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Hitchcock Chronology: Gainsborough Pictures

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Gainsborough Pictures...

1924

July

September

1925

December

1926

January

May

  • The editing of The Lodger is completed. However, due to concerns voiced within the company about the film's commerical appeal, Gainsborough recruits Ivor Montagu to tigten up the editing and flow of the film. Montagu reduces the number of intertitles and hires avant garde graphic designer E. McKnight Kauffer to create a new opening title sequence.[7][8]

1927

January

  • Gainsborough Pictures announces that Alfred Hitchcock will direct Downhill.[9]

June

1958

September

  • 7th - British film director Graham Cutts, who worked with the young Hitchcock at Gainsborough Pictures in the 1920s, dies aged 72.

References

  1. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 61
  2. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 66
  3. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 62
  4. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 74
  5. The Times (05/Jan/1926) - The Film World
  6. See Daily Mail (30/Jan/1926) - Mr. Ivor Novello, The Times (02/Feb/1926) - The Film World and The Times (16/Feb/1926) - The Film World
  7. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 83-84
  8. Sight and Sound (1980) - Working with Hitchcock
  9. The Times (12/Jan/1927) - The Film World
  10. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 93