拍品 63
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Alfred Hitchcock
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 顯示更多 The following five lots are sold on behalf of a member of the Balcon Family Sir Michael Balcon (1896-1977) regarded as one of the most significant figures in British Cinema, began his cinematic career as a distributor, then a producer from the early 1920s. He launched Alfred Hitchcock's career and built up a big annual production programme of sound films for Gainsborough and Gaumont British, during which time he was behind the production of several important British films including Hitchcock's early masterpieces. In 1936 production at Gaumont ceased and he became head of MGM British for whom he produced one film A Yank at Oxford wih Robert Taylor, he prepared Goodbye Mr. Chips and was then summarily dismissed by Louis B. Mayer after a disagreement. Between 1937-1959 he acted as director and chief of production for Ealing Studios and was responsible for the famous Ealing comedies of the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1959 he helped form Bryanston Films, a group of independent film-makers including several ex-Ealing colleagues. After a frustrating period as Chairman of British Lion, 1964-1968, he became Chairman of the British Film Institute's Experimental Film Fund. He was knighted in 1948 and was also Knight first class order of St. Olaf (Norway) & Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (France). He retired in 1972.
Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
A rare British première programme for The Lodger, 1926 -- 16¼x12 1/8in. (40.7x30.5cm.)
出版
KATZ, Ephraim The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia, London: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 1994, pp. 78 & 630
BERG, Charles Ramirez Alfred Hitchcock - A Brief Biography 1996
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It is significant that this programme originally belonged to Sir Michael Balcon, one of the most important figures in British Cinema who was responsible for launching Alfred Hitchcock's career. (See lot 65).
Although Hitchcock directed two films before The Lodger - The Pleasure Garden (1925) and Always Tell Your Wife (1925) - he considered The Lodger to be ...his first true film... In many ways it was a breakthrough which also came to represent a blueprint for his future films. In the words of Ephraim Katz, this particular suspense drama ...told much of its story in visual terms. It contained some bold special effects and introduced a theme that was to reappear in many of the director's films, that of a man accused of a crime he did not commit, an ordinary man caught in a web of extraordinary events. It was also the first film in which Hitchcock made a personal appearance... an occurrence which later became a Hitchcock trademark.