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''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'' explored the then very fashionable [[subject]] of [[psychoanalysis]] and featured a [[dream]] sequence which was designed by [[Salvador Dalí]]. The actual dream sequence in the film was considerably cut from the original planned [[scene]] that was to run for some minutes but proved too disturbing for the finished film.
''[[Notorious]]'' (1946) marked Hitchcock's first film as a producer as well as director. As Selznick failed to see [[The Subject|the subject]]'s potential, he allowed Hitchcock to make the film for [[RKO]]. From this point on, Hitchcock would produce his own films, giving him a far greater degree of [[freedom]] to pursue the projects that interested him. Starring [[Ingrid Bergman]] and Hitchcock regular [[Cary Grant]], and featuring a plot about [[Nazis]], uranium, and South America, ''[[Notorious]]'' was a huge box office success and has remained one of Hitchcock's most acclaimed films. Its inventive use of suspense and props briefly led to Hitchcock [[being]] under surveillance by the [[CIA]] due to his use of [[uranium]] as a plot device.
''[[Alfred Hitchcock's Rope|Rope]]'' (his first color film) came next in [[1948]]. Here Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined [[environment]], as he had done earlier with ''[[Lifeboat (film)|Lifeboat]]''. He also experimented with exceptionally long takes — up to ten minutes (see [[Alfred Hitchcock#Themes and devices|Themes and devices]]). Featuring [[James Stewart (actor)|James Stewart]] in the leading role, ''Rope'' was the first of an eventual four films Stewart would make for Hitchcock. Based on the [[Leopold and Loeb]] [[case]] of the 1920s, ''Rope'' is also among the earliest openly gay-themed films to emerge from the [[Hays Office]]–controlled Hollywood studio era.
In ''Spellbound'' two unprecedented point-of-view shots were achieved by constructing a large wooden hand (which would appear to belong to the character whose point of view the camera took) and outsized props for it to hold: a bucket-sized glass of milk and a large wooden gun. For added novelty and impact, the climactic gunshot was hand-colored red on some copies of the black-and-white print of the film.
''Rope'' (1948) was another technical challenge: a film that appears to have been shot entirely in a single take. The film was actually shot in eight takes of approximately 10 minutes each, which was the amount of film that would fit in a single camera reel; the transitions between reels were hidden by having a dark object fill the entire [[screen]] for a moment. Hitchcock used those points to hide [[The Cut|the cut]], and began the next take with the camera in the same place.
His 1958 film ''Vertigo'' contains a camera trick that has been imitated and re-used so many [[times]] by filmmakers, it has become known as the [[Hitchcock zoom]].
