Elstree Calling

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Elstree Calling
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Andre Charlot
Jack Hulbert
Paul Murray
Written by Adrian Brunel
Walter C. Mycroft
Val Valentine
Starring Teddy Brown
Helen Burnell
Donald Calthrop
Cinematography Claude Friese-Greene
Distributed by Wardour Films Flag of United Kingdom
Release date(s) 1930
Running time 86 min.
Country Flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom
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Elstree Calling is a 1930 film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock. It is a lavish musical revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which has been produced by the major studios in the United States. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast.

Hitchcock's contribution was the comic linking segments about a man trying to get the revue on his television set, but always failing to get the picture for long because of his needless tinkering. In imitation of the lavish use of colour by Hollywood studios at that time, two sequences of the film were photographed using the Pathé stencil colour process.

The film consists of 19 comedy and music vignettes linked by running jokes of an aspiring Shakespearean actor and technical problems with a viewer's TV set.



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