Dundee Evening Telegraph (07/Apr/1938) - Film Bits

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• article: Film Bits
• newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph (07/Apr/1938)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Young and Innocent (1937)

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Film Bits

During the filming of "Young and Innocent," showing next week at the King's, it was necessary to record the sound of a dog barking.

The dog on the set, despite the heart-rending appeals of her master, refused to utter more than a desultory yawn every few minutes.

Director Alfred Hitchcock, not to be baulked by a temperamental terrier, cast his eyes round the set and lit upon one of the studio hands, who has an uncanny gift for canine imitation.

"Come on, Jack, see if you can make this blighter bark," he invited.

The man agreed to try, and, standing near the microphone, barked a few times, but the dog failed to respond. Hitchcock kept the cameras running, and signalled to Jack to continue. Towards the end of the "take" the dog started to bark.

When the scene was run through later in the projection room, the sound track of Jack's bark was much more like the real thing than the actual dog's.