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Auction History Result 7h0386 BLACKMAIL English magazine supplement 1929 first British talkie, Alfred Hitchcock, ultra rare! Date Sold 1/24/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage English Magazine Supplement (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Blackmail, the 1929 Alfred Hitchcock English romantic murder blackmail thriller ("The Powerful Talking Picture"; "A Romance of Scotland Yard"; "The first British talkie"; "Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Action."; "See & hear it"; "From Charles Bennett's famous stage play"; "Britain's all-talking challenge to the world"; about a woman who kills a man in self defense, but another man who witnessed the murder blackmails her, and her lover is the detective who is investigating the case, and the blackmailer dies, falling through the glass dome at the top of the British Museum; at the end, the girl, not knowing the blackmailer has died, goes to Scotland Yard to confess, but just before she can, she learns of his death, and she and her detective lover are free to leave!) starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Sara Allgood, and Charles Paton. Note that this was originally intended to be a silent movie, but after the massive success of The Jazz Singer, it was decided that parts of this would be given sound. Apparently, Hitchcock thought this ridiculous and had the entire movie filmed in sound, making it England's first all-talking movie. Also, star Anny Ondra had a very thick accent, so Hitchcock hired another actress to speak her lines as Ondra mouthed the words, so her part was in effect "dubbed", even though it was not in the modern sense, where a different voice is added post production (that technology did not exist in 1929). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the top English movie magazines started including "supplements" in the center of the magazine (sometimes they were bound in, and sometimes they were loose). These were like the Sunday newspaper "rotogravure" sections, and were all sepia and had great images from then-current movies. In the case of this supplement, it consists of 4 pages, and the center two pages are on the movie "A Certain Young Man" with Ramon Novarro, and the back page is on Karl Dane, but what is of interest to collectors is that the first page is on Hitchcock's first British talkie, "Blackmail", because virtually no movie paper of any kind from this film exists, and this is "country of origin"! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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