A Hidden History of Film Style by Christopher Beach

Author:Christopher Beach
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520284340
Publisher: University of California Press

Figure 27. The camera eye as voyeur: Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) is in perfect focus as he is observed from across the courtyard. (Rear Window, Paramount, 1954)

The lighting requirements for the film were equally demanding. The set had seventy windows and doors, each of which had to be lit as if they were separate sets. Moreover, since much of the action of the film occurs at night, Burks had to light the entire set for both daytime and nighttime shooting. The rigging of the Rear Window set was the most elaborate electrical job ever undertaken at Paramount, and it severely taxed the studio’s resources. At one point during filming, almost every piece of lighting equipment on the Paramount lot was in use on Hitchcock’s set. James Stewart recalled the consequence of all those lights:

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