The girl looking behind her in the center of this photo, taken during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," is my sister Valerie. She and the other kids are running from a flock of angry crows, to be added later with optical effects. The street the kids are running on is in Bodega, California, but the close-ups were filmed in front of a blue screen at Universal Studios. In one shot, Valerie has a mechanical crow attached to her sweater which she made flap its wings by pressing a button hidden in her clothing. I wasn't allowed to see the movie when it came out because I was four and it was too scary for me.
Pamelyn Ferdin
Facebook post, February 16, 2021
