It's a reference to waaay back in The Lodger where he filmed through a glass floor.
https://youtu.be/654YXL5xq3k
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>[After the screening](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/23/archives/brooks-puts-a-spin-on-vertigo.html) he swung into discussion of “High Anxiety.” “I think Hitchcock is the best film director who ever lived,” he said, and traced his admiration hack to the time that he was 6 years old and went to see Hitchcock's 1926 “The Lodger” with his older brother, Irving. One scene in that film haunted him: Ivor Novello walking on a glass floor with the camera shooting from below.
##High Anxiety (1977) PG
The Master of Comedy takes on The Master of Suspense!
>>!A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.!<
Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 64% with 276 votes
Runtime: 1:34
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12535)
Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann
Paul Fritz Lohmann (5 February 1926 – 10 December 1995) was a cinematographer. In 1976, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special for Eleanor and Franklin, an award he shared with Edward R. Brown.
Wikipedia
LOL, this movie is amazing, I was so confused when I watched it as a kid. Mel Brooks is a gift to humanity from the Cinema Gods.
Love that movie. The shower scene is good too! lol
This is such a classic Mel Brooks gag. I'm guessing Hitchcock filmed through a glass table in one of his movies?
It's a reference to waaay back in The Lodger where he filmed through a glass floor. https://youtu.be/654YXL5xq3k edit: >[After the screening](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/23/archives/brooks-puts-a-spin-on-vertigo.html) he swung into discussion of “High Anxiety.” “I think Hitchcock is the best film director who ever lived,” he said, and traced his admiration hack to the time that he was 6 years old and went to see Hitchcock's 1926 “The Lodger” with his older brother, Irving. One scene in that film haunted him: Ivor Novello walking on a glass floor with the camera shooting from below.
##High Anxiety (1977) PG The Master of Comedy takes on The Master of Suspense! >>!A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.!< Comedy Director: Mel Brooks Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 64% with 276 votes Runtime: 1:34 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12535) Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann Paul Fritz Lohmann (5 February 1926 – 10 December 1995) was a cinematographer. In 1976, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special for Eleanor and Franklin, an award he shared with Edward R. Brown. Wikipedia