- Elstree Calling
Infobox Film
name = Elstree Calling
image_size = 175px
caption =
imdb_id = 0020852
producer =
director =Alfred Hitchcock Andre Charlot Jack Hulbert
Paul Murray
writer =Adrian Brunel Walter C. Mycroft Val Valentine
starring =Teddy Brown
Helen BurnellDonald Calthrop
music =
cinematography =Claude Friese-Greene
editing =
distributor =Wardour Films flagicon|United Kingdom
released = 1930
country = UK
budget =
runtime = 86 min.
amg_id =
language ="Elstree Calling" is a 1930
film directed byAndre Charlot ,Jack Hulbert , Paul Murray, andAlfred 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 byrunning jokes of an aspiring Shakespearean actor and technical problems with a viewer'sTV 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.Cast
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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 Copyright status
The following two views are opposed to each other over the copyright of this work.
#Copyright is already expired inCopyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 because it's issued over 70 years.
#Copyright is available until 2050 (over 70 years from death of Hitchcock) onDirective harmonizing the term of copyright protection#Films and photographs .In U.S., there is a contractor who releasespublic 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.External links
*imdb title|id=0020852|title=Elstree Calling
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