Tossup
A shot from the point of view of one of these things interrupts a sequence that follows the legs of two men, one in white shoes and one in black, as they leave their cabs. In an interview, a director claimed that he could describe New York perfectly before moving to America because his hobby was collecting information about these objects. The sound of one of these things plays over a screaming maid who discovers a spy’s body in a J-cut from The (*) 39 Steps. A miniature shot that pans down a mountainside to one of these things covered in snow opens The Lady Vanishes. An innuendo-heavy shot of one of these things follows a match cut on the phrase “Come along Mrs. Thornhill” at the end of North by Northwest. For 10 points, what sort of thing titles a Hitchcock film in which Bruno forces a tennis star into a criss-cross murder? ■END■
ANSWER: trains [accept Strangers on a Train; prompt on a tunnel with “What’s the other thing in that shot?”]
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