"one of them (Raymond Burr) has murdered his wife. Stewart eventually manages to convince his policeman buddy (Wendell Corey) and his girlfriend (Kelly). As with ""Lifeboat"" and ""Rope"", the principal characters are depicted in confined or cramped quarters, in this case Stewart's studio apartment. Hitchcock uses close-ups of Stewart's face to show his character's reactions, ""from the comic voyeurism directed at his neighbours to his helpless terror watching Kelly and Burr in the villain's apartment"". From 1955 to 1965, Hitchcock was the host of the television series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". With his droll delivery, gallows humour and iconic image, the"
"unknown young director to make his debut: Alfred Hitchcock. Hicks directed ""Sleeping Partners"" (1930) and ""Glamour"" (1931). In addition, over a dozen films were made either from his plays or his scripts, and he starred in about twenty films, many with his wife. One of his early films was ""Money for Nothing"" (1932) In 1931, he was awarded the Legion of Honour for his promotion of French drama on the English stage. In 1934, he had taken over Daly's Theatre in London, where he produced and appeared in a series of successful plays including ""Vintage Wine"" that he and Ashley"
"of the first movies to use subtractive color was a silent film titled ""Cupid Angling"" (1918). In 1932, Walt Disney made the first film to use a red, green and blue color process (Technicolor), ""Flowers and Trees"". Three years later, the first feature length movie to be filmed entirely in 3-color Technicolor was ""Becky Sharp"". The first color features were made in the 1910s. The very first was ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" (1912). In 1917, Technicolor made their first film, a two-color additive film entitled ""The Gulf Between"" (1917), ""The Gulf Between"" was also the first color"
"title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company. He made his directorial debut with the silent film ""The Pleasure Garden"" (1925). His first successful film, """" (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, ""Blackmail"", was the first British """". Two of his 1930s thrillers, ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of"
"coined the term ""documentary"" to describe a non-fiction film in 1926. Ranked by many as the best British filmmaker, Hitchcock's first thriller, """" (1926), helped shape the thriller genre in film, while his 1929 film, ""Blackmail"", is often regarded as the first British sound feature film. ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) features a signature Hitchcock cameo, and established the quintessential English 'Hitchcock blonde' Madeleine Carroll as the template for his succession of ice cold and elegant leading ladies. Alexander Korda's ""The Private Life of Henry VIII"" (1933), was the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best"
"documentary films ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" (also known as ""The Durbar at Delhi"", 1912), and the notable recovery of £750,000 worth of gold and silver bullion from the wreck of P&O's SS ""Oceana"" in the Strait of Dover (1912). ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" and the dramas ""The World, the Flesh and the Devil"" (1914), and ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"" (1914) were the first three feature films made in colour. These latter two features were also among the last films released by Kinemacolor. Kinemacolor enjoyed the most commercial success in the UK where, between 1909 and"
"Hitchcock Blonde Hitchcock Blonde is a play by British playwright Terry Johnson which debuted in April 2003 in London and later moved to London's West End. It was also staged in the United States. The play takes place in three time periods: 1919, when a short film featuring a blonde woman was shot which later fascinated Alfred Hitchcock; 1960, during the filming of Hitchcock's classic ""Psycho""; and 1999, when a media studies professor and one of his students, another blonde woman, discover the 1919 film and re-examine Hitchcock's work through its lens. The play premiered in April 2003 at the"
"(distributed through Warner Brothers Pictures). The first, ""Under Capricorn"" (released in 1949), in which he played opposite Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, was shot mostly in London but had final retakes and overdubs filmed in Hollywood. It was one of Hitchcock's few flops. His second film for Hitchcock was the more popular ""Stage Fright"" (released in 1950), also filmed in London, with Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman. Thirteen years later, in 1963, Wilding starred in an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode titled ""Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans"". Wilcox used him in a film without Neagle, ""Into the Blue"" (1950) and the"
"wrote in 1982: ""The Hitchcock touch had four hands, and two were Alma's."" Hitchcock began work on his tenth film, ""Blackmail"" (1929), when its production company, British International Pictures (BIP), converted its Elstree studios to sound. The film was the first British """"; it followed the first American sound feature film, ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927). ""Blackmail"" began the Hitchcock tradition of using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences, with the climax taking place on the dome of the British Museum. It also features one of his longest cameo appearances, which shows him being bothered by a small boy"
"Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English filmmaker and director. Popularly known as the ""Master of Suspense"" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s, most of which are now lost. His directorial debut was the 1925 release ""The Pleasure Garden"". Hitchcock followed this with """", his first commercial and critical success. It featured many of the thematic elements his films would be known for such as an innocent man on"
"these islands and given the age its character"". In June 2013 nine restored versions of Hitchcock's early silent films, including ""The Pleasure Garden"" (1925), were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre; known as ""The Hitchcock 9"", the travelling tribute was organised by the British Film Institute. The Alfred Hitchcock Collection is housed at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California. It includes home movies, 16 mm film shot on the set of ""Blackmail"" (1929) and ""Frenzy"" (1972), and the earliest known colour footage of Hitchcock. The Academy Film Archive preserves many of his home movies. The Alfred"
"comic characters. Powell made his film début as a ""comic English tourist"" in ""The Magician"" (1926). Returning to England in 1928, Powell worked at a diverse series of jobs for various filmmakers including as a stills photographer on Alfred Hitchcock's silent film ""Champagne"" (1928). He also signed on in a similar role on Hitchcock's first ""talkie"", ""Blackmail"" (1929). In his autobiography, Powell claims he suggested the ending in the British Museum which was the first of Hitchcock's ""monumental"" climaxes to his films. Powell and Hitchcock remained friends for the remainder of Hitchcock's life. After scriptwriting on two productions, Powell entered"
"""Revival of a Realist"", 5 February 2004 Rodney Ackland's first contact with Alfred Hitchcock was as a supporting actor in the 1931 screen version of John Galsworthy's play ""The Skin Game"". But a year later Hitchcock recognised his potential as a screenwriter, collaborating with him on the second film adaptation of J Jefferson Farjeon's London fog-bound thriller ""Number Seventeen"" starring Leon M Lion. Ackland co-wrote the popular British film ""Bank Holiday"" (1938), contributed additional dialogue to ""Young Man's Fancy"" (1940), and made some uncredited contributions to 1941's ""Dangerous Moonlight"" and 1944's ""Love Story"". His screenplay for ""Hatter's Castle"" in 1941,"
"1980, Hitchcock received a knighthood. Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English filmmaker and director. Popularly known as the ""Master of Suspense"" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s, most of which are now lost. His directorial debut was the 1925 release ""The Pleasure Garden"". Hitchcock followed this with """", his first commercial and critical success. It featured many of the thematic elements his films would be known for such"
"a young Alfred Hitchcock, titled ""Elstree Calling"", a musical variety review that answered Paul Whiteman's music review feature film of the same year, ""King of Jazz"", with both films featuring early color sequences. Elstree was the movie and radio studio complex where many famous films and radio shows were produced in the early days of British media entertainment. A variety of impressive older musical and comedic vaudeville acts and new talent were featured each of the two films. Brown's appearances in ""Elstree Calling"" won favorable audiences reviews at the time. His third appearance in the film was the most impressive,"
"Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted to the screen by Hume Cronyn. This was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor, and like the preceding color film ""Rope"" (1948), it also featured 10-minute takes. The film is set in colonial Sydney, New South Wales, Australia during"
"finance from Charles Urban, he went on to develop the Lee-Turner Process, which had been acquired by Urban following the death of Edward Raymond Turner in 1903, into the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor. Smith proved the new process, which abandoned the three-colour approach of Edward Turner in favour of a two-colour (red-green) process, with early test films such as ""Tartans of Scottish Clans"" (1906) and ""Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs"" (1908) before giving a trade demonstration of ""A Visit to the Seaside"" (1908) on 1 May 1908, followed by public demonstration from early 1909 as far afield as"
"blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see ""Family Plot""). The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him."
"Number 13 (film) In 1922, Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody). Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger were to star as husband and wife. The story was about low-income residents of a building, financed by The Peabody Trust, founded by American banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody, to offer affordable housing to needy Londoners. However, the film's budget fell apart, and it was pulled from production after only a handful of scenes were shot. Hitchcock rarely, if ever, spoke about his first directing project, until his biographer, Donald Spoto, asked"
"Kinemacolor two-colour additive colour process. Originally, Joan Morgan had been considered for the part of Cedric Erroll as Lord Fauntleroy, before 13-year old Gerald Royston was given the role. Born in 1901 and the younger brother of Roy Royston, the British child actor appeared in silent films from 1913 to 1915. His casting in ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"" was one of the earliest starring roles for a child actor in a feature-length film. An advertisement in the cinema trade journal ""Bioscope"" cited English writer Effie Albanesi's praise of the film. She called it ""excellent"" and commended the film's adaptation of Burnett's"
"J. Arthur Rank Organisation's ""Plain Sailing"" in 1956. It was used in Disney films ""The Parent Trap"", ""Mary Poppins"" and ""Bedknobs and Broomsticks"". It was also used for the Ray Harryhausen film ""Mysterious Island"", produced by Columbia Pictures. Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (produced by Universal Studios) used yellow screen, under the direction of Disney animator Ub Iwerks, in traveling matte shots with birds' rapidly fluttering wings. The process was used in the 1970s for scenes in ""Island at the Top of the World"", ""Gus"", ""The Apple Dumpling Gang"", ""Freaky Friday"", ""Escape to Witch Mountain"", ""Pete's Dragon"" and ""The Black Hole""."
"first color feature made in Hollywood, and the first Technicolor color feature anywhere that did not require a special projector to be shown. The film premiered on 26 November 1922 at the Rialto Theatre in New York City, and went into general release on 22 January 1923. When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married ""Chinese fashion"". Carver promises to take her with him when he returns"
"Mountain Eagle"" (1926), released in the United States as ""Fear o' God"". The film is lost; Hitchcock called it ""a very bad movie"". Hitchcock's luck changed with his first thriller, """" (1927), about the hunt for a serial killer who, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays. A landlady suspects that her lodger is the killer, but he turns out to be innocent. To convey that footsteps were being heard from an upper floor, Hitchcock had a glass floor made so that the audience could see the"
"The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. Based on the novel ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ""Who Is He?"" co-written by Belloc Lowndes, the film is about the hunt for a ""Jack the Ripper""-like serial killer in London. A young blonde woman,"
"the world"". In 1992, the British Film Institute released its first ""Missing Presumed Lost"" list of films, and in January 2010 they announced that they had begun actively searching for some 75 missing films, including ""The Mountain Eagle""; ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1914), which features the first screen appearance of the Sherlock Holmes character; ""The First Men in the Moon"" (1919), which is the first H. G. Wells-adapted science-fiction; and Dinah Shurey's ""The Last Post"" (1929). The Mountain Eagle The Mountain Eagle is a 1926 British silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director, following ""The Pleasure Garden"". The film,"
"the run. It also featured the first of his famous cameo appearances. Two years later he directed ""Blackmail"" (1929) which was his first sound film. In 1935 Hitchcock directed ""The 39 Steps"". Three years later he directed ""The Lady Vanishes,"" starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Hitchcock's British films – and many of his early American ones – are often mistakenly believed to be in the public domain. In fact, all of his films are under copyright in the US and UK. Nonetheless, bootlegs of his work continue to be widely disseminated. In 1940, Hitchcock transitioned to Hollywood productions, the"
"screen in ""Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion"" (1950). The following year they made ""Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man"" (1951); then ""Comin' Round the Mountain"" (1952), a hillbilly comedy. Their first color film, ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1952), was made independent of Universal, and distributed by Warner Bros. After making ""Lost in Alaska"" (1952) at Universal, they made a second independent color movie, ""Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"" (1953) with Charles Laughton, that was also distributed by Warner Bros. At Universal they did ""Abbott and Costello Go to Mars"" (1953) and ""Abbott and Costello Meet Dr."
"associated with violent behavior. In ""The Lodger"" and ""Psycho"", this association is the whole basis of the film. Biographers have noted how Hitchcock continued to challenge film censorship throughout his career, until he was allowed to show nudity in ""Frenzy"". Hitchcock had a dramatic preference for blonde women, stating that the audience would be more suspicious of a brunette. Many of these blondes were of the Grace Kelly variety: perfect, aloof ice goddesses, who also have a hidden red-hot inner fire. In ""Vertigo"" James Stewart forces a woman to dye her hair blonde. One of Hitchcock's earliest films, """" (1927),"
"film ""M"" (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940), the Oscar-winning ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite. Notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include ""The Spiral Staircase"" (1946) and ""Sorry, Wrong Number"" (1948). In the late 1940s, Hitchcock added Technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales. Hitchcock's first Technicolor film was ""Rope"" (1948). He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic"
"Pictures in 1937. 1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as ""The Wizard of Oz"" and ""Gone with The Wind"". Previously, it was believed that color films were first projected in 1909 at the Palace Theatre in London (the main problem with the color being that the technique, created by George Smith, (Kinemacolor) only used two colors: green and red, which were mixed additively). But in fact, it was in 1901 when the first color film in history was created. This untitled film was directed by photographer Edward Raymond Turner and his patron Frederick Marshall Lee. The"
"Number Seventeen Number Seventeen is a 1932 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter. After being available only in poor-quality prints for decades, the film"
"a backdrop for their plots. In 1937 Ardeshir Irani, of ""Alam Ara"" fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, ""Kisan Kanya"". The next year, he made another colour film, a version of ""Mother India"". However, colour did not become a popular feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the staple fare at the cinema. Following India's independence, the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s is regarded by film historians as the ""Golden Age"" of Hindi cinema. Defining key figures during this time included Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan,"
"to pursue his interest in photography and found a job as a film salesman. It was then he began to explore an art form that was still in its infancy – cinematography. In 1937, Rattana shot his first film, a short called ""Tang"", about a young Thai girl. ""Tang"" won the Amateur Cine Competition in Glasgow, Scotland and Rattana was given the Alfred Hitchcock award. He made another short called ""White Boat"" in 1939 and it was shown at the New York World Festival. Rattana continued his work in film sales, but he was given his big break into filmmaking"