Blackmail PG

Hitchcock filmed Blackmail in both silent and sound versions and the differences between the two highlight just how successfully and imaginatively he took on the technological challenges of synchronous sound recording. We will be screening the sound version of the film.

A season of films showing Alfred Hitchcock dealt with the challenges of moving from silent cinema to sound. This selection of his films from the late 1920s through to the 1930s will illustrate how adept Hitchcock was at mastering advances in cinema technology and how his early British films display stylistic and thematic traits that would regularly reappear throughout his career. These films will show how Hitchcock not only mastered the use of synchronous sound but also established himself as the master of suspense.

Hitchcock in Transition, 1925-1936

The Showroom’s Film Studies programme is open to everybody interested in film. Each term is focused around a theme with alternate screenings and discussions and led by film lecturers every Wednesday at 6.45pm. The terms are 8 weeks long, with 4 films and 4 sessions.

Tickets for the whole term can be booked at the Box Office. Tickets are also available for the films individually.