Editing Vertigo (film) (section)

====Initial on-site principal photography====
[[File:Vertigo 1958 trailer embrace 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Scottie and Judy in Scottie's apartment, with [[Coit Tower]] visible through the window]]
''Vertigo'' was filmed from September to December 1957.{{sfn|Auiler|2000|p=185}} Principal photography began on location in [[San Francisco]] in September 1957 under the [[working title]] ''From Among the Dead''.<ref name="obsessed" /> The film uses extensive location footage of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. In the driving scenes shot in San Francisco, the main characters' cars are almost always pictured heading down the city's steeply inclined streets.{{sfn|Auiler|2000|p=185}}

The scene in which Madeleine falls from the tower was filmed at [[Mission San Juan Bautista]], a [[Spanish missions in California|Spanish mission]] in [[San Juan Bautista, California]]. Associate producer Herbert Coleman's daughter Judy Lanini suggested the mission to Hitchcock as a filming location. A steeple, added sometime after the mission's original construction and secularization, had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a bell tower much larger than the one previously at the mission using scale models, [[matte painting]]s, and trick photography at Paramount Studios.<ref name="obsessed">"Obsessed with ''Vertigo''", directed by Harrison Engle, documentary included on many DVD releases</ref>

In October 1996, the restored print of ''Vertigo'' debuted at the [[Castro Theatre]] in San Francisco with a live on-stage introduction by Kim Novak.{{sfn|Kraft|Leventhal|2002}} Visiting the San Francisco film locations has accrued modest tourist appeal; such a tour is featured in a subsection of [[Chris Marker]]'s 1983 documentary montage ''[[Sans Soleil]]''.

=====List of shooting locations=====
[[File:Vertigo 1958 trailer Kim Novak at Golden Gate Bridge Fort Point.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Madeleine at [[Fort Point National Historic Site|Fort Point]] beneath the [[Golden Gate Bridge]]]]
*Scottie's apartment (900 [[Lombard Street (San Francisco)|Lombard Street]]) is one block downhill from the "crookedest street in the world". The facade of the building remained mostly intact until 2012, when the owner of the property erected a wall enclosing the entrance area on the Lombard side of the building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reelsf.com/reelsf/vertigo-scotties-house|title=Vertigo – Scottie's House|website=Reel SF|access-date=March 8, 2016}}</ref>{{sfn|Kraft|Leventhal|2002}}
*The rooftop chase took place on Taylor Street between 1302 and 1360.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vertigo Filming Locations |url=http://reelsf.com/vertigo-1958 |website=Reel SF |access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref> 1308 Taylor Street went up for sale in 2016 for $2.2 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=Double Dare: 2 Units in San Francisco Home Featured in 'Vertigo' for Sale |url=https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/vertigo-house-in-san-francisco-condos-for-sale/ |website=realtor.com News |date=May 25, 2016 |access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref>
*The [[Mission San Juan Bautista]], where Madeleine falls from the tower, is a real place, but the tower had to be [[Matte (filmmaking)|matted]] in with a painting using studio effects; Hitchcock had first visited the mission before the tower was torn down due to [[dry rot]], and was reportedly displeased to find it missing when he returned to film. The original tower was much smaller than the one depicted in the film.
*The Carlotta Valdes headstone featured in the film, created by the props department, was left at [[Mission San Francisco de Asís|Mission Dolores]]. The headstone was later removed, as the mission considered it disrespectful to the dead. All other cemeteries in San Francisco had been evicted from the city limits in 1912, so the screenwriters had no other option but to locate the grave at Mission Dolores.
*Madeleine jumps into the bay at [[Fort Point National Historic Site|Fort Point]], underneath the [[Golden Gate Bridge]].
*The gallery where Carlotta's painting appears is the [[Legion of Honor (museum)|California Palace of the Legion of Honor]] in San Francisco. The Carlotta Valdes portrait was lost after being removed from the gallery, but many of the other paintings in the background of the portrait scenes are still on view.
*What purports to be [[Muir Woods National Monument]] in the film is in fact [[Big Basin Redwoods State Park]]; however, the cutaway of the redwood tree showing its age was copied from one that can still be found at Muir Woods.
*The coastal region where Scottie and Madeleine first kiss is Cypress Point, along the [[17-Mile Drive]] near [[Pebble Beach, California|Pebble Beach]]. However, the lone tree they kiss next to was a prop brought specially to the location.{{sfn|Auiler|1999|p=90}}
*The domed building Scottie and Judy walk past is the [[Palace of Fine Arts]].
*Coit Tower appears in many background shots; Hitchcock once said that he included it as a [[Phallus|phallic symbol]].{{sfn|Kraft|Leventhal|2002|p=122}} Also prominent in the background is the tower of the [[San Francisco Ferry Building]].
*The exterior of the sanatorium where Scottie is treated was St. Joseph's Hospital, located at 355 Buena Vista East, across from [[Buena Vista Park]]. The hospital, which was not a sanatorium, was closed in 1979 and then converted into condominiums. The building, built in 1928, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
*Gavin and Madeleine's apartment building "The Brocklebank" at 1000 Mason Street on [[Nob Hill, San Francisco|Nob Hill]] still looks essentially the same. It is across the street from the [[Fairmont San Francisco|Fairmont Hotel]], where Hitchcock usually stayed when he visited the city and where many of the cast and crew stayed during filming. Shots of the surrounding neighborhood feature the [[James C. Flood Mansion]] and [[Grace Cathedral, San Francisco|Grace Cathedral]]. Barely visible is the [[Mark Hopkins Hotel]], mentioned in an early scene in the movie.
*The "McKittrick Hotel" was a privately owned Victorian mansion from the 1880s at Gough and Eddy Streets. It was torn down in 1959 and is now an athletic practice field for [[Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory]] School. The [[St. Paulus Lutheran Church]], seen across from the mansion, was destroyed in a fire in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/09/free_farm_at_gough_and_eddy_in_full_bloom.html |title=From The Flames Of St. Paulus The Free Farm Blooms at SocketSite™ |date=September 2010 |publisher=Socketsite.com |access-date=February 4, 2014}}</ref>
*[[Podesta Baldocchi]] is the flower shop Madeleine visits as she is being followed by Scottie. The shop's location at the time of filming was 224 Grant Avenue; it has since moved to 410 Harriet Street.<ref name="podesta">[http://www.podestabaldocchiflowers.com/scripts/prodList.asp?strSearchMin=10&strSearchMax=999 Podesta Baldocchi], World's Oldest Family Owned Florist – Since 1871.</ref>
*The Empire Hotel is a real place, called the York Hotel, and now the Hotel Vertigo at 940 Sutter Street. Judy's room was created on set, but the green neon of the "Hotel Empire" sign outside is based on the actual hotel's sign.{{efn|Multiple sources:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://reelsf.com/reelsf/vertigo-empire-hotel|title=Vertigo - Empire Hotel|website=Reel SF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf.curbed.com/maps/a-carefully-plotted-totally-stalky-map-of-hitchcocks-vertigo|title=A Carefully Plotted, Totally Stalky Map of Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'|first=Lamar|last=Anderson|date=October 7, 2014|website=Curbed SF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Sutter_Street,_San_Francisco,_California|title=Sutter Street, San Francisco, California - The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki|website=the.hitchcock.zone}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haiyi-hotels.com/hotelvertigosf.html|title=hotelvertigosf|website=Haiyi Hotels}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/v/vertigo_3.html |title=Film locations for Vertigo (1958) |access-date=January 22, 2017 |archive-date=November 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128090551/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/v/vertigo_3.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
*[[Ernie's]] (847 Montgomery St.) was a real restaurant in [[Jackson Square, San Francisco|Jackson Square]], {{convert|1|mile|km}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/900+Lombard+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA/847+Montgomery+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94133/@37.7998492,-122.414521,16z/|title=900 Lombard St to 847 Montgomery St|website=900 Lombard St to 847 Montgomery St}}</ref> from Scottie's apartment. It is no longer operating.{{efn|Multiple sources:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/record=b1007675~S0|title=SF Public Library -- Historical Photographs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cardcow.com/585383/ernies-restaurant-bacchus-cellar-san-francisco-california/|title=Ernie's Restaurant - The Bacchus Cellar|website=CardCow.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/02/11/the-strory-behind-ernies-restaurant-and-alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo/|title=The story behind Ernie's restaurant and Vertigo|first1=T. J. |last1=Jacobberger |date=February 11, 2011 |website=Inside Scoop SF}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjrX5p_qkc4C&q=Ernie%27s&pg=PA263 | title=The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration| isbn=978-0-8108-8122-8| last1=Cunningham| first1=Douglas A| year=2012| publisher=Scarecrow Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Victor-Gotti-restaurateur-who-owned-fabled-5891414.php|title=Victor Gotti, restaurateur who owned fabled Ernie's, dies at 92|first=Carl|last=Nolte|date=November 13, 2014|website=SFGate}}</ref>}}
*One short scene shows [[Union Square, San Francisco|Union Square]] at dawn.  Pop Leibel's bookstore, the Argosy, was not a real location, but one recreated on the Paramount lot in imitation of the real-life Argonaut Book Store, which still exists near Sutter and Jones.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Antiquarian-bookstore-was-favorite-Hitchcock-haunt-3469548.php |title=Antiquarian bookstore was favorite Hitchcock haunt |first=Edward|last=Guthmann|date=April 10, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argonautbookshop.com/ |title=Argonaut Book Shop|access-date=September 4, 2014}}</ref>
*Elster's fictitious [[Dogpatch, San Francisco|Dogpatch]] shipyard office was filmed at the real (or simulated with mattes) [[Union Iron Works]] shipyard, by then the [[Bethlehem Steel]] shipyard. Elster's office has a [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission]] telephone exchange (MI or 64) prefix, regarding which Midge says "Why, that's [[Skid row|Skid Row]]".