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We’ve put together a list of the most significant film techniques that were used by Alfred Hitchcock. This information comes out of many books and interviews from the man himself and his been simplified for your consideration.

This page is mostly for filmmakers who are sad and depressed because their movie is so average that nobody will watch it. Stop crying and pay attention. What is written here will save your career (at least until tomorrow morning.) However there is no cure for a bad producer – there may be no help for you!

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The only watch that’s also a weapon- it shoots BBs, dried peas, popcorn kernels, lentils and more up to 8 feet accross the room! This stainless steel watch will be the envy of the classroom or the meeting room. Use it to “wake-up” those sleepy headed co-workers and classmates. When they look around to see who’s been pelting them with spitballs, you’ll just be casually checking the time.

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Meet Eclyse – an animal that looks like it was assembled in one of those dodgy garages where they weld halves of two stolen cars together.

But Eclyse isn’t the result of some crazed Doctor Dolittle with a god complex. It’s a zorse – a zebra/horse hybrid, born on a ranch in Germany. And she’s the product of a holiday romance.

While most zorses have stripes across their whole body, Eclyse only has two blocks of stripes – on her face and her rear.

The pure white areas she gets from her mother, a horse called Eclipse. Eclipse’s owners sent her to a ranch in Italy for a while – where she met a rugged, handsome zebra called Ulysses.

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I find four-leaf clovers frequently, even when not explicitly looking. Many find this “gift” extraordinary, and even though this mutation is reported to only occur once in about 10,000 clovers, getting lucky isn’t as hard as one would think.

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