The Lady Vanishes Sparknotes

The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy, who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train, but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert, a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit, who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques that were used in the film, that are still used today. The film is black and white because color film didn’t start till later on. Back to the scene, there are lot of reaction shots to show how the characters reactions after being hit in the face by a pinch to the face or being choked. And it gives the
Along with that the scene has a low key lighting, which helps emphasize how serious the situation and gives of a dark mood. Because you don’t know what’s going to be the outcome of this fight, so it makes viewers be on the edge of their seats. The tempo is pretty fast in between in shots because both actors are hitting each other in various ways. Like boom, boom, boom, it doesn’t stop till ones lying on the floor. Towards the end of this scene is shot at a low angel because both actors are on the floor wrestling with each other. And that also is shot at an extreme close up because you want to see the look on these actors faces. However, most of this scene is shot at an eye level angel, you can watch it with your two eyes or one or with your ears and that helps look at the action that’s about to be unfold. Overall, I feel the filmmakers or Alfred Hitchock did an OK job because there a lot of improvements that can be done in this film. I feel like there should’ve been more a variety of techniques used because a lot of those same techniques were very