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Shepperton Babylon

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Matthew
Sweet's titillating history of early
British cinema. The transition from silent films to "talkies", coupled with the rapid rise and fall of matinee idols and insatiable media interest in their off-screen antics, made for a torrid time between the late 1920s and the start of the Second World War. An early
British "talkie", the Alfred Hitchcock -directed Blackmail, follows.

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Alfred Hitchcock
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