Elstree Story

Elstree Story

56 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1952

Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including Hitchcock’s Blackmail, the first feature-length British talkie ever shown – with early appearances by some of cinema’s greatest stars; it is a most memorable and evocative journey through the years.

Elstree Story

56 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1952

Elstree Story
Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including Hitchcock’s Blackmail, the first feature-length British talkie ever shown – with early appearances by some of cinema’s greatest stars; it is a most memorable and evocative journey through the years.
Producers Associated British Picture Corporation
Original title Elstree Story
Directors Gilbert Gunn
Writers

Cast

Monty Banks

as Himself

Jack Buchanan

as Himself

Richard Todd

as Himself