Elstree Calling
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock Andre Charlot Jack Hulbert Paul Murray |
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| Written by | Adrian Brunel Walter C. Mycroft Val Valentine |
| Starring | Teddy Brown Helen Burnell Donald Calthrop |
| Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
| Distributed by | British International Pictures  |
| Release date(s) | 1930 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
Elstree Calling (1930) is a film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which has been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as Paramount on Parade (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. 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.
Hitchcock's contribution was the comic linking segments about a man trying to "tune in" the revue on his television set, but always failing to get the picture for long because of his needless tinkering. (In the UK, John Logie Baird's work in mechanical television in the 1920s made television a topical subject at the time.) In imitation of the lavish use of Technicolor by Hollywood studios at that time, two sequences of the film were photographed using the Pathécolor stencil colour process.
Cast
- Teddy Brown
- Helen Burnell
- Donald Calthrop
- Bobbie Comber
- Cicely Courtneidge
- Will Fyffe
- Tommy Handley
- Gordon Harker
- Jack Hulbert
- Hannah Jones
- John Longden
- Ivor McLaren
- Lily Morris
- Nathan Shacknovsky
- John Stuart
- Jameson Thomas
- Anna May Wong
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