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Elstree Calling (1930
1930 in film

Events...
) is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Andre Charlot
André Charlot

Andr? Charlot was a France impresario known primarily for the highly successful musical theatre revues he staged in London between 1912 and 1937....
, Jack Hulbert
Jack Hulbert

John Norman Hulbert was a United Kingdom actor....
, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 at Elstree Studios
Elstree Studios

Historically, the name "Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England....
. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
 revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
 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
Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is an all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed byseveral directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V....
 (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 broadcast.






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Elstree Calling (1930
1930 in film

Events...
) is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Andre Charlot
André Charlot

Andr? Charlot was a France impresario known primarily for the highly successful musical theatre revues he staged in London between 1912 and 1937....
, Jack Hulbert
Jack Hulbert

John Norman Hulbert was a United Kingdom actor....
, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 at Elstree Studios
Elstree Studios

Historically, the name "Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England....
. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
 revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
 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
Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is an all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed byseveral directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V....
 (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 broadcast. The film consists of 19 comedy and music vignettes
Vignette (literature)

In theater Play and poetry writing, vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting....
 linked by running jokes of an aspiring Shakespearean
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 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
John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems , his early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in televis...
's work in mechanical television
Mechanical television

Mechanical television was a television system that used mechanics or electromechanical devices to capture and display images. However, the images themselves were usually transmitted electronics and via radio waves....
 in the 1920s made television a topical subject at the time.) In imitation of the lavish use of Technicolor
Technicolor

Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
 by Hollywood studios at that time, two sequences of the film were photographed using the Pathécolor
Pathécolor

Path?color, later renamed Path?chrome, was an early manual stencil-based film tinting process for movies developed by Path? in the early 20th century....
 stencil
Stencil

A stencil is a wikt:template used to drawing or painting identical Letter , symbols, shapes, or patterns every time it is used. Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir....
 colour process.

Cast

  • Teddy Brown
    Teddy Brown

    Teddy Brown was an United States entertainer who spent the latter part of his life performing in England. He was born Abraham Himmelbrand in 1900, and first played in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, but move to the field of popular music in the 1920s....
  • Helen Burnell
  • Donald Calthrop
    Donald Calthrop

    Donald Calthrop , was an English film actor. He appeared in 63 films between 1916 in film and 1941 in film, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock....
  • Bobbie Comber
  • Cicely Courtneidge
    Cicely Courtneidge

    Dame Cicely Courtneidge Order of the British Empire was an England actress and comedian....
  • Will Fyffe
    Will Fyffe

    Will Fyffe was a major star of the 1930?s and 1940?s, a star of stage, screen and vinyl. Will travelled extensively throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK, playing the numerous music halls of the time, where he would perform his sketches and sing his songs in his own inimitable style....
  • Tommy Handley
    Tommy Handley

    Tommy Handley was an England comedian mainly known for the BBC radio program It's That Man Again .Born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool in Lancashire....
  • Gordon Harker
    Gordon Harker

    Gordon Harker , was an English film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1921 in film and 1959 in film, including three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a cameo appearance in Elstree Calling , a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock....
  • Jack Hulbert
    Jack Hulbert

    John Norman Hulbert was a United Kingdom actor....
  • Hannah Jones
  • John Longden
    John Longden

    John Longden , was a West Indian-born English film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1926 in film and 1964 in film, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock....
  • Ivor McLaren
  • Lily Morris
    Lily Morris

    Lily Morris , born Lilles Mary Crosby, was an England music hall performer, who specialized in comedic singing.Morris was born in the Holborn area, London, and began performing professionally at the age of ten.She built a formidable career, including several successful international tours....
  • Nathan Shacknovsky
  • John Stuart
  • Jameson Thomas
    Jameson Thomas

    Jameson Thomas , was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 in film and 1939 in film.He was born in London and died in Sierra Madre, California, it is said from Tuberculosis....
  • Anna May Wong


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