Mike, At the time Torn Curtain was made, the Cold War made it impossible to shoot in the actual Museen zu Berlin, a collection of museums on an island, which was located in East Berlin. The specific museum is actually known as The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery). Consequently, the museum sequence in Torn Curtain was done largely with a series of matte paintings by Albert Whitlock that was based upon photographs of the museum. The process is described and illustrated in "The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting" by Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron. If the sculpture actually exists, it can likely be found in the complete catalogue of the museum's sculpture (Nationalgalerie Berlin: Bestandskatalog Skulpturen. E.A. Seemann Verlag, 2006). Marshall Deutelbaum -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frank, Michael Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:04 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] hitchcock trivia query in TORN CURTAIN there's a scene in what the film identifies as the "museen zu berlin" [perhaps a real place, perhaps not] and in that scene hitchcock twice frames his shots so that our view is dominated by a statue that is in the center foreground and takes up well over half the frame . . . if anyone has any info about this, or even educated guesses, i'd be very glad to hear them many thanks mike ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]