Famous opening shot in Hitchcock's film 'Psycho' takes place on December 11th in downtown Phoenix

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Opening scene from "Psycho."

PHOENIX — December the 11th. It's the date that appears in the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" unofficially marking the date as "Psycho" day for Phoenix.

Phoenix served as the home for Janet Leigh's Marion Crane in the movie. Marion would travel out of the city, headed to California to meet her boyfriend, only to end up meeting an unfortunate fate at the Bates Motel.

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The 1960 film opens with a shot of downtown Phoenix, the famed Westward Ho in the foreground before sweeping across the city and into the Barrister Building, or what was then the Jefferson Hotel.

According to Stephen Rebello in his book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," Hitchcock had to abandon an elaborate fly-on-the-wall visual in which a helicopter was to have descended over the city and into the motel room window.

Full link: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/december-the-11th-is-psycho-day-in-phoenix/75-145b949a-7f0f-40aa-aae7-eb9eb80c408e

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