'Show don't Tell' in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'

'Show don't tell' in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

I recently watched Alfred Hitchcock's Neo Noir thriller Rear Window. In the film, Hitchcock uses many different techniques in this film to create a tense, dramatic experience. In this particular film he especially focuses on his often used technique of Show don't tell which basically means that instead of having characters use expositional dialogue to explain what has already happened, Hitchcock allows the audience to see and figure it out for themselves. This technique is apparent at the start when the camera shows the audience a shot of the cast, then pans up to a broken camera, then pans along many different pictures of a car crash. This allows the audience to work out that this man is a photographer, due to the many photos and camera parts in house, and was in a car crash, due to the pictures of said crash.

 Clip of the opening scene- Credit goes to: Clint Stivers on Youtube.