Alfred Hitchcock

"Alfred Hitchcock is undeniably one of the most influential filmmakers to ever live. His auteur style and challenging film content/ experimental style are still studied by film scholars today. Throughout his lifetime, Hitchcock made over 50 featured films in the span of six decades. Known for his practical jokes on set and morbid fascination with black comedy, he made an impression on everyone he worked with. Here are twenty-three trivia facts about arguably the most important film artist to live."

Alfred Hitchcock's first ever films were silent movies. His silent films were called:

• The Lodger- (1926)- one of his earliest thrillers was "the lodgers"; this was a film about a serial killer- opening with the death of someone made in 1927. This would be something that audience were not desensitised by at this point as people hadn't seen thrillers like this.
• The Ring- (1927)
• Easy Virtue- (1927)
• Champagne- (1928)
• The Farmer's Wife- (1928)

In an interview  of Hitchcock he said how he created emotions without sound, and working with what he had.