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Elstree Calling (1930)

Name: Elstree Calling
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: comedy film, musical film
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 4.9

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Claude Friese-Greene · Ratio Academy ratio · 86 min

How it was made

Hitchcock, then under contract to British International Pictures, contributed the film's comic linking segments about a man repeatedly failing to tune in the revue on his television set.
Four sequences in the film were coloured using the Pathécolor process, which used stencils to tint selected areas of the black-and-white prints, imitating Hollywood's contemporary use of Technicolor.
The film's linking narrative, built around a broadcast television revue, predates the BBC's regular television transmissions by roughly six years, making it one of the earliest films to directly reference television.

Elsewhere

All Alfred Hitchcock films

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939
The Lady Vanishes — 1939

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