PSYCHO (1960) Filming Locations in PHOENIX AZ | THEN & NOW (The Buildings are actually still there!)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Come Along with me as we EXPLORE OLD HOLLYWOOD History in the desert in Phoenix AZ! We find the HISTORIC buildings used in the openining scene of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, right before we are introduced to Sam and Marion. Remarkably the buildings used are still there and they have their own interesting history I'll share along the way!
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I live in Phoenix and this video inspired me to go into downtown last night at 2 am in the morning and find these buildings. I found every one of them and was amazed! So cool that after 64 years they are still standing. Thank you for the inspiration and I will be going out again in the daytime when the weather gets cooler, maybe October or thereabouts. Cheers from Arizona!
That is awesome I’m so glad this inspired you to go and see them for yourself! Hope you go take another look when cooler weather makes for better day time viewing! ✨
As a Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann fan, I've been waiting many years for a presentation like this (which exceeded my expectations). Thank you so much.
Wow thank you so much! 🤗 I’m really happy you enjoyed and I thank you for watching! ✨✨
Inside the Hilton Garden Inn there’s a rooftop bar called Floor 13, every cocktail is named after a Hitchcock movie or Hitchcock Presents episode! There’s also a bunch of photos of him, frames from the movie, and a neon Bates Motel sign!
What?! I did not know this!! And I freaking love that! Now I need to go back! Thanks for sharing! Also I need a neon Bates Motel sign 😂
I've lived here all my 55. Love the classic shot of Camelback mountain in the opening scene : ) It's just to the left of the spinning Valley National Bank sign at 1:46.
Beautiful shots and commentary. This is the first video of yours I 've seen - LOVE IT!!! Subscribed and looking forward to more.
Aw thanks Geoff for subscribing and I’m so glad you enjoyed! ✨🤗
Well done! I really enjoyed your vidio, Very well done, great job!! Great detective work and your historical tie in is amazing,Thank You!, I remember watching Psyco as a small child , very scary indeed,The Birds is my favorite Hitchcock film though, Ive been to Bodega Bay many times and toured film locations there. I also had the pleasure of meetting Tippi Henderen once too , She runs a big cat Lion/Tiger sanctuarry outside Los Angeles called Shamballa., met her there, Thank you again, cheers! Thad Carl (Lompoc, California)
Thank you Thad for your kind words and for watching! It was my pleasure and I’m glad you enjoyed! Doing The Birds filming locations is on my list! And very cool you met TH! I didn’t know about her big cat sanctuary! Along the lines of Hitchcock blondes I was lucky enough to find a personal signed photograph of Janet Leigh at an estate sale!
Hitchcock's favorite Hitchcock film was Shadow of a Doubt. And now it's mine too.
I need to see this one!
My two favorites are "The Birds" and "Vertigo." Masterpieces (like "Psycho.")
@@user-bu7jl6zy5dI was just reading in Jimmy Stewart’s biography that Hitchcock blamed Stewart’s age for the lack of Vertigo’s initial success. 😢Funny since now it’s viewed with such high praise!
@@kellywoodclarkI love that movie and actor Jimmy Stewart
@@Thundercloud25me be too! I have a video visiting his grave if you’re interested ✨
Nice dress. Love your use of B&W throughout the presentation. Wonderful film.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed!
And then there's the Psycho House which was on the Universal Studios backlot, where it remains to this day. You can see it from the tram on the Universal Studios tour but during the annual October Halloween Horror nights they let you get off the trams and actually walk up to the house. Believe it or not by the 1970s the significance of that house was so forgotten that I remember seeing an episode of Alias Smith And Jones which supposedly took place out on the western plains and the two characters go riding up to a house and it's the Psycho House!
Interesting information thank you
Yes!! I saw it years ago! But I’ve seen videos of people at HHN and they have a Norman bares actor! I did not know about its later use in that tv show! Funny how things get forgotten before becoming such a part of cinema history! (it’s a wonderful life comes to mind) ✨
OMG Kelly! I absolutely love this video! I generally love videos with narratives like this, but this video was exquisitely made!
Aw wow thank you for your kind words and for watching! 🤗
This is the first video I've seen that detailed Downtown Phoenix in great detail! I hope you do other parts of Phoenix, this was very nostalgic.
Aw happy to hear that Dana! Not sure about other Phoenix videos atm but definitely other filming locations! ✨
Back in 2004 I did the research on where the opening pan shots of the Phoenix cityscape were shot. It was on top of the Phoenix Title and Trust building, now the Orpheum Lofts (a beautiful art deco building). I was able to gain access to the roof deck and re-shoot the sequence. Several taller buildings now block the view, so it is impossible to recapture the scene as it appears in the film.
The building that is under construction in the first few frames (filmed in Dec. 1959) was being torn down when we tried to recreate the opening sequence in 2004. Ironic.
The Adams Hotel at Adams and Central has been there since before the 1920s. The first one burned in one of the city's hottest-ever building fires. The second one was of poured concrete, and that's the building that has the restaurant and coffee shop in it (very common in the day). After the filming of Psycho, the Adams was demolished and rebuilt, and it continued into the new Millennium until Renaissance acquired it.
The antenna on the Westward Ho was the first TV broadcast antenna in Arizona, but it was installed after WWII (1950 or 51 as I recall). The RKO building in LA put their antenna up in the 1930's. The unusual shape and placement of the Westward Ho antenna is due to how it is anchored to the building. It gets its support from having its 3 legs attached to 3 of the 4 corners of the tower.
Thanks for sharing very interesting information
thanks for such an excellent video!! Miss living in PHX
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for watching!
Loved your video, huge Psycho fan! I had the sincere honor and pleasure of meeting Janet Leigh in Orlando when I worked at Universal in 1996? Maybe 1997. She was lovely and true Hollywood royalty! She kissed me on the cheek!
Wonderfully done
Thank you so much for watching I’m glad you enjoyed! ☺️
EXCELLENT video!! Very well presented, with interesting content!
Aww thank you so much for saying so and for watching I’m happy you enjoyed! 🤗✨
I live only slightly north of the hotel shown in the opening scene of "Psycho" and work only blocks from there.
So it's in the back of my mind almost every day for like 25 years now LOL
Hey PHX. I live on McKinley. We've probably passed each other on the street a few times.
You’re right in the heart of it all! I love that! I’d be thinking about it too if I was living in the area!
@@johnjay9404haha neighbors! Love it!
Very cool video, Kelly. Makes me want to spend a couple of nights at the San Carlos. (But maybe wait until November...)
Thanks so much, I’m glad you enjoyed! I want to stay there too but in cooler months is the right idea! 😅 It was steamy when I was there! Also with your username you may like my video that’s coming tomorrow 😉
What a charming video, thanks for producing it.
Aw my pleasure thank you for watching and supporting m glad you enjoyed!
Great video. Always nice to mesh local and Hollywood history together when it is possible!
Thanks for watching Tim I’m glad you enjoyed!! These buildings have some rich history so figured if we’re checking them out it’d be fun to learn more about them ☺️
Love the first part of this flick.
I love the city scenes and the constant tension Hitch develops.
Even that tryst scene, it’s hot and they’re nervous. Then she goes to the car lot, great memorable scenes.
And ultimately it all has nothing to do with the film it’s just the McGuffin! How is that spelled lol.
Great work - new sub! 🎬✨
Hi! Thanks for watching and subscribing! And funny you mention Mcguffin because I was just reading about that as it relates to Hitchcock films and where it derived from in Jimmy Stewart’s biography!
Great video on a superior movie by any standards
Awesome been here in Phx almost 30yrs and never know parts of Psycho were filmed here. Great work. New subscriber.
Fabulous video. I've never been to Phoenix but this was very easy to follow even for someone not familiar with the area. You have a new subscriber.
So glad you enjoyed and I hope you make it over there one day! And thanks for subscribing 🤗🤗
BRAVA!! TY, another brilliant production.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed! 🖤
Excellent video I live near Phoenix and have watched Psycho a few times
Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed! ✨
OMG so glad I found your channel! Love your style
Hi thanks so much for watching!! I’m glad you’re here! 🤗✨
Well done!!
Great video....well done. 😊😊
Thank you so much Tim! I’m glad you enjoyed!🤗
Awesome job on this video. New subscriber.
Thank you I appreciate that and thanks for subscribing! 🤗✨
Fantastic segment. And I, too, had confused the building in the film with the Westward Ho due to the prominent radio tower, despite the buildings having distinctly different shapes.
Great video! I do have one minor correction. The shot at the beginning of psycho is not a helicopter shot. They attempted to do a helicopter shot but it ended up being too bumpy for Hitchcock's taste. Instead the camera was mounted on a tripod on the roof of the Orpheum Lofts building at Adams and 1st street. They simply panned across the Skyline.
Thank you! And I appreciate that correction! I saw someone else also mentioned the Orpheum lofts, I was unable to find that information about where it was shot! So thanks!
@@kellywoodclark I have a friend named John Eves who has a vlog called Evesdropping with Johnny. He also happens to have been a designer for Star Trek and designed the Enterprise E for Star Trek First Contact. He did extensive research on the filming locations for Psycho and you can find his Vlog at the above eavesdropping with Johnny.
@@AtomicAgePicturesoh very cool I’ll check it out thanks for sharing!!
On my lunch break for the past week I've been looking at the Orpheum lofts to get a sense of where the camera would have been and I can actually see the shot lineup. Upon watching the pan shot this morning, if you pause the frame right when you first see the city, to the left you can see the roof and concrete of the lofts on the lower left hand corner for a split second.
I saw this movie at a downtown Jacksonville, Florida theater in 1960 when I was a high school freshman.
Oh my gosh no way! That must have been quite the experience, especially with the lengths Hitchcock went to hiding the shower scene surprise! Were you shocked when it happened?? 😮
Thanks for watching! You know my favorite Hitchcock film now I want to known what is your’s?! 🖤
Shadow a doubt 😊 but pysho bryds northy by nw vertigo are legendary
@@master-kq3nw Excellent choices! I’ve seen them all
except Doubt! ✍️ Adding to the watch list ✍️☺️
It has to be North By Northwest; but Strangers On A Train ranks very high for me too.
Interestingly, Hitchcock made a film set in 1830s Australia, starring Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman. It is called Under Capricorn. Whodathunk?
Very, Very good video ! Delivered office supplies in the 60s for a couple of years by bicycle all around down town.
So many things you brought up I did not know. Thanks !
Really enjoyed the video. Psycho is such a classic as is Psycho 2 imo.
I’m so happy to hear that!! Thank you for watching! It’s been so long since I’ve seen Psycho 2! I must add it to my viewing list!
I'm a big fan of Hitchcock and I live in Phoenix- you did such a great job on this video! I subscribed 🙂 now do Tucson and San Diego 😃
Thanks Mark for your kind words and subscribing! No current plans for Tucson but working on something for San Diego!✨🤗
@kellywoodclark sweet! Tucson has had lots of film activity- Stir Crazy, & Can't Buy Me Love, among many others! Martin Scorcese's first film called Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore- which was later turned into the sitcom Alice- I'd be happy to help any way possible
“Shadow of a doubt” is kinda a precursor to “Psycho” as far as you can’t tell who’s a crazy in your mitst
That ones one my watch list!!
Well done.
Thank you and thanks for watching!!
Great video! Did you go to the Valley Bar across from the San Carlos Hotel? Entrance is in an alley and you take the stairs down to a bar and music venue. There’s no connection to the movie but the bar design is done in a way to tell the story of the Winnie Ruth Judd murder, one of AZs most historic murder cases. It’s like something out of a Hitchcock movie so you’d probably enjoy it. Plus being in the basement is a good way to beat the heat! 🥵Hope you had fun in Phoenix!
I'm a former Phoenician with degrees in film and television. Kudos on your excellent and informative presentation!
Wow thanks so much Chris! ✨
Talking about locations when it comes to a Hitchcock film is very relative, since he preferred to shoot in film studios and constantly used process shots and matte paintings.
I don’t know if I’d say relative since there are locations (a few more from psycho the birds and vertigo come to mind and all ones I want to visit! ) but yes less common than sets! I talked about one of the process shots in the video that was used in psycho with footage taken from the street these buildings are on😊
The Night of the Lepus would be a great Arizona location to do a video on...
I can’t say I’m familiar with that one 😮
The narrator is so pretty!
That’s me! Thank you so much ☺️
Even wearing that lovely classic summer dress. Classy. ✨
Didn't know about the different building in the 98 version, I think that explains a lot of the confusion!
Also the 98 version should have never happened😮
@@DavidClark-hd3oyagreed on both accounts 😆
Love it!
Thanks for watching!
If you stay at the San Carlos, just be aware the bathrooms are tiny and the walls are thinner than paper. My wife and I could hear our neighbor crying so clearly. Almost like she was in our room. In the morning she and her man apparently made up (if you know what I mean).
Heartbreak hotel
Nice job! One thing however, none of the opening shots were done with a helicopter, they are all static cameras at various heights panning and zooming. Hitchcock originally wanted a single long helicopter shot which started with Phoenix in the distance and flew towards it while the opening titles ran, eventually ending up at the hotel and going into the window. This proved to be too technically difficult and expensive (Psycho was shot on a small budget using the crew from Hitchcock's television show to save money). The 1998 remake revived the concept.
You could of also visited some of the locations for the Clint Eastwood film The Gauntlet
I was one that thought the tower was the Westward Ho.
Pysho house still there ,,,some buildings in phx change
I saw the psycho house yeaaaaaaaars ago! I need to go back to universal!
To bag you couldn’t get up to the 4th. Floor room. I’m sure it was filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood but it would have been a cool place to see.
Everyone used to tell me I look like Anthony Perkins. It was offensive to me since Psycho was his most known works 😄
Oh my gosh no it’s a compliment he was so handsome! I have a photo of him on my wall ✨✨
@@kellywoodclark Well, I always look like someone it seems. I think I look like me, and that’s it lol. Interesting I never knew Phoenix was the focus of this film. I’ve lived here my whole life 😄
Did not know parts of Psycho were filmed in Phoenix. Do you think it might be because I’ve only watched “The Birds”, “Vertigo”, and “North by Northwest.”
One thing doesn't add up, if it was filmed in December why was the hotel room hot with a fan running?
When I drive through Phoenix I make sure the doors are locked and keep driving.
Pitch in. Buy her a drone
I believe you're mistaken about the window used for Marian and Sam's room. If you notice, there are 7 columns of double windows on the hotel location. The center column, the 4th from the right (and the left) has a horizontal cornice at the very top and a horizontal lighter sandstone row separating the top floor windows from the second row down. Both that cornice and the sandstone strip bump out slightly around the center column of double windows. So if the window you chose was the actual one shot by the second unit - second row from the top, third pair from the right - then as the shot zooms in we should see that bump out of the sandstone strip just to the left of the hero window. But we don’t see that bump out... the horizontal sandstone strip is flat just to the left of the hero window. So, I believe this tells us that the hero window is one column farther to the right, or the second row down from the top (as you guessed) but only the second column from the right, not the third. "Close, but no cigar" as they say. Thanks for the video... fun.
So, the brothel and casino only needed two weeks of operation in order to reach its funding goal?
That's hilarious.
But, also pretty typical of human behavior.
Kind of makes you wonder, maybe a GoFundme isnt the answer...hmmm.
Haha it definitely makes you think! 😅
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Hitchcock didn't use a helicopter in the opening shots of PSYCHO. Too expensive.
THEY NEVER CAME CROSS SCENES THAT MISSEN IN FILM. THERES LOT. I SAW IN 1970 TO 1974. NO ONE TODAY EVEN REMEMBERS TOTALLY ERASE FROM HISTORY THAT THEY BUTCHERED CLASSIC