Also the often forgotten John Whitney, who figured out how to draw Bass's designs with high enough precision to animate them by using a WW2 mechanical gun targeting computer to drive a pendulum connected to a paint feed. Arguably the first use of computer animation in a Hollywood film.
A spellbinding, genuinely disturbing and provocative movie maker, over forty years since his passing, Alfred Hitchcock remains the master of cinematic creation. Like more profound and inventive, influential and lasting than even Kubrick, Spielberg, Ford, Scorcese, Lean, Wai, Coppola, Scott, Friedkin, Wyler, Lang, Murnau, Wilder, Kurosawa, Bergman, Welles, Cameron, Leone, Malick, Griffith and several other master class film directors.
Saul Bass was one of the best ever at title sequences. Plus on this film, Hitchcock had DP Burks, editor Tomasini and Bernard H for music. They were the best he had.
This is my second favorite opening credit sequence of a Hitchcock movie. Psycho is number one for me. Also for psycho and this one, holy shit the score and the music is half the experience. Masterfully made
@@randywhite3947 I love all three you list there, they'd be near the top of my Hitch list (along with some great earlier stuff like 39 Steps) but Vertigo is right up there for many people. It's a harder watch than say, North by Northwest which is more of an adventure movie, but it's still a great piece of work.
They must've really loved showing off directors. You see all the names pass by clumped in small letters and then in bold: *DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK*
I feel bad because (the greed driven) they dont show classic movies inside large screen theaters anywhere near as much as they should and deserve to be.
They're Lissajous figures, produced by a mathematical function that describes complex harmonic motion. What's particularly fascinating is that complex harmonic motion can through very simple means reach a chaotic state, which is utterly unpredictable. A very apt metaphor for Jimmy Stewart's tortured psychological state.
Genius. The golden age of film music. Herrmann was one of the best in history. And now, we have scumbags like Hans Zimmer ruining the film music industry. My God, how low we have sunk.
I think Zimmer gets some unneccesary hate for almost no reason. I agree that he is not on a par with Herrmann, Williams or Goldsmith etc. But I think the scores he does fit with the films and that's the main thing. I mean can you imagine Inception or Interstellar with this kind of music, it just wouldnt really go well with modern cinema.
Whoa, Zimmer has done some decent stuff. Not all of it, but his scores for Hannibal and Interstellar are excellent, Interstellar especially. I agree he's not at Herrmann's level, but then few were.
I know her personally as she's the mom of some friends of mine, but I don't know her name! She's in her 80s now and an adorable person. She went on a date with Elvis!
@benvolio mozart I know this but appreciate your confirmation. But even beyond the eyes - the image is not of the principal female character Judy/Madeline - instead she is anonymous, fearful and feared, her skin/lips/ in fact her total physiognomy is imperfect... she is rather monstrous...and Hitchcock wanted it that way...
@benvolio mozart In fact, there is much the viewer can ascertain from this strange creature about the female characters in the film. I'd give you an A if you were my student who analyzed this scene...As for the scene in Ernie's - Madeline is far less "angelic" than a ghost emerging from a womb of deception (dining room). If you notice how Hitch filmed her as she exits...gliding not walking. Creepy! czcams.com/video/cJxM5rG82aA/video.html
@@johncarter579 IDK... but I do not think it is Madeline. She is meant to be a platonic creation - just a version of real. An ideal version of a woman but a negative version.
Like they obviously knew they were making a color movie. So what was their artistic point beginning this in black and white? Makes no visual sense, doesnt even look right. Clashes and detracts, lessening the overall effects of colorized haunted ambiance throughout.
Saul Bass and Bernard Hermann are in top forms here. This is absolutely unforgettable movie experience. A truly hypnotic one. How come a movie becomes so close to perfection that almost creates a template for generations to come. Hitchcock masterpiece. A timeless classic.
Could you imagine this opening sitting in a theater back in the day...
I think about the same thing every time I watch this movie or when watching opening sequence online. A Masterpiece ! Period !
gvalley07 I just did that a few week ago watching it for the first time ever!!! It was so amazing!!!
gvalley07 bad
I could since I saw this film for the first time in a cinema (for a Hitchcock retrospective)... It was chilling.
I saw this at a concert hall. It was projected onto screen, and the Toronto Symphony played the music live. It was incredible
Probably the best movie title sequence ever!
Probably the best movie ever. Awesome
Watchmen?, Drive!!??
But that's you're opinion
@@naaji5606 I was also thinking about Watchmen lol but yeah there's a lot more.
@Ray watchmen is great
@@naaji5606 taxi driver and apocalipsis now
Bernard Herrmann had some of the finest scores to ever grace the movies, and on television. He is forever missed.
And Steiner fs
Saul Bass+Bernhard Hermann= Perfection!
The greatest support duo ever.
...and Alfred Hitchcock, of course
Also the often forgotten John Whitney, who figured out how to draw Bass's designs with high enough precision to animate them by using a WW2 mechanical gun targeting computer to drive a pendulum connected to a paint feed. Arguably the first use of computer animation in a Hollywood film.
Saul Bass also did Goodfellas
So ahead of its time, Hitchcock was such a genius!
The genius goes to Saul Bass!
@@michaelvoigtlander9721 The genius was John Whitney who used a computer to create the spirals. The first use of CGI in a film.
@@michaelvoigtlander9721 For the music Bernard Hermann
True of course
I have never really cared about titles and opening sequences until I met Vertigo
I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen. Amazing. We had a Hitchcock festival.
This is brilliant, beautiful and disturbing and always will be.
A spellbinding, genuinely disturbing and provocative movie maker, over forty years since his passing, Alfred Hitchcock remains the master of cinematic creation. Like more profound and inventive, influential and lasting than even Kubrick, Spielberg, Ford, Scorcese, Lean, Wai, Coppola, Scott, Friedkin, Wyler, Lang, Murnau, Wilder, Kurosawa, Bergman, Welles, Cameron, Leone, Malick, Griffith and several other master class film directors.
Scott who?
@@87dramarama Ridley scott
I truly don’t know if he was that good, even though I’m a huge fan
"i want hitchcocks rotting hitchcock" is all i can interpret.
@@territorialtea747he is one of the few directors that made me watch a full movie made in the 30s, trust me he is good
The eye widening gives me chills.
I keep wondering what she saw that frightened her
I've always imagined its the lady in the film whose face we never see
0:48 The first woman to grow a James Moustewartache.
Wonderful score. Great movie! Thanks.
This transports people back to 1958 it’s crazy from another time my great grandparents were alive and well great time to be alive
correct. Far better than today!
My dad once rented a VHS copy of this film back when I was a kid, and this part scared me to death haha
Vertigo is the best movie ever
This title sequence seems to me the most brilliant title sequence.The title sequence made the plot twist more enjoyable and surprising.
*So iconic and perfect.* Hitchcock a GENIUS in every sense, presenting us one of his many masterpieces.
Beautiful …
My favourite Hitchcock film
This is how iTunes visualizer was made.
One Of Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpieces
man when i saw this movie the title sequence was the best
Masterpiece, I was 13th when I wacht this intro, and never I forgot ❤🎉
Technically one of the first uses of CGI in film. And in 1958 no less.
One of Hitchcock's best!!
Saul Bass was one of the best ever at title sequences. Plus on this film, Hitchcock had DP Burks, editor Tomasini and Bernard H for music. They were the best he had.
Estupendo contraste entre la calmada musica logo de James Horner y la misteriosa y potente intro de Herrmann.
This is my second favorite opening credit sequence of a Hitchcock movie. Psycho is number one for me. Also for psycho and this one, holy shit the score and the music is half the experience. Masterfully made
Psycho and Vertigo are his finest works, after all
Brotherhood north by northwest, Strangers on a train, and Rear Window are all better
@@randywhite3947 I love all three you list there, they'd be near the top of my Hitch list (along with some great earlier stuff like 39 Steps) but Vertigo is right up there for many people. It's a harder watch than say, North by Northwest which is more of an adventure movie, but it's still a great piece of work.
@@randywhite3947 Nah
@@ssaejonna1620 yah
First use of slit scan photographic technique in a motion picture. This was the inspiration for Trurnbull's work on 2001.
I was wondering if they might be the same guy. What an innovative time that period was for film
George tomasini must have been a famous editor back in the day
Well his editing for this film is amazing I must say
Mesmerizing eerie music is perfect and haunting
Someone tell me what it’s called
"Prelude and rooftop"
Happy 100th Birthday Saul Bass!
Just saw this at the theater today.
Martin Scorcese's "CapeFear" 😱
Great intro
First use of computer animation in a major film.
This is obviously from the 1996 reissue of the film, judging by the early 90s Universal logo at the start.
BORN THIS WAY MV
Ghosts of Mississippi 1996
They must've really loved showing off directors. You see all the names pass by clumped in small letters and then in bold: *DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK*
Who is "they"? The front size is because of Hitch's contract.
Hitchcock is the real star of this film though
You mean "Hitchcock really loved showing off"
Look like sharingan
I feel bad for not watching it in the theatre...
I feel bad because (the greed driven) they dont show classic movies inside large screen theaters anywhere near as much as they should and deserve to be.
Well if you're under 70 you probably didn't have a great chance to
Apologies if a strange comment, whoever arranged the visual sequence certainly understood vertigo issues.
... espiral ...
Which DVD release was this?
it was probably from the laserdisc but cropped to 16x9 to eliminate the box effect
cornish chris laser disc
@@lunaracc914 That would seem likely; the early 90s Universal logo at the start is a dead giveaway.
Born This Way music video intro
Ew
Fucking no
*dislike*
@@lunaracc914 fucking yes
Such a weird movie but shot masterfully.
1:27 Sharingan
Check this out:
rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/9/did-vertigo-introduce-computer-graphics-cinema/
Who composed the old Universal theme?
Don't know but its awesome isn't it ?
James Horner
How did he get the spirals in the beginning
They're Lissajous figures, produced by a mathematical function that describes complex harmonic motion. What's particularly fascinating is that complex harmonic motion can through very simple means reach a chaotic state, which is utterly unpredictable. A very apt metaphor for Jimmy Stewart's tortured psychological state.
As in, "You were a very apt pupil. A very apt pupil."
Vapid Kevin Costner and wretched Mel Gibson have Oscars for directing and Alfred Hitchcock....doesn’t 🙄
Nominated but never won a single Oscar. Though he did win an Irving G. Thalberg award, he still didn’t win any other Academy Award.
Fuck the Oscars. They never gave it to the best of all, Stanley Kubrick.
Yes, that's shame!
Fun fact: this opening sequence has the first CGI ever to be used in a movie.
First movie to use a computer generated title sequence
The spinning shapes and patterns were drawn using a repurposed ww2 anti aircraft computer 😮
Good
my cat has aids
Whose eyes are these (??) ...
The wife who was murdered and replaced with Kim Novak, hence the examining of her features (to see if the replica would suit)
Back when San Fran was livable before the vile fringe lift seized power!
Genius. The golden age of film music. Herrmann was one of the best in history. And now, we have scumbags like Hans Zimmer ruining the film music industry. My God, how low we have sunk.
Hans Zimmer is fine man he is not that bad.
I think Zimmer gets some unneccesary hate for almost no reason. I agree that he is not on a par with Herrmann, Williams or Goldsmith etc. But I think the scores he does fit with the films and that's the main thing. I mean can you imagine Inception or Interstellar with this kind of music, it just wouldnt really go well with modern cinema.
Whoa, Zimmer has done some decent stuff. Not all of it, but his scores for Hannibal and Interstellar are excellent, Interstellar especially. I agree he's not at Herrmann's level, but then few were.
Yo that's unfair to Zimmer wtf
Who is the lady in the opening?
I know her personally as she's the mom of some friends of mine, but I don't know her name! She's in her 80s now and an adorable person. She went on a date with Elvis!
@@feelingcrafty that's cool.
Joanne Genthon, she died in June of 2018
@@shannahmc Joanne Genthon is Carlotta in Jimmy Steward's dream, but is she also the one in the opening titles ?
@@itsmeinparis I think so
1963 😧
Frightening. The woman with dilated pupils.
@benvolio mozart I know this but appreciate your confirmation. But even beyond the eyes - the image is not of the principal female character Judy/Madeline - instead she is anonymous, fearful and feared, her skin/lips/ in fact her total physiognomy is imperfect... she is rather monstrous...and Hitchcock wanted it that way...
@benvolio mozart In fact, there is much the viewer can ascertain from this strange creature about the female characters in the film. I'd give you an A if you were my student who analyzed this scene...As for the scene in Ernie's - Madeline is far less "angelic" than a ghost emerging from a womb of deception (dining room). If you notice how Hitch filmed her as she exits...gliding not walking. Creepy! czcams.com/video/cJxM5rG82aA/video.html
@@elenij3781 it's the real Madelaine, and she's just realised she hasn't much time left
@@johncarter579 IDK... but I do not think it is Madeline. She is meant to be a platonic creation - just a version of real. An ideal version of a woman but a negative version.
@@johncarter579 not anything like the "real" Madeline. Not even close. She's monstrous at best...a fearful victim at worst.
Man, this is a weird James Bond film.
No one knows who is this women
Gary Hunt isn't she Kim Novak?
many people seem to think it's Joanne Genthon, the same woman who played Carlotta in Scotty's nightmare
@@shannahmc thank you!!
It’s a frightful ghost...the woman who disappears in the boarding house scene.
She's my friend's mom, but I honestly don't know her name, LOL! She's an adorable person.
Lady Gaga's Born This Way Music Video opening scene
Apparently, it was the first use of CGI.
Sounds like Inception at times
Yes, and probably not entirely unintentional given Nolan's film knowledge!
Like they obviously knew they were making a color movie. So what was their artistic point beginning this in black and white? Makes no visual sense, doesnt even look right. Clashes and detracts, lessening the overall effects of colorized haunted ambiance throughout.
Saul Bass and Bernard Hermann are in top forms here. This is absolutely unforgettable movie experience. A truly hypnotic one. How come a movie becomes so close to perfection that almost creates a template for generations to come. Hitchcock masterpiece. A timeless classic.
Epic.