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
Release date(s)	1930
Running time	86 min.
Country	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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• Elstree Calling at the Internet Movie Database

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