I want it to be real so bad! Maybe someone will build one someday. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
@@pamelavance8753 I've read books on him and watched a documentary with him about the house and it hasn't been brought up. But maybe someone on here will know more.
You can build one. You can build something like that for under $1 million if you have the land. Might even be cheaper if you have some architecture skills and construction management skills.
@@Siansonea Could be half of that or even less....if you can do some of the technical work yourself or if you build it outside of the US. It's a big project....regardless.
@@Siansonea I hope I didn't discourage you from pursuing any dreams that you have have. Actually I plan to build a retirement home outside of the US. It's not this plan, but it's also a mid-century design with plenty of rooms. My budget is $200K minus the land. I will do a lot of the designs myself and manage the build.
You are a master storyteller Marina. An uncanny knack of being able to draw us into the video with your narration. Loved the background music too. Please keep them coming. Blessed Be!
Excellent work! This is an incredible analysis of the set design and color. Notice that the original stills (movie) of the day then, was filmed with (Kodak) Ektachrome, which has a rich blue bias.
You did not disappoint! I've been looking forward to this video since you had initially announced it. You are one remarkable woman. I love your attention to detail and you consistently out do yourself in each new video. The joy derived from your work is evident. I really don't mean to diminish your channel, but Mockingbird Lane is worthy of HGTV. It really ought to be a television series to gain a wider audience. I'm sure other TV and film buffs (that haven't made it to RU-vid) would love your work as much as we do. I'm getting ready to start blogging my own design work. I am not yet skilled enough to produce any CGI videos for walk-throughs or fly-overs, but you are definitely inspiring. Keep up the good work. I hope one day to see you cover Blake Carrington's mansion on the original Dynasty series and maybe even Edna's Edibles and her attached home from The Facts of Life. Dynasty though, would be a big project. But, because its based on the real life Filoli mansion in Woodside, California, the exterior and grounds can easily be reproduced. One of the major differences between Filoli and the fictional mansion is the location of the staircase and the living room/drawing room.
I was looking at old studio backlot pictures of Walt Disney Productions today. It might be too similar to the Parent Trap house because of the courtyard and Spanish Colonial architecture, but what about De La Vega Hacienda from Disney's Zorro? Another great ranch house with a massive stone fireplace and vaulted ceilings is the Ponderosa from Bonanza. There are so many homes I look forward to seeing on your channel and in your dream park.
Thank you so much for this tour! Loved it! This is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies and I love everything about it. You've got Cary Grant, Hitchcock, and Mount Rushmore all in one! I am so glad I ran across your work! Have you considered Uncle Bill's Manhattan apartment in "Family Affair"?
Another WONDERFUL job Marina - you are so talented. Thank you for sharing with us. I like how you explain why the set designers and producers are trying to get across to us - example of the name North by Northwest and the location of the stairway. That never crossed my mind. Keep up the great work - I enjoy your videos and education.
Marina, I really enjoy your work ! This is one of my favorite movies. I'd also love to see you do a depiction of Uncle Bill's apartment from "Family Affair". Everyone remembers those double front doors with the handles in the middle but did you ever notice that the master bedroom mural is the same one used for Cornel Wilde's hotel suite in the I Love Lucy episode “The Star Upstairs"? Makes sense as Family Affair was shot as Desilu. Cheers from another classic TV fan!
I love your videos about these great iconic homes from tv and movies past. There was a tv show I remember from the early 80's. The show was called Too Close for Comfort with Ted Knight. I was always curious about the floor plan of that iconic house. It always stood out in my mind over the years because the exterior was red and was located in San Francisco. I also remember the daughters on that show living in another part of the house with that crazy early 80's paint stripe color room. If you ever have time could you break down that house?
Mockingbird Ln., Mockingbird Lane that’s the Munsters I thought there was something familiar about that. Thanks for this upload you guys and look from all of us on Staten Island New York what a great look back.
This is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies and I've always admired this setting in the movie. I've always enjoyed how he brought the set into the movie. The attention to detail is unreal. It's almost as if the set is a character in the movie along with the actors. This (and your other videos) offer a new level of immersion in the show or movie. As a history buff, I like the background information you provide in the videos. I liked the house in the movie and after watching this video, I want to move into it. Great job bringing it to life..
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the tour. I love the set design in almost every Hitchcock film. I plan on doing Rear Window and Rope. Someone recently suggested Rope and I realized that I wanted to walk around in that one too.
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane I have seen a number of the tours you've done on your channel and I've enjoyed watching them. I started with all the shows that I enjoyed watching as a kid and then branched out to the other videos. I like the immersive experience they present. I'd like to see other Hitchcock sets in videos. If you do the Bates Motel, I'll watch it but only with all the with all the lights in my house turned on. 🙂
Yay! I've been waiting for this one. I fully appreciate Frank Lloyd Wright as an architect and admire his contribution to the design that is very distinct, but it's not for me usually This house, if it were actually in that environment is perfection! It should be there. N by NW is the best Hitchcock film of many great movies he made. There's something about a Hitchcock movie that you can't mistake. This house is the best of the best in any of the films IMO. Thank you!
I'm a huge midcentury and modernist house fanatic. I just found this channel searching for FLW houses. Very very cool. Just a suggestion for you(I'm selfish and adore this house). The house from Glass bottom boat, I think that's the name. The house is gone. It was called ridgetop by brian Fowler. 1261 angelo in los Angeles. Some jerk tore it down to build his Pritzker estate. I'm going to binge on this channel all night. Cant wait to some more content. Excellent work. Cheers
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane type in Frank lloyd Wright house then filter for any videos from today and it was the 1st one. I'm really enjoying these videos. I'm almost 50 so I grew up watching those shows. I you get time the house I mentioned really deserves a look. Thanks for taking a min to reach out to a fan. Godspeed
Thank you for this fascinating video imagining the unseen spaces of the Vandamm house. Terrific job, Marina! I've always loved this house since seeing the movie in 1959 when I was 12 years old. I remember asking my parents to sit through a second showing of the film just to see the house again! My dad said it looked like a Frank Lloyd Wright house and I've been hooked on Wright ever since. Kind of ironic since FLW didn't design it but Robert Boyle certainly incorporated many Wrightian elements. I understand Mr. Boyle had an architecture degree from USC before going into the movie business as an art director in the '30s. He certainly knew his stuff. There's an interesting chapter in the book "The Wrong House: the Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock" where he explains how he designed the Vandamm house specifically to serve the plot of the movie.
I got to see Frank Lloyd Wright’ Falling Water house many years ago. The house in North by Northwest is gorgeous - thank you for doing this! The glimpse you showed of the house in Imitation of Life really brought back memories of watching that movie repeatedly with my mom - we would cry and cry and cry during that final scene. I do vaguely remember that Sandra Dee’s bedroom was really pretty! Will you be doing that house too?
Definitely someday. I love it and have featured it in some of my Cinematically Inspired Design episodes. You can find all of those grouped here: www.mockingbirdlane.design/cinematically-inspired-design
I have not seen North by Northwest yet, but I will be checking it out for sure. I would like to see either the Bob Newhart Apartment with its elusive Den/guest room or the Love Boat with all its iconic sets where many a stars gave some memorable performances. As a kid I always dreamed of taking that cruise one day and seeing those places of the ship first hand. 😊❤️🚢⚓️👍
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane so many guests stayed there from Bob’s sister to Jerry, I always wanted to see it. Plus the whole apartment was of that Smart 70’s age of design. Warm colors and simple. 👍
Marina, another amazing video, and a movie buff's dream. I really appreciate your intense attention to details large and small, and the tours are well fleshed out with explanatory stills from the film. Your design in unseen rooms just feels like a natural extension of the existing set, and very organic. I'm going to share this in the Hitchcock group on Facebook, and hope it brings you more viewers. I think you should do some self promotion there as well, as there are diverse interest groups that would love your other tour videos.
Love FLlW buildings and Hitchcock movies and NxNW may be my favorite. Thanks for doing this evocative virtual tour of the Van Damme house. I have always been intrigued by it and was so disappointed when I discovered it was a movie magic house inside and out. Thanks for bringing it to Life! You have convinced me it is not very Wrightian after all. FLlW would never brace his cantilevers. Also there is not enough horizontality, compression-release or flow about the set design. Few of the details are consistent with FLlW’s vocabulary. With this said I’d love to live here. P.S. It’s Fallingwater
Thanks for your insights. Someone else pointed out that it's Fallingwater. Now I know 😊 I love this home so much. Wish we had gotten to see more of it. But I guess leaving the rest to the imagination is fun too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Thank you for putting out these videos. Love Frank Lloyd Wright's work and this was a wonderful inspiration. Also a big fan of the Parent Trap video you put together as well. If you ever want to do a Craftsman style home, I would recommend the film Zathura. The entire film takes place in a Greene and Greene inspired house. The apartment in Auntie Mame (1958) would be fun too, with all its makeovers.
I adore movies that are set in grand mansions. I love the classic home of the Van Tapp family in The Sound of Music. For me, there is no screen home that encompasses evil and darkness so well as the bizarre mansion in the 1963 movie of The Haunting, directed and produced by Robert Wise. But my all time favourite is the grand country estate in the 1940 movie Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock. I have read the book and watched the movie countless number of times. I simply fell in love with Manderley (the name of the stately home). Alfred Hitchcock was a genius in the way he evoked the disturbing presence of the dead mistress (Rebecca) through the home and its surroundings.
I love that movie and home too. I may have to create a tour of it someday. Maybe around Halloween time. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
This caught my eye because of "North by Northwest" in the title and my being a devotee of Hitchcock. I also consider NBNW one of the best movies ever made. You're right about Hitchcock's attention to every detail in his movies. Since he began his career in the silent era, he learned very early the importance of telling a story visually. The less dialog, the better (and fewer title cards!) Hence the liberal use of spectacular set designs and photography in all his work. And speaking of matte, there is a scene earlier in this movie with Cary Grant standing out on a rural road (this is the prelude to the iconic crop duster scene.) The establishing shot is taken from a high vantage (crane shot) but, since this was really shot in California and not mid-west farm country, there was a distant city visible on the horizon. So, matte to the rescue! Robert Burks, the director of photography, "erased" it with a matte! Imagine, a matte shot from a crane! But, like everything else, it worked perfectly! Anyway, thanks for posting this!
WOW- the detail is excellent & beautiful ‼️If I were designing (which I’m not because I’m not creative with computers😆), I’d blend a little bit more Cherokee red color into Eve’s brown walls & blend a cement gray color into the main level walls (to match the colors in the film), pick travertine as the “creamy colored marble” in the bathroom, & replace the kitchen’s green granite with that same travertine (for “tasteful consistency”) - or - use stainless or Carrara since those surfaces were more of that era).
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I have made many other homes too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Wonderful! Now do Gene Tierney's 'Laura" set, all of her floorplan, the living room with the fireplace with her portrait over it, her bedroom, bath, kitchen, etc.
Another triumph by Marina! Thanks so much for doing countless hours of research and then translating that into videographic walkthroughs for us. For future projects, would you consider doing Jessica's home from Murder, She Wrote?
What a great channel I just discovered! This is by far one of my most favorite movies and as a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, I’ve always loved this movie set. A great tour. I think another tour I’d really like to take is through the TV home of Jonathan & Jennifer Hart from Hart to Hart. That could be a very rich video tour you could give. Thanks!
Excellent work. Having seen the film, but not memorized it :), do any scenes in the home take place in the daytime with full sunlight? I would love to see the light coming through the windows. I see the emerging light over the mountains, but is that definitely the orientation? The stone work is amazing, and also very convenient for climbing. Staying with the theme; interiors of the Bates Motel and home would also be amazing...
I do plan on doing the Bates motel and the house on the hill. I visited them 2 years ago and took plenty of pics. We only saw the Vandamm home at night. That was partly due to the fact that Hitchcock wanted the matte paintings of the exterior to look more realistic. I made a tour of Eve's room in daylight. Perhaps I'll put that on my website, along with the main floor in daylight.
Thank you for doing this house! I always thought it was so unique. You asked for more suggestions for movie homes...would you do Bunny Watson's apartment from the movie Desk Set? I always thought it looked so warm and cozy for a single lady as the character was in the movie (Katharine Hepburn played her).
it would be amazing to see the house (mansion) in Missouri from the movie: "Gone Girl" (2015). It really resembles some of the Frank Lloyd Wright's features for his house projects. I would really love to live in that kind of a house one day!
Hello Marina. There are several films for me, in which the most important dimensions of the film- are the sets, like "N. By N.W.," as well as "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and The Parent Trap." THANK YOU FOR THOSE! Now, please do check out Irene Janson's (Lauren Bacall) home in "Dark Passage." Set in San Francisco, the place is very cozy and sophisticated, with a glorious modernist fireplace, metal staircase, modernist furniture- and on and on. Not to mention the exterior is the Molloch Building. Would LOVE to see that one. Thank you!
I hadn't thought about what the exterior must look like. Interesting idea. Glad you liked this. I have made many other homes too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane I will look forward to it. With the world and especially our country in such a crazy state these days, it gives me great comfort to go back and view a simpler time.
Esther Smith's house from Meet Me in St. Louis. Waldo Lydecker, Anne Tredwell and Laura Hunt's apartments from Laura. Emily Gilmore's house. Tracy Lord's house from Philadelphia Story (I've been to the real house.)
Awesome. What software are you using? Even without a lot of rendering it feel like a VR headset. Great camera moves. We have the Darwin House here in Buffalo. I haven't been inside tho. I haven't seen this whole movie yet, though I probably saw some of when I was a kid. Last time I researched it was because of the matte paintings, and probably thought the Production Designer was Syd Mead. Great informative video. Also, very inspiring culturally, it actually made me considering traveling for once. Collecting rare art would be fun. I really enjoyed the references to layout, blue prints and color distribution. Phenomenal Job. Thanks.
You're in luck. I've already done that home. It was early on when I was first learning the software, so I'm going to redo it, hopefully this coming December. This time I want to do more of the home. I only did the main room. I want to add the den and kitchen. You can see that and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Hi Marina. Recently found your channel (as I have an interest in interior design that feels more personal and unique). I've been following the videos centered around using cinematic techniques to construct a home/space that feels right (although I'm already stuck on the gathering info stage and trying to break through to the next one.) I notice that you do a lot of spaces based on older films. You don't tend to examine homes that take place in the 70s or 80s much. From a design point of view, may I ask why that is? Do you feel that the design during those times were not timeless enough? Maybe too mass produced and nothing that feels personal? The colors and decor too trendy? Is there anything about those eras that could be "salvaged?" Clearly you have a strong affinity to older classic cinema. I'm 34 and while I happen to have an interest in older movies (I watched TCM quite a lot at some point) at times it does feel like I can't relate to everything because of the generational gap. Do you think you'll use any more modern examples? I'm just curious as to your thoughts on the direction of design at this stage and time and how it may lack timelessness, story and mood. I think your approach is refreshing and unique and it's been eye opening for me to go about it without copying images off of Pinterest that you cannot relate with. I think it would be cool to eventually feature viewers spaces in real life that have been transformed using your technique. :)
Great questions. I am definitely drawn to the movies from the 50s and 60s, but I feature [and love] a lot of the newer movie homes too - 90s to now. But, you're right, I have used many movie homes from the 70s and 80s. It was nothing overt, which has me curious. I need to to look up some movie homes from those 2 decades. I'm sure there's a lot to love there.
Darn, I wish you had used Herrmann's amazing score for the background music. It would have elevated this video into the sublime. Oh well, it's still a great video.
Was this the same house that they used in a Summer Pl., Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, and Sandra dee I’d love to know thanks for this upload and for all the information love from all of us on Staten Island, New York
@@DeborahManiscalco I have made many other homes, too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Oh another thing there's a movie by Jerry Lewis called Hook line sinker they use the same set as Bewitched also there's a Bob Hope movie called bachelor in Paradise it's a little slice of what Americana was in mid-century modern design in first world living enjoy oh and Happy Thanksgiving
The real estate industry has changed our vocabulary so that a cold, neutral "house" is now a warm-and-fuzzy "home." The use of "home" is especially ironic here, since it's just a set.
You're in luck. I've already done that home. You can see that and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
I remember as a child visiting Mt Rushmore when the Visitor Center looked exactly as it does in this film. Didn’t visit again until the 1990s after most of the upgrades. Then again a couple of years ago, such a change!!
Oh! I'm so glad you commented because that's something I'd been wondering- if the visitor's center actually looked like that back then. Thanks. It's so cool, it would be worth a tour on its own. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane On the same day we visited Mt Rushmore, the Chief Crazy Horse carving (much bigger than Mt Rushmore) was just beginning and you could get a feel for the outline. The only thing that you could deem as a visitor center back then was a dinky log cabin at the entrance that had brochures and a few postcards. Now that log cabin is long gone and they have the most beautiful visitor center/learning center that gives such great honor to traditions of the tribe, Ogalala Lakota, and other historic findings and amazingly beautiful artwork. It’s a great place to learn a lot!
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane It actually was just like that! I was there when I was only 5 or 6. That would be 1967-68. I remember it so clearly that it's kind of freaky. I can still go back to how it felt to view the monument. Down to the breeze that went through your hair! No matter how long you stood there, it was so impressive that you couldn't believe it was actually there. I can remember being in the visitor center too! I believe my mom bought a napkin holder there, but I have no idea where that is now. When I saw the movie, I instantly recognized it.
wow - one of my favorite movies and one of the greatest movie homes ever :) thanks for interpreting the areas of the home the viewer never actually got to see - you did yourself proud marina! :)
Thank you for sharing with us, I enjoy watching your tours of these old classics houses. I just watched North by Northwest a few weeks ago, one of my favorite Cary Grant's movies and the house is mind blowing.
Marina, That was fantastic, everything one could hope for. Three suggestions for you, if I may, Amos Burke’s home from the 1963 version of “ Burke’s Law” . Steve McQueen’s apartment in Bullitt. The Baxter House from Hazel. Thanks
Wonderful presentation! It's interesting how Hitchcock completely dismissed reality that a house and the surrounding land could actually exist above the monuments. I can picture him saying something like, "Oh, so what! Let's do it anyway!" I think the Walton's house would be an excellent topic. The show spent so much time in every room that the detail would be easily captured.
Funny you should mention The Waltons. That's the next one up. I can picture Hitchcock saying that. 😅 You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
This is one of my favorite houses from one of my favorite movies! You did a fantastic job! I’m trained as an architect and also love to figure out how homes on the screen could actually work. One that has stumped me is Kate and Allie’s apartment. I’d love to see you tackle it!
Glad you enjoyed the tour. Sounds like we share a similar passion. I have a degree in architecture and an obsession in set design. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
You didn’t mention in your marvelous narration what several people alluded to in their comments - that there are no homes at all behind the monument - not for many, many miles. In fact, the rock formation upon which the busts were created drops off just behind the heads, with nothing but barren, rocky, unpopulated ground beyond them. Unlike the movie depiction, there is no plateau above and behind the monument upon which any house of any sort could be built, let alone one of such grandeur. But, as you’ve often mentioned, we just have to suspend our disbelief and go along with the storyline. Lovely tour.
I love this house and the movie. You did an amazing job. A couple weeks ago, I watched and old George Burns and Brooke Shields movie from 1979 called Just You and Me, Kid and I fell in love with George Burns home. There is an amazing wrap-around staircase that is open underneath and I really loved how they utilized that space, but the whole downstairs area was really nice. The movie itself was cute and it's on youtube.
Marina, you've got to do Walt Disney's office! They have it recreated at the studios, and it's amazing - I've been there! Most of the Disneyland TV shows were filmed with him at his desk.
The Waltons, please. Judy Norton seems approachable on RU-vid. I wonder if she’d want to consult or somehow participate. Thank you for this fantastic tour. Now I want to rewatch the movie.
Imagine a home not dominated by huge flat screens tvs? You simply rolled the portable it into the room watched your show and then removed it. Conversation was the theme of the living room and home vs everyone plugged in.
I love this observation! So true. And we wonder why people are so depressed all the time. The more we are connected electronically, the more disconnected we become from people.
It's interesting that there is no artwork displayed on any of those stone walls, leaving us the impression that they are as austere and expansive as the mountains they come from. They are the art. We enter their space, on their terms, cool and indifferent. They do not conform to human need, as reflected in the owners persona.
I've never seen NXNW but this is a great house! On the other end of the spectrum, I've bingeing "3rd Rock From The Sun" lately and their attic apartment seems to be a completely bonkers layout! I'd love to see you make sense of it.
North by Northwest is one of my favourite films and it was so interesting to go around that unique house. Next time I watch this film I will see the house differently. I think it is a characteristic of Hitchcock that he went to such length to have the house absolutely perfect for a scene which lasted only a short time.
well if that ain't just the sexiest house ever...mid century modern raised to level 11. that's got to be the best job, creating beautiful spaces like that, for movies...can you imagine? Thx Marina, for visualizing and creating it for us to fall in love with.
Thank you so much for making this video and re-creating this house - I was always awestruck by this house (and the movie itself!)...I would love to live in a house like this. The scene where Roger Thornhill's reflection shows in the TV is really classic!
Yes! Great scene. Great movie and fabulous set design. Glad you liked the tour. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Thanks Marina! Great tour. Great house design. I love this movie. And it's got such a great house in there. Have you read THE DARKER SIDE OF GENIUS by Donald Spoto? Great Hitchcock biography. Read it when it came out. I need to check out THE ART OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK by same.
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