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1446: 31: 317:(then contracted to BIP) was... employed on the production; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television (the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions)." 250:
Among Hitchcock's contributions was the comic linking segments about a man trying to "tune in" the revue on his television set, but always failing to get the picture for long because of his needless tinkering. In the UK,
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and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as
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in the 1920s made television a topical subject at the time. The film's ensemble numbers were staged by
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on home video. As of early 2019, the officially licensed, preserved version has only appeared on
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trio, The Three Eddies: Shakey (Clarence) Beasley, Chick (Layburn) Horsey and Tiny (Earle) Ray
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The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish
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by Hollywood studios at that time, four sequences in the film were coloured by the
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is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons:
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actor and technical problems with a viewer's TV set.
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Adrian Brunel
Alfred Hitchcock
Walter C. Mycroft
Val Valentine
Tommy Handley
Donald Calthrop
Claude Friese-Greene
British International Pictures
comedy
musical film
Adrian Brunel
Alfred Hitchcock
Elstree Studios
musical film
revue
Paramount on Parade
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
running jokes
Shakespearean
John Logie Baird
mechanical television
André Charlot
Jack Hulbert
Technicolor
Pathécolor
stencils
black and white
British International Pictures
Tommy Handley

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