OT:- Alfred Hitchcock on film production

This is good link a of which I was previously unaware. Much of what Hitch says about film production is pretty obvious I suppose in 2023 but he also gives a good potted history of film from his own perspective of a guy born in 1899. People often forget that Hitch actually saw the very first feature films in real time (e.g., he was there for Chaplin's directorial style breakthrough with an uncharacteristic straight drama, and no role for Chaplin himself/The Tramp, the now largely forgotten and unwatched A Woman In Paris (1923); e.g., 2 Hitch was there for Griffith and had a good view of what he did and did not invent/do first, noting that Griffith didn't much bother with scripts let alone shot lists whereas Ince did. Hitch remembers when Ince's model of production wasn't a settled thing - when the biggest cheese in Hollywood wasn't a fan and that film *could* have evolved quite differently from there), and who saw the whole edifice of a movie industry assemble itself and then evolve with the times. Hitch doesn't hold back at the end of the article about the turmoil that post-WW2 declines in audiences as TV arrived caused in the industry, and then what he describes as a big change towards new stability in 1958 by making fewer, bigger films with longer release windows. It's very cool really that Hitch took time out to write (or at least supervise the writing of) this in 1963.