Originally published at: That time when ferocious flocks of seabirds attacked people, inspiring Hitchcock's The Birds | Boing Boing
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The History Guy had a video on this recently, according to a report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Hitchcock wasn’t directly inspired by the event, the movie is based on a short story from 1957 and the film was already in production by the time the event occurred.
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I remember going to see “The Birds” at the Opera House in downtown Boston across the street from the Jordan Marsh department store. Right after the show thousands of starlings were perched on every windowsill of that store. Creeped me right the hell out.
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If I had a photograph of this, or something to remind me.
I wouldn’t spend my life just wishing…
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Domoic acid poisoning: “permanent loss of short-term memory (a condition known as Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)”.
That’s…a new one.
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