Syd Dutton
Biography
Syd Dutton is a visual effects artist, specialized in matte paintings.
Documentaries
He has appeared in the following Hitchcockian documentaries...
- All About The Birds (2000)
Quotes
Film Production
One of the stories that Al [Whitlock] related to me was when he showed a test one of his background paintings of Bodega Bay to Hitchcock. It was a beautiful scene of Bodega Bay in the background. Hitch thought it looked very beautiful. Without Al being there, he showed it to Peggy Robertson, his assistant. And he said, "What do you think?" And she said, "Oh, that looks like a painting." And Hitch stiffened and thought, "Oh." Then he said, "You know, of course, it's real." And she said, "Oh, I know it's real, but it's so beautiful it could be a painting." And so it was a compliment to Al's extraordinary painting skills that it fooled everybody but was still bigger than life.
— Syd Dutton (2000)
source: Documentary: All About The Birds
keywords: Albert Whitlock, Alfred Hitchcock, Bodega Bay, Peggy Robertson, The Birds (1963), and production
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