The Life and Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock was a British film director who emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He was noted for his films of suspense, beginning in the silent era and extending through the development of sound and into the television era. He was born in 1899 in London. His father was a poultry dealer and fruit importer. Hitchcock was educated at the Jesuits' Saint Ignatius College. He also attended the School of Engineering and Navigation at the University of London, where he studied mechanics, electricity, acoustics, and navigation. His first job was as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph Company; he was nineteen. In the evenings he studied art at the University of London and soon transferred to the advertising department of the electric cable manufacturer to design ads for cables. His interest in the growing film industry led to his submission of a portfolio of title designs to accompany the silent films of Famous Players-Lasky, which was opening a London branch, and he wrote and designed the title cards for several movies beginning in 1921. His first film as a director was Number Thirteen in 1922, but the film was never completed. Hitchcock would later film the story as a sound film. In 1922 Hitchcock stepped in and finished Always Tell Your Wife when the original director fell ill. Hitchcock was an assistant director to Graham Cutts on several films for the newly-formed Gainsborough Pictures. It was during this time that he met Alma Reville, a film edit
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ith the limits of the fluid style of Murnau. Rope, for instance, is a film structured so as to be one long take, emulating the stage origins of the piece but using placement of the camera to go beyond that and to force the attention of the audience toward different elements in a scene. Hitchcock had used long takes before in several films, notably Under Capricorn and The Paradine Case. He was one of the first filmmakers to explore the growing field of psychology with Spellbound. He experimented with limitations of space in Lifeboat, a film that takes place entirely on a small lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.
His tendency to experiment and to test the boundaries can be seen in his British films as he adapted some of the ways of German expressionism to a different context. The influence of German expressionism is seen in several sequences in Sabotage, for instance, notably in the murder sequence as the wife takes the only way out she has by killing her husband. She has come to this conclusion in the almost surrealistic sequence where she views the cartoons, one of which seems to speak to her and urge her to kill. The scene takes place during the evening meal: "There is no dialogue in the scene--she is carving the meat and
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