Saul Bass’s storyboards for the Psycho shower scene
Saul Bass prepared storyboards for the shower scene, and was on the set
during at least part of the filming. After Hitchcock’s death, Bass asserted that
he had directed the scene at Hitchcock’s invitationa claim definitively
contradicted by both Janet Leigh and Assistant Director Hilton Green. Bass’s
partisans have subsequently held that Hitchcock merely mechanically filmed
shots already laid out by Bass. Comparing the storyboards to the filmed
scene shows that to be untrue. On the other hand, the most crucial elements
of the scene, such as the draineye matchcut and the tracking shot that
follows it, are in the storyboards. That proves nothing about the author of the
scene, however, since Bass drew the storyboards after extensive discussions
with Hitchcock about the design of the scene.
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Psycho shower scene
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Saul Bass’s storyboards for this scene
Stills below reflect every shot of the sequence, as seen on DVD. Letters (a, b,
c, etc.) indicate multiple stills from a single shot (usually involving camera
movement.
a b
a b
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160423133754/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
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a b
c d
e
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160423133754/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-3.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160423133754/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
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Psycho shower scene, 2
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-3.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-3.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/storyboards/psycho/bass-storyboards.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203451/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/gallery.html
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Psycho shower scene, 3
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a
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/storyboards/psycho/bass-storyboards.html
b c
d e
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-4.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/storyboards/psycho/bass-storyboards.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/gallery.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502223425/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/index.html
Psycho shower scene, 4
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a b
c d dissolve to a
b c
d e
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-3.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/storyboards/psycho/bass-storyboards.html
a
b c
d e
f g
h
a
b
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills/shower-3.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/storyboards/psycho/bass-storyboards.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150502222736/http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/gallery.html
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