During the last seconds of the slow zoom out from Marion's head laying lifeless on the bathroom floor, her throat moves as she gulps involuntarily. This disproves the common claim that a freeze frame or photo was used for this shot. In the next moment Janet Leigh blinked, so a clip of the shower head was inserted to cover the mistake. This breaks up the continuous shot that was intended: the zoom out from Marion's face, the pan away to the paper with the money hidden inside, then the pan to the Bates house with Norman coming back down the steps. With the difficulty of combining the three different sets seamlessly, the scene was never successfully re-shot.

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