CONTINUITY for CROP DUSTING SEQUENCE, SCENE 115, in North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)

CONTINUITY FOR CROP DUSTING SEQUENCE, SCENE 115, in North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)

1, High Shot – Bus arriving – Man out.
2. Lonely figure (Sketch 3)
3. Waist Shot – Thornhill looks about him in four directions.
a. Process plate for all Thornhill’s Close Ups.
4. a. P.O.V. Through wide fence onto plowed field.
b. P.O.V. Empty road from where bus came
c. P.O.V. Past Brush
d. P.O.V. Corn Field
e. P.O.V. Empty road ahead
5. Closer Shot – Thornhill glances at west with satisfaction and then looks up road expectantly.
6. Car (Mercury) coming down road left to right. Whips by. Whip Shot
7. Semi Close Up. Thornhill’s head whips around. He turns back and looks up road. – Nothing. His expression changes as he hears a car and turns back in the direction of the previous car.
8. Second Whip Shot – Limousine coming along at not too fast a pace. Again car whips by.
9. Semi Close Up – Thornhill’s head turns with changing expression from slight apprehension to normal expectancy.
10. P.O.V. As the limousine is well down the road a truck comes. It approaches at fast speed and whips by right to left.
11. Wind of rushing truck causes Thornhill to step back a shade. Overlap truck whizzing by.
12. Full figure of Thornhill standing lonely once more. There is a chugging sound off – he takes a step forward.
a. Closer shot of Thornhill
13. P.O.V. Green sedan is turning around from corn field.
14. Waist Shot – Thornhill as he watches green sedan and reacts to action in #15.
15. P.O.V. Sedan comes to stop, man gets out. Wife inside, turns car. Man is left standing alone as sedan goes away.
INTERCUT THIS WITH THORNHILL WATCHING ALL THIS.
16. Semi Long Shot two men isolated. One, one side of the road opposite the other.
17. Semi Close Up – Thornhill looking across at man. He dusts himself off.
18. Semi Long Shot – The man from Thornhill’s P.O.V. He looks back to Thornhill.
19. Medium Shot – Thornhill come to decision. He crosses the road diagonally.
Camera panning with him until the man comes into picture right of screen –
21 for dialogue scene.
a. Bus approaching to intercut dialogue scene #19.
20. P.O.V. of Airplane.
21. Back to shot of two men (Waist). Bus pulls up to stop. Farmer gets on bus which pulls away. Thornhill left looking off at crop duster plane.
22. The crop duster is making turn on left-hand side of screen.
23. Waist shot – Thornhill watching it.
24. Plane coming nearer, and nearer, and nearer to camera.
25. Reverse – Thornhill viewing with alarm.
26. Objective Shot – STUDIO-Plane diving down on Thornhill, who ducks to ground.
NOTE: PLANE REQUIRED FOR THIS SHOT, LOOKS OFF
27. Plane rising away from its dive and going away from us.
28. Fulll Figure – Thornhill rises to his feet – looks after the plane and looks about him desperately wondering where he can go. He is suddenly rooted as he sees.
29. P.O.V. Now coming towards him in line with the farmer’s road.
30. Medium Shot – Thornhill, thoroughly alarmed dives off into ditch, camera panning him. He crouches down as plane is making a dive.
31. STUDIO SHOT – Plane makes a dive over Close UP Thornhill in ditch.
Wheels go through rop of picture. Thornhill watching.
32. P.O.V. Plane going away again.
33. Medium Shot – Thornhill gets out of ditch and runs toward an approaching car. He tries to stop (by Robertson sign) but car goes on.
34. Close Shot – Thornhill looking after departing car. He looks off and sees …………………….. .
35. P.O.V. Plane turning and coming down above road apposite farmer’s road.
36. Waist shot – Shooting over Thornhill’s shoulder – plane is approaching him. Thornhill turns and runs toward camera. Camera tracks back. We now have a picture of Thornhill running with occasional frantic glances over his shoulder as the plane approaches him. The plane gains on Thornhill and dives close to him as he drops to ground out of picture.
37. STUDIO SHOT – Thornhill drops onto side road as the wheels again go above him. Bullets hit the road between Thornhill and camera.
38. Alternate – See sketch 39 for alternate shot taken on as Thornhill funs under passing wheel.
39. Close Shot – Thornhill rising in road. He looks off and sees ……… .
40. Long Shot – Corn as Sketch 41
41. Medium Shot – Shooting East Northeast. Thornhill after looking at corn field, rises and dusts off. Plane to right in the background in beginning to make a right to left sweep in a forward turn. (Wing over)
42. Closer shot. Waist height – Starting with stationary camera. Dolly profile shot of Thornhill running with 203 glances over his shoulder left to right. After short run of camera, camera stops and Thornhill runs out of picture.
43. P.o.v. Dolly Shot – Camera moving backwards as though Thornhill seeing plane beginning to make a turn to come towards Thornhill.
44. Thornhill dives from left to scene full figure and dives onto ground
45. Flash – Skimming shot of leaves moving as Thornhill dives into the corn and weaves short way through it. The shimmering stops and the corn stays still.
46. Medium Shot – Thornhill lying doggo without any movement in the corn.
47. Objective Shot – Long shot the plane diving towards the corn and turning away.
48. Close Shot Thornhill – A dolly of set in his face but still lying doggo.
49. Long Shot – corn tabbed in the corner of the picture. The plane turns and now comes toward camera again. This time it starts to exclude dust. It swerves toward camera secluding dust.
50. STUDIO SHOT (Sky backing) – Close shot Thornhill – Roar of plane overhead. Thornhill’s expression changes as asphyxiating dust falls all around him. He begins to cough and sneeze, etc. Camera dollies into close up shot. He needs air. He rises out of corn, takes a deep breath and goes off.
51. Long Shot – From corn field view point. In far distance is double gasoline truck with ocrn in foreground.
52. Close up Thornhill dives out of picture, camera left ( Studio Shot)
53. Double for Thornhill – Long Shot – Shooting towards the highway. The flying fall of Thornhill diving toward the highway and in the distant truck approaching.
54. Flash – Sky Shot – The plane circling after the corn dusting failure.
This should be shot at a reasonable distance away.
55. Semi Long Shot – Thornhill diving onto the roadway, braces himself against the advancing truck which is only a short distance from him.
He watches it frantically at the same time looking desperately off screen to the right.
56. Flash – The plane coming down the highway after Thornhill.
57. Medium Shot – The frantically waving arms of Thornhill.
58. The truck advancing on him as it swerves with a screech of brakes.
59. Thornhill (Double) losing his nerve, tries to dive away and slips between the wheels of the truck.
60. Flash – Low Shot of the plane scooping down with the big wheel in the foreground, coming to a screech and the plane dives at the same moment.
61. Miniature Impact