[Movie Script]Birds, The

                                  "THE BIRDS"



by
Evan Hunter
Based on the novel "Birds"
By
Daphne Du Maurier
FINAL DRAFT 2nd Revision March 2, 1962




	FADE IN:



	FULL SHOT - GRANT STREET - SAN FRANCISCO - DAY



It is mid-afternoon, and there is a tempo and pace to the

people walking, the doorman HOOTING for taxicabs, the

policemen directing traffic.
	PAN SHOT - PEDESTRIANS



waiting at street corner for light to change.
	CLOSE SHOT - MAN



at the end of line of pedestrians. He is looking up at the

sky.
	TWO SHOT - MAN AND WOMAN NEXT TO HIM



as she follows his gaze upward.
	LONG SHOT - THE SKY



with hundreds of gulls in it, wheeling.
	MED. SHOT - THE STREET CORNER


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