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How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear

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Part II: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=RtjERWANv38

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More interested in the showerhead shot from Psycho... You know... this one:

https://acookdail.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bath2.jpg

How did Hitchcock get a shot, straight up into a running showerhead, without getting water on the lens?

That has always puzzled me.
- It looks like the water is shooting outwards only. Maybe a carefully crafted shower head that sprays more to the sides and nothing in center?
- More interested in the showerhead shot from Psycho...
  
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  Re:how...Psycho is one of my all-time favorite movies and in all the years and all the times I've rewatched it, I've never, ever thought about how that shot was achieved! I'm inclined to agree with @bennyinc@feddit.de
  
  I heard a rumor years ago, no idea if it's true or not... That Hitch did it by constructing an oversized showerhead and running salt through it rather than water.
  
  Interesting solution, and you can kind of see it in the still I posted.
  
  Would love to confirm it.
- Probably by getting water on something covering the lens.
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