Before Computers (Original Psycho Screenplay) : Before Google Reflection

For the Before google assignment I knew I wanted to try and find something film related and since it is Halloween I figured Alfred Hitchcock would be a good subject. Unfortunately I could not find any interesting archival documents at Emory. there are two Hitchcock films on 16mm, but that was not very exciting to me. I decided to see if I could find something more interesting at other universities. Despite being basically the opposite of what this project was trying to promote I googled Alfred Hitchcock Archival documents and to my wonder I discovered that the University of Iowa Libraries archive has tons and tons of scripts and documents from all sorts of movies and TV shows. As I was skimming the list of what some of the boxes in this collection hold I found buried deep down in one of their collections (box five to be exact is the revises 1959 screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Unfortunately, this is in Iowa and not Georgia so the possibility of me physically going and seeing this document is virtually nonexistent, however ,the fact that I could potentially go to this archive one day and physically hold the original screen play is something that is far more exciting to me then just seeing a scared copy of the final screen play that I could probably google and pull up right now.

This assignment has lead me to realize the importance and significance of something that is not online. Even though I was unable to actually go and physically see this script it is far more exciting to me to think I could see with my own eyes the same script that Hitchcock himself looked over while in preproduction of Psycho. There is something to be said about the tangible and its ability to invoke and provide more meaning then a digital copy.

Here is the link to the page with all the information about the entire collection that the screenplay for Psycho is but just a tiny addition. http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0124