Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 by Hitchcock Alfred Gottlieb Sidney

Author:Hitchcock, Alfred,Gottlieb, Sidney.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bibliography of writings by Hitchcock
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

“Films We Could Make” was originally published in the London Evening News, November 16, 1927.

“Stodgy” British Pictures

It is just six years since I started work on the first British all-talking picture, Blackmail. I am now preparing an adaptation of John Buchan’s The 39 Steps.

In those six years the sound picture has progressed and matured enormously, but there is a danger of our British studios being content to turn out standardized types of pictures. British talkies need more variety.

It must always be remembered that the primary aim of pictures is to provide entertainment. To entertain people, one must first capture their interest.

For example, the initial problem which has confronted every film director since the invention of moving pictures has been to give a three-dimensional (realistic) effect to his two-dimensional creations. You’ve got to convey the impression that your characters are really alive before you can persuade an audience to take them and their problems seriously. To do that the director relies on camera movement and other technical devices which give a full-bodied effect and, what is more important, freshness.

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