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The Birds : Opening Sequence

Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) pretends to work at a bird shop to impress Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who is looking for a couple of love birds.

Opening Sequence

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Credits, Opening, diegetic sound, dolly in, dolly shot, eyeline match, fade-in, fade-out, fill lighting, following shot, full shot, long shot, match on action, medium close-up, medium shot, one-shot, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, overhead shot, pan, shot/reverse shot, soft focus, static camera, superimposed titles, two-shot

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White, White: White American

"Opening Sequence" in The Birds. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1963, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3629

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