The Birds

Daphne Du Maurier & Evan Hunter 1963

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

"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

	as the light changes and people begin to cross. In the crowd 
	walking the other way, a man turns to look up at the wheeling 
	gulls in the sky overhead. The CAMERA LOCATES:

	MED. SHOT - MELANIE DANIELS

	in the crowd of pedestrians, approaching Davidson's Pet Shop.  
	She is a young woman in her mid-twenties, sleekly groomed, 
	exquisitely dressed, though hatless. She walks with the quick 
	sureness of the city dweller, a purposefulness in her stride, 
	a mischievous grin on her face. She continues toward the 
	front door of a pet shop and enters.

	INT. BIRD SHOP - ME