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It was shot in segments but edited to look like one shot.

Back then, there were no such studio cameras to continuously record to film reels over a certain length.

doc_gunthrop on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

The film camera magazine had a capacity of up to 10 minutes, so Hitchcock could film the scene all in one shot.

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