Elstree Calling
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| 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. 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 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Copyright status
The following two views are opposed to each other over the copyright of this work.
- Copyright is already expired in Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 because it's issued over 70 years.
- Copyright is available until 2050 (over 70 years from death of Hitchcock) on Directive harmonizing the term of copyright protection#Films and photographs.
In U.S., there is a contractor who releases public domain DVD based on the former view.
On the other hand, Canal+ which holds the present copyright asserts copyright continuation based on the latter view.
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