https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8ccd58b6-d3cb-43d3-9b94-a13be4b3fa20 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent home movie takes a look into the personal life of Alfred Hitchcock; British film director and producer. His career spanned six decades as he directed at least 50 films. He is known to be one of the most influential figures of the history of cinema. The footage is of and filmed by Hitchcock as well as by his wife and collaborator Alma Reville. This portion of the feature mostly shows images of Alma and Pat playing together with some footage from behind the scenes of one of Alfred’s hits called “Blackmail” released in 1929. The film opens with images of a boat moving on water as the family had taken a trip to Europe for research for some of Alfred’s films (:28). Their young daughter, Pat takes the boat’s steering wheel (:32). Alma and Pat walk up stone steps (:47). They appear to be at Nesso on Lake Como in Italy (:53). Tiny boats dot the water ahead (1:37). Still aboard a small boat they near a horse and buggy hanging on the edge of the water (1:57). Fog rolls over high hills surrounding the water (2:38). Luxury homes line the coast (3:59). They pass other boaters on the water (4:39) and dock (5:12) to explore the city. Pat plays in an inner tube in the water (5:24). Alma swims behind (5:51). They row a small boat amid rocks (6:35) as Pat waves to her father filming (6:49). Alfred films his shadow (7:17). Alma stands in front of a garden of with tulips springing up (8:31). Pat sprints through the garden (9:31). Alfred takes to his bicycle, awkwardly, again (11:30). He reads over a script (12:16). Pat appears to practice a frightened look (12:52) for the camera man. A brass band appears (13:25). The little girl eats supper (14:21) with her mother (14:26). A house maid steps from the cottage door (16:38) and Pat drags out another house maid (16:59). They use a baby carriage to transport bottles of champagne (17:53). Alfred and a friend pretend to eat bananas backwards (19:46). Alma picks flowers in the field (20:21). Alfred walks with his mother, Emma Jane Hitchcock (21:07). John Longden delivers tea to guests (21:48). Scenes from the set (21:55) of Blackmail show Alfred directing Anny Ondra. Alfred; notorious for his bad behavior with his female stars, plays with Anny’s dress (22:25). In this scene, Anny’s character attempts to fight off advances from John Longden portraying an artist (23:23). Alfred appears dressed in a long black coat and top hat (23:58). The group visits a carousel ride (25:05). They return to the sea (26:21) for another voyage. The captain leans against the railing (26:57). A tennis game is played aboard the ship (27:15) as gulls fly above. Back at their home in Sussex (27:37) a friend flips through a magazine on the couch. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPx1yz3TIs Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:08:04 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8ccd58b6-d3cb-43d3-9b94-a13be4b3fa20 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.