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Of cars, showers, keys, and kiosks

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I recently was traveling in a rented Toyota Corolla that flashed a message on the dash after about three straight hours of driving, gently suggesting that it was high time the driver took a break. It featured a little picture of a steaming coffee cup to go with the chiding, just for some extra motivation.

Is this the wave of the future? Will your car turn into your nanny? Has it already?

Speaking of which – on this same trip I’m staying in a motel because I’m away from home visiting some relatives for the holidays. This motel has a type of shower curtain I first started noticing a few years ago and which seems to now be obligatory in all motels and hotels. Its top fourth is transparent or translucent, so that a person taking a shower can see the head of anyone entering the bathroom, and the person entering can see only the head of the person taking a shower and not his or her naked body.

What’s up with this? It’s not exactly a privacy thing, because the old-fashioned opaque type of shower curtain actually gave more privacy to the showering person. It seem to me to be a privacy compromise, shielding the body while allowing the person in the shower to know exactly who has just entered. But don’t people knock and identify themselves any more? Do they just barge in?

Or is it a remnant from the movie “Psycho,” in which the deranged motel keeper played by Tony Perkins offed Janet Leigh in the shower not very far into the movie, horrifying as well as perplexing millions of moviegoers, and leaving some of them with a showering-in-motels phobia?

Inquiring minds want to know – at least, this inquiring mind wants to know. And from some comments here, I discovered that people who like this type of shower curtain appreciate the fact that it lets in more light than the opaque kind. But I can’t recall having any problems with lack of light in a modern motel bathroom; the lighting is usually very bright, actually. But I’ll accept that maybe the light factor rather than the Psycho explanation is the reason for the ubiquity of this type of curtain.

While we’re at it – I understand why motels have computerized cards now instead of actual keys for their rooms. But does anyone else have a hard time making the cards work? They all seem to be different. Sometimes you insert them. Sometimes you swipe them. Sometimes they need to hover. Sometimes they need to merely touch. Sometimes the solution seems random – you stand there with your bags and try each variation until one finally works.

And don’t tell me to just look at the handy little graphic diagram that purports to show you. I do look for it. But sometimes there’s no diagram. And often the diagram doesn’t really do the trick of making it clear.

Same for parking permit kiosks. Oh, for the parking meters of old! The new ones vary a lot, and a person has to stand at the kiosk for a while reading the fine print (sometimes obscured by snow, ice, or darkness) while an impatient line forms.

[NOTE: I thought I’d check out that “Psyco” scene again, just to refresh my memory, and I find I have no desire to watch it. Too upsetting, still. But I did notice from the first few seconds that the shower curtain in that scene is actually very slightly translucent. As Perkins enters, you can see that someone is there, although you haven’t a clue who it is.]

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Of cars, showers, keys, and kiosks — 31 Comments

  1. Towels are the principal problem in motel bathrooms. Not shower curtains.

    Why the towel cover-up ? (get Durham on the case)

  2. The parking meters at least where I live are ridiculous. Most now have the sticker in the window system. So you park (if you can find a spot cuz we’re saving the environment and all) then walk to the machine and then put money in with no idea how much gives you how long then return to your car and put the sticker on the inside of window facing the street. Usually I end up buying way more minutes than I need but it’s like a guessing game. What a stupid process.

  4. When I was on the road after leaving San Francisco, I had a tough time with hotel card keys myself. It takes a “touch” which is non-transferable to the next hotel.

    I’ve also noticed at hotels and newer/remodeled houses, the bath/shower controls are often intelligence tests. God knows why. My guess is that each new generation of design majors feels compelled to reinvent those wheels.

    The other day I was talking with a lit major in grad school about “Moby Dick.” Turns out she did an A paper on it. Her winning idea was that in “Moby Dick” Melville showed there could be no single meaning. How very postmodern!

    I asked her about the theme of obsession. She shrugged and said, “That card has already been played.”

  5. I remember when hotels first went to key cards it seemed they worked about half the time and you often had to trek back to the desk to get a new one but it seems like they are more reliable now. Or maybe it’s just practice makes perfect as now we use cards for everything from the gas pump to the grocery store. The one odd thing and I’m sure there is a cost issue or something but having both a slide model and an insert model seems strange. One standard method would be better.

  6. huxley:

    Agreed about the shower controls. I have sometimes stood in front of a hotel shower at 2 AM and nearly wept with frustration at trying to figure out the latest twist on the game of “how do you operate this one?”.

  7. Don’t put your room key card anywhere near your phone. The phone’s EM signal will either erase the card or cause it to be “squirrely”. Avoids a trip to the front desk for replacement. I put the card in my wallet and phone goes in opposite pocket from wallet, and avoid getting them close to each other.

  8. How many people are employed fixing or updating things that don’t need to be changed? It’s like all the people involved in pop-up ads all over the internet. Do these people get their kicks out of driving normal people nuts? Another group are those who do instructions for anything you buy. There are 10 pages of safety instructions in 10 languages and one half page of directions in the smallest type available. I still think companies should be required to have a grandmother on their board to remind the younguns about common sense.

  9. Expat,

    AFAIK, and this is according to an attorney friend, all the safety disclaimers are lawsuit protection. Supposedly there is one in hedge clipper instructions that it is NOT to be used for haircuts.

  11. Cards cost cents, and can be set to expire after a certain period of time. Keys cost dollars, and lock changes cost tens or hundreds of dollars.

    I really prefer the hotels that let you check in on the phone and get your key online too. If you’re lucky, you can pass through the entire transaction without seeing a person at all.

    I looked a bit of an idiot last hotel stay. We are traveling a lot for Milady’s hospital visits, and I applied for an airline credit card for the bonus points. The card didn’t make it to us before we left, so I asked them to put the number I got from home. He said “you’ll need this form on file when you check out and they want to swipe your card.” I didn’t know what he was talking about, since I hadn’t had anyone swipe my card for years, where I register online and just have them use the card on file when I check out.

  12. My 2016 sporty car has a 5 point eco-friendly efficiency rating system for my driving. The nifty key-fob stays in your pocket all the time, but its battery only lasts about 2 years. Many other features I like, and a few I really don’t. At least it’s not connected to the internet all the time.

    Hotel and motel security is no joke. There was one that catered to flight attendants ages ago that got one killed by being casual and careless with the keys.

    Ahh. The Psycho shower scene and the crucial Bernard Herrmann score.

    IMDB Trivia (of course)

    Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann, that he doubled the composer’s salary to $34,501. Hitchcock later said, “Thirty-three percent of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.”

    Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent, but Bernard Herrmann went ahead and scored it anyway, and upon hearing it, Hitchcock immediately changed his mind.

    Although Janet Leigh was not bothered by the filming of the famous shower scene, seeing it on film profoundly moved her. She later remarked that it made her realize how vulnerable a woman was in a shower. To the end of her life, she always took baths.

    Janet Leigh only had three weeks to work on the movie and spent the whole of one of those weeks filming the shower sequence.

    In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Sir Alfred Hitchcock said of the shower scene, “everything was so rapid that there were seventy-eight separate pieces of film in forty-five seconds.”

    Janet Leigh wore moleskin adhesive patches covering her private parts when she acted out the shower scene, so she would not really be nude and the camera would not pick up anything supposedly obscene. However, after the warm water of the shower washed off the moleskin, Sir Alfred Hitchcock still did one more take. The take was used in the finished movie.

    I had seen the film many times, but was surprised when viewing it once more to see a very out-of-focus shot of Janet’s bare chest at the end of the rapid editing, just before the slow shots of the corpse. It’s practically subliminal.

    The Coen bros. have said that filmmaking “is an editor’s medium.” 78 edits in 45 sec. drives that point home.

  13. “Psycho” is an amazing film. I was too young to see it when it came out, but I remember the big promo about how frightening the film was and the restrictions on customers not being allowed to enter the theater past a certain point. I wasn’t disappointed when I saw it in college. Tony Perkins … brrrr!

    However, like neo, sometimes I think it would be good to watch “Psycho” again, then I somehow … don’t get around to it. I was curious about the TV show, “Bates Motel,” checked it out of the library and … didn’t get around to it.

    I do recommend the biopic, “Hitchcock,” with Anthony Hopkins as Hitch and Helen Mirren as his wife. The film focuses on Hitchock at the time he decided to make “Psycho,” which is an interesting story in itself.

  15. huxley,

    Thanks for mentioning the movie about Alfred Hitchcock, Mrs. Hitchcock, and Psycho. With Mr. Hopkins and Miss Mirren, it ought to be good. I hope I can find it.

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  16. Expat,
    I once worked on documents for a smallish tech product. The warranty “card” had the complete text in about twenty languages. It ends up being printed on a single sheet so large i took to calling it the “blanket” warranty.
    Just finding a printer who could told the damn thing to the necessary small size was a huge headache.
    My suggestion that we just provides a link to our website was rejected immediately . Had to comply with various national rules. Most of which were clearly motivated by their desires to restrict imports. Brazil, I’m looking at you!

  18. Our Subaru pings us with a message after two hours of driving. At my age, I take it as a note of honor–hey, look at me: two hours w/o stopping!

  19. Its a womans world… and matriarchy is a lot worse than patriarchy!
    Not to mention that matriarchy isnt all that smart

    to see how unsmart it is

    Via the New York Post:

    Actress Jennifer Agostini, 43, and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia, 47, ran up a nearly $1,000 tab at Midtown lounge Sky Room for their friend’s birthday Saturday night before leaving around 3 a.m. Sunday, their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit says.

    But on their way out of the West 40th Street club, they got jumped and beaten to the ground by a group of 10 to 15 people who were yelling “white motherf—ers,” “dirty white b—-es” and “f—k those white b—-es and their money,” the court papers say.

    and

    Via Summit News:

    A group of young women highlighting a government study which showed 52 per cent of Parisian rape suspects were foreign nationals were attacked and labeled “fascists” by feminists during a protest in Paris.

    The feminazis resorted to physical intimidation to keep these women in their place.

    The feminists assaulted the women, stole their signs, ripped them up and then chanted, “Feminists, not fascists” and “fascists out,” as the young women were physically intimidated and forced to leave.

    -=-=-=-=-
    The incident served as a reminder of what happened in Cologne after the mass molestation and rape of around 1200 women on New Year’s Eve 2015, predominantly by men of “Arab or North African appearance,” which feminists responded to by subsequently visiting the local migrant center and handing out flowers to migrants while apologizing for “xenophobia.”

    and for advice of the nature of matriarchy, look to pink floyds MOTHER
    its quite prescient for an album as rocky horror and shock treatment are in film..

    Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?
    Mother, do you think they’ll like this song?
    Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls?
    Ooh, aah, mother, should I build the wall?

    Mother, should I run for president?
    Mother, should I trust the government?
    Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
    Ooh, aah, is it just a waste of time?

    Hush now, baby, baby, don’t you cry
    Mama’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true
    Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you
    Mama’s gonna keep you right here under her wing
    She won’t let you fly but she might let you sing
    Mama’s gonna keep baby cozy and warm

    Ooh, babe, ooh, babe, ooh, babe
    Of course mama’s gonna help build the wall

    Mother, do you think she’s good enough for me?
    Mother, do you think she’s dangerous to me?
    Mother, will she tear your little boy apart?
    Ooh, aah, mother, will she break my heart?

    Hush now, baby, baby, don’t you cry
    Mama’s gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
    Mama won’t let anyone dirty get through
    Mama’s gonna wait up ’til you get in
    Mama will always find out where you’ve been
    Mamma’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean

    Ooh, babe, ooh, babe, ooh, babe
    You’ll always be a baby to me

    Mother, did it need to be so high?

    Momma is suffocating compared to poppa

    its interesting if you can read the pre feminist stuff as to what matriarchies are like
    and the descriptions kind of align with whats going on now… but thats verboten book

  20. I’ve also noticed at hotels and newer/remodeled houses, the bath/shower controls are often intelligence tests. God knows why. My guess is that each new generation of design majors feels compelled to reinvent those wheels.

    Demolition Man – The Three Seashells
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnuOa7tDco

  21. Every business is trying to become more female friendly.. so if you see things are different, you can sure bet that they hired a woman to make it more female friendly and so on… after all women are the new less toxic masculine men, and they travel now for business a lot… (seriously)

    and since the young men are supposed to be more like women…
    they too have changed… (seriously)

    Men’s Locker Room Designers Take Pity on Naked Millennials – ny times

    Gym designers have rid locker rooms of the gnarly shower curtains, trading them in for sexy glass escape pods. They have made bathroom stalls ever more private. Comfy couch corners, Wi-Fi and lockers with built-in locks have gone from swank options to standard issue.
    [snip]
    “Old-timers, guys that are 60-plus, have no problem with a gang shower and whatever,” Mr. Dunkelberger said. “The Gen X-ers are a little bit more sensitive to what they’re spending and what they’re expecting. And the millennials, these are the special children. They expect all the amenities. They grew up in families that had Y.M.C.A. or country club memberships. They expect certain things. Privacy, they expect.”
    [snip]
    Mr. Dunkelberger believes that women pick a gym based on whether it is clean and safe. Only then do they imagine themselves in the environment. Men choose a gym more abstractly, less sensibly, more ineptly.

    [snip]
    For a city now seemingly mostly composed of subsidized young people from posh liberal arts schools who all dormed and often showered together, it’s queer, and a little sad, to see that desires for privacy and gender segregation are still entrenched in design.

    however, as i said… its the feminist forward idea of catering to women..
    and whether women like it or not, its for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    but since it cant be totally for women, its a hybrid weirdness..
    [and remember, the new kids have no idea that one can have a pinnacle of design, and without that, they have no concept that any improvements make things lesser than before – ergo cryptic shower knobs]

    Designing Hotels With the Female Business Traveller in Mind
    [doesnt specifically mention showers]

    Earlier this week we launched our new report “The Rise of Female Business Travelers” focused on learnings on how to attract and retain the loyalty of female business travelers.
    [snip]
    The Hyatt hotel lab is one example. Hyatt has dedicated a number of its properties to experimentation, trying on a number of changes to design, product configuration and services to evaluate their appeal to customers. In fact, a number of hotels, including Marriott, IHG, Swissotels and Westin have introduced labs on their properties. Outside designers and in-house product managers contribute ideas which are deployed in limited rooms and areas of the hotel so that guests and staff can test them and determine if they work. These labs have introduced product and technology innovations which benefit to female business travelers and male business travelers alike.

    Winning tactics to help your hotel appeal to solo female travellers
    and
    Female-Friendly Hospitality: How to Make Your Hotel Appeal to Women

    Women make up half the business travel sector, they are in charge of 85% of household purchasing decisions, and more female travellers are asking for a room for one. Therefore, your hotel has a lucrative opportunity if you can take advantage of this growing trend for female-focused hospitality. This of course doesn’t mean employing old stereotypes such as displaying flowers or scented candles, but rather proposing practical solutions to problems, while also ensuring that you appeal to men too.
    [snip]
    Making female guests feel at home, comfortable and safe in your hotel is essential. But, be careful to avoid cliches and tired tropes. Your hotel female-friendly drive should ideally be led and managed by women.

    If your hotel management team doesn’t contain women, it is advised to identify female professionals who can provide the consultancy that such an initiative requires. And you need to look outside your hotel to find such women.

    Why not turn to your female employees, from all levels of your hotel workforce? They know your hotel well already. In particular, client-facing staff are likely to already understand your clients’ needs and any complaints. As well as taking advantage of insider female knowledge to design and implement your female-friendly drive, you engage current employees in important company-wide decisions.

    and the hotels are getting things from women centric busineses, like bed bath beyond which sells those shower curtains.. and macys, and more… and a big part of it is that the old way is seen as the mens way, and what men found practical just cant be practical for women… (yes it can, but they dont think so)

    International Women’s Day 2017: Meet the hotel guest who’s making hotels more female-friendly

    Marcus, a journalist, decided to speak up. “I was afraid David [Israel, the operations manager] would think, ‘I’ve just spent loads of money on a hotel and some feminist didn’t think it was right,’” she says. “He was reserved when I first brought it up – I think he wasn’t sure if I was kidding or not. At the end of the tour I said, ‘Call me when there’s a Gertrude Stein suite.’ But it was an offhand comment and I didn’t really think it would happen. I came out of that hotel really thinking that I’d offended him.

    “I went back and sent him an email saying that I hadn’t meant to be rude, but it was a genuine question. I think a lot of women feel that way, that it’s too forward to be seen to complain.”
    [snip]
    So what does a woman want, when it comes to hotels? Marcus doesn’t claim to speak for her gender, but she has some thoughts.

    “So many things in hotels are obviously made with men in mind. Only a man would think that a single small bottle of ‘hair and body wash’ would be suitable for both purposes, and too many hotels have tried to overcorrect how they appeal to women by making everything pink and shiny.

    Women of Influence | Hospitality Design
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    Naumi’s Auckland Airport Hotel designs new rooms with female travellers in mind
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    With Diversity in Mind, AccorHotels Wants Men and Women to RiiSE
    “We have also established key metrics around diversity and inclusion, with the primary metric being our HeForShe commitment to have 35% women general managers by 2020,” she said.
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    Boutique Hotel Visionaries & The Women Who Own Them
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    Deadline Extended for Women in Design Nominations [hospitality and design]
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    Meet the Powerhouse Female Duo Behind the New Standard, London [standard is a hotel brand]
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

    i am already in danger of being snipped…

  22. Thanks for mentioning the movie about Alfred Hitchcock, Mrs. Hitchcock, and Psycho. With Mr. Hopkins and Miss Mirren, it ought to be good. I hope I can find it.

    Julie near Chicago: You’re welcome! “Hitchcock” came out in 2012, so I imagine you shouldn’t have trouble finding it. I borrowed a copy from the library.

  23. I have decided that the best course of action is to simply not travel. Over the course of my working life in commercial aviation, I have experienced the highs and the lows. Now, the process offers very few highs.

    Recently made two trips to watch grand son conclude his college cross country career. The first by air. What can I say? The flights flew, and we arrived on safely. That is the positive; but, the overall experience is anything but pleasant.

    The second was by car from SoCal to the Sacramento area via Cal-99 one way, and I-5 the other. It can be a depressing experience. The infrastructure is decades behind acceptable; and there is a sufficient number of clueless fools on the highway to cause concern about the future of our society.

    Well, I should note that the young woman at the HI Express in Madera who is responsible for the complimentary breakfast is exceptional. She is on the job long before the sun, and presents a very credible breakfast; along with a cheerful presence. The highways are dotted with folks who work to make our travels less onerous.
    I will also give a shout out to Perko’s Diner in Madera because they offer plain, but good, food at a reasonable price served with quintessential small town cheerfulness. Those experiences are nearly enough to offset the negatives.

    Well, wait. We also stopped for lunch at the Black Bear Diner in Arvin, as we usually do. A year and a half ago, while eating lunch, our grand daughter (a leukemia survivor) felt that she was having cardiac issues. The manager contacted 911. While we waited for the excellent First Responders, our waitress, a youngish Black woman, did everything she possibly could to comfort her, as well as grand mother. Way beyond anything we would expect. So, on this trip our waitress was, wait for it, Tiffany. This was actually our second reunion with Tiffany; and it was a grand union with many hugs between Tiffany and grand ma. Tiffany told us that she had often prayed for grand daughter; and grandma said that she would never, ever forget Tiffany’s kindness. As we left, we learned that Tiffany had comped our lunch. (I am so glad that I left a somewhat exceptional tip at the table.)

    Well, so much for my original premise that travel is always drudgery. If you can get clear of the rat race, and have the opportunity to meet real people in a more relaxed environment, it can be a rewarding experience. Fingers crossed that both grand daughters, who are flying home, will have smooth trips. Blessings to all who travel to be with loved ones this weekend.

    Happy Thanksgiving all.

    As

  25. I assumed the clear top of the shower curtain was intended to let more light into the shower, which I appreciate. I use a completely clear shower curtain in my own home, but I don’t have to worry about anyone entering the bathroom while I am showering.

  26. If one does watch Psycho again, he will notice that it is two movies. Obviously a tricky thing to eliminate your star, on which everything has been focused for 40 minutes, halfway through the script. For my money, the Janet Leigh half is a terrific John O’Hara-style story of two people struggling to handle sex, courtship, marriage and society together, in ever-so-recognizable ways. The second half is an odd Gothic bit whose notorious thrills — after that first viewing — do not equal the conflicts and drama of the first half. Watching the movie, or reflecting back on it, I often find myself trying to work out the rest of Janet Leigh’s next few weeks and months after she has apparently made her decision regarding the money during that intimate chat with Perkins after her arrival at the motel.

  27. The shower curtain is probably designed for quick swapping of the liner. They usually have a decorative outer sheet which goes all the way from the hook on the top rail down outside the tub. An inner liner then snaps on 1/4th of the way down and hangs on the inside of the tub. When the liner gets gross and needs swapping, the curtain doesn’t have to be unhooked from the rail and rehooked. Just unsnap the old and snap on the new liner. It’s quick and efficient. It also allows for the curtain to be more decorative than the old heavy-plastic hotel curtain we were used to.

  28. I’ve been a professional software developer for over 30 years, so I have some experience in designing user interfaces for people. In my opinion, user interface design for computers and consumer electronics is getting worse and worse every year.

    I have no explanation for this, except that the industries seemed to throw out everything that was learned in the 70s and 80s through a lot of hard (and successful!) work by companies like IBM, Microsoft, and later, Apple, and put a bunch of art school dropouts in charge of these things.

    And when it comes anything that runs on a TV… they are maddeningly stupidly designed. And when it comes to kiosks and stuff like that, I often find that they are designed with assumptions about the user that are in my case, with my somewhat warped and overly logical thinking, kind of confusing.

    I find a similar problem when talking to people sometimes. I’m very precise with my language, and I find people rarely seem to notice. For instance, we were watching a movie last weekend (“Thor: Ragnarok”, which is possibly the best comic book movie ever made), and I wanted to relate a story about how one of the lines in the movie was suggested by a kid visiting the set through the “Make-A-Wish” Foundation… and I asked my 19-year-old to “get ready to pause the movie”, so he walked over and paused the movie. /facepalm

  29. The Coen bros. have said that filmmaking “is an editor’s medium.” 78 edits in 45 sec. drives that point home.

    I have always felt Psycho is overrated (while being a major Hitch fan — I prefer Rope, Rear Window, and Dial M, alomg with the original The Lady Vanishes)…

    But yes, editing is king. I am put in mind of The Abyss, Cameron’s precursor to Terminator 2, where he first used the “morphing” techniques put to good use in T2.

    The Abyss is largely forgotten, because it is SOOO horribly edited. Two major flaws stick in my head 3 decades later:
    1 – early scene, amention is made of hours acclimation to the deep water high pressure environment… So they get into the chamber, then get right back out.,, no effort is made to show the passage of time through any of a dozen classic tropes
    2 – this is the one that really killed the movie… Mary Elizabeth has drowned, and Ed Harris is trying to revive her… and trying… and trying… and trying… and trying… and trying…. and trying… and… Yeah, I’ve tried to capture the scene, there. It’s supposed to be a VERY dramatic scene, yet it is so endlessly drawn out that the audience in the theater started laughing. It just goes on for FAR FAR too long.

    I will cite for you the excellent “Best…” Youtube video series by CineFix. Search youtube for “CineFix” and “best”.

    Here are a couple pertinent ones:
    https://youtu.be/bQtkbQkURCI

    https://youtu.be/f78muH3MG7M

    https://youtu.be/ORK8k8_mHyk

  30. Cinefix does far and away the best “film tech into teaching” videos i am aware of. You get a feel in most cases what is happening and a lot of examples to draw from… all in a usually short, quick form that doesn’t give you time to get bored.

  31. This shower curtain is described in the title as “Hitchcock Long Shower Curtain”. Has to be because of the clear window.

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