch this movie?
@@staceyking7911 it was my mother's favorite movie I can't watch it no more cos memories
Y’all are so sweet! Yes Jessica needs an Oscar for her wonderful acting!
I am so glad that I stumbled across your post! I LOVE "The Birds." Your take on this classic 👌 is so-o-o-o spot-on. You should have been a movie 🎬 director. You have made an already much loved classic even more enjoyable and understandable an experience. And I love the way you two love and respect each other. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Peter. Happy you enjoyed it
Jessica i just loved the way you ran down the street . You are both taking me back in time the first time i seen the movie. Thank You.
This was so much fun. That’s one of my favorite movies and you guys did a fantastic job of showcasing all the locations. Love this❣️🙏🏻
Thank you, for visiting Bodega Bay. I went there in 1972 for a visit because of the movie and, luckily, at that time, most of the buildings were still intact.
Whenever the birds fell up on you while lining up the water shot, it was like if Alfred Hitchcock sent them to make this video more incredible, man 😍🤘🏽😍😍😍🥰😍
OMG, you guys are sitting at the exact table I sit at when I eat there. Been going to Bodega since about 1969. The Tides has the BEST FOOD!
You guys are killing it with your videos. They have reached a new level of great since you got to California. Really well done and congratulations on your subscriber milestone!
Great video. There are other ones that cover the filming locations of the Birds, but yours is by far the best. None of the other ones showed where the dock was and the fawcett farm. When I was a kid ,we on a family vacation to Bodega Bay a few months after production wrapped. We ate in the original Tides restaurant. They had photographs and autographs from the film. And the staff was happy to talk about it. We saw all the locations, including the schoolhouse. I still remember a lot from it. Went back a couple of more times after that. One of my favorite places. The cast and crew actually ate there as well.
Another one of my favourite films too. The locations in Bodega Bay look fantastic, I would love to visit. The funniest thing in The Birds is when the lovebirds lean in the same direction as Tippy Hedron drives her sports car. 😂🤣
As of this date (July 2022) there is a house right on Taylor Street where the kids run down, little 2 bedroom, 1 bath place, no yard, listed for $900,000.
This was the BEST video! Thank you! I was a kid too when I first saw “The Birds”. ❤️🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
I asked my husband about the 3-step zoom towards Mr. Fawcett's pecked out eyes and he said that the original shot wasn't as grisly as what is shown in the final cut. Hitchcock had Albert Whitlock, who did the matte paintings, add more blood in post. Amazing!
That 3 step zoom was done in Frankenstein in 1931 and my scariest scene in Exorcist 3 with the grim reaper in a mental hospital. I remember crying and screaming maybe because I worked in a forensic state hospital that was haunted.
Dan & I used to live in bay area and would drive to the area quite frequently. His brother lives right near Bodega Bay - always one of the fave spots to visit. I have been outside that schoolhouse many, many times.
The Birds! The school looks the same! Tippi Hendren is Melanie Griffiths mom and Dakota Johnsons grandma, pretty cool! I heard somewhere that Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with Tippi, not sure where or if it's true...Thanks guys Happy Anniversary 🖤 Happy Mother's Day to all also!💕
It is true. They made a movie about it. Tried to ruin her career. I think Sienna Miller played her & Toby Jones played Hitch. Btw, the school house is haunted 👻 saw it on that old show Sightings!
@@samanthab1923 Thanks for the info I'd like to see that! Yep he tried to ruin her career, wow... I remember " Sightings" lol now you can't get in unfortunately maybe after covid? IDK
it is True, she said it in a interview, google it and you can also see the interview of her saying that Alfred Hitchcock use to give Melanie her kid Dolls so he can get the Mother, real Horney son of a Bitch!!!!!!
Ironically, Tippi's characters name is Melanie.
Yes yr right I read that Hitchcock was obsessed with Tipi too, he had a hidden room made somewhere apparently where he used to force Tipi to meet him, poor girl !! She was not interested at all !! Today that would be called sexual harrasment..how awful !
Always great, to revisit classic
movie locations, years, even
decades later. Thanks, for
putting this together!
Tippy was drop dead gorgeous!
You blow me away..right on point with the scene. I'm a San Francisco Native born & raised, thank you for your time & commitment!
Big bear hug guys ❤ I visited Bodega Bay in 2018. Took pics outside school house that is now converted into private residence. This is so nostalgic. Did you guys film on location at the 1970's The Fog? And filming locations of Duel would be way cool. You guys have the life. I know it ain't easy, but it better than being a typical office clog.
My grandmother's uncle, Mitch Zankich, owned the original Tides Restaurant, and appears briefly in the film. According to family lore, the character of "Mitch" was named after him as part of the deal to film at the restaurant, lol. I've never been to Bodega Bay myself, and now I'm really itching to go!
Can you tell us where he shows up in the movie? Thanks!
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 At about the 27:07 mark in THE BIRDS, after Rod Taylor helps Tippi Hendren out of the boat following the gull attack, they pass a dockhand who says, "What happened, Mitch?" He was the dockhand, lol. My guess is that they replaced his voice with an actor's, since his back was mostly to camera.
OMG this movie SCARRED me. Lol No joke, I don’t mess with birds. Well done Hitchcock. Also well done was the drone work in the fog.✨
It scared me too at the age of 7 when I saw it with my parents and aunt , uncle, and 7 year old cousin. He was scared too. (Jan Griffiths).
I love this movie. I watch it several times a year. Thank you very much for this wonderful episode. Greetings from Poland ❤️
Been trying for hours to piece together The Birds old locations & here you've done it perfectly! Thank you for doing the work! I love the "lay overs" & "insertions". Sad how such a pretty town & surrounding landscape was lost to fire and what was replaced less than aesthetic :( They call that "progress", I call it "ruination". BTW, that shot with the flock of Birds appearing was a million $ one! lol - what are the odds? Thanks again for sharing this!
I'm 50 and have never seen The Birds. Seen more in this video than my entire life. Thanks..
Worth the watch ~ still a great movie!
I love Bodega Bay you should also go to Hearst castle. Your really good at flying the drone Michael impressive 👏
Watched the birds again the other day, classic. Thanks for the location vid, really interesting. Lucky you two for experiencing it 👍
Great job of comparing old pics to current shots! Excellent!
I love "The Birds". This video was great. Thanks for posting and Happy Anniversary.
Congratulations on 4 year anniversary! Cheers Mike & Jessica!🥂⚘
This was a awesome veiw! So nicely shot and edited perfect! It was like going back in time,just Epic! Appreciate your efforts and quality content thanks Luv&Peace!
You guys are the best! Love your reenactments! For a very short time the school house was open to the public they had a Museum in a small room on the main floor and we were able to check it out😊 we have spent lots of time in that area and love it and The Birds are one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Also we were able to meet Tippi Hedren for a autograph signing at the Tides and she was lovely! 💜
She named her daughter Melanie after her character in this film ,Melanie Griffith
I didn't know that... So cool!
@@anneholden9908 yep lil HOLLYWOOD triva facts lol
@@natalieangelo54 think it was the other way around. Named her character after her daughter.
@@kalallenxx43 yes, her daughter was born in 1957, and the film was 1963.
My mom liked the name Melanie from this movie and Gone with the Wind. So she named me Melanie. 🙂
That was so intertaning I was 11years old when it came out and remember seeing it at the movies. No one could have played Melanie better than Tipi Hedrin. ..definitely subscribing. THANKS
Your re-enactments are amazing the best. TY, one of the best movies of all times
I have been watching your videos today and absolutely love your work. I was 9 years old when this movie came out and for me it scared the living daylights out of me and made me afraid of birds for a very long time. As I got older I fell in love with Alfred Hitchcock's movies and even found a magazine published about his stories and I still have the magazines. Thank-you for taking me along for your adventures and me going down memory lane. I am a horror movie junkie. Much love to you and Jessica.
There were no (or very few) trees to the left of the schoolhouse in 1962, and now the trees are fully grown.
Hard to believe that it's been 60 years.
Correct. The playground was to the left of the school.
I enjoyed this after watching the movie this afternoon!