Elstree Studio Casting (1925 1929)

Elstree Studio Casting (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire). 1925 1929 Possibly for film âœElstree Callingâ. Motion pictures; production. Casting at Elstree film studio in London; c. 1925 Great raw footage of Elstree directors; including a young Alfred Hitchcock; looking over wouldbe actresses at a cattle call audition. Group of young women; nearly every one w, her hair in fashionable marcel waves; parade in a circle around a room; past table where the studio men sit; frowning and smoking cigars and making notes. The girls are a mixed bunch: some are very pretty; some are rather plain; some seem to be experienced models w, confidence and professional moves; others stiff and awkward. They are dressed in a variety of day and evening dresses great fashions. The aspiring ingenues step up to the table one at a time and read a few lines from script shots of this from various distances and angles; CUs of two of the girls reading. Hitchcock sits (or rather slumps) on the left end; if one is facing the table.