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Hitchcock was affected by major events of the era like the First World War or the Great War. As he failed medical examination he couldn’t enter military service. Hitchcock showed active interest in movies and plays which was a recent form of entertainment. He was captivated by motion pictures frequented movie theatres and turned to be an avid reader of film journals and these were not fan magazines but trade publications that gave a detailed account of business and technical side of filmmaking. Hitchcock’s career began as a title card designer for the London branch of Famous Player’s Lasky-the production arm of Paramount Pictures from where he learned the nuts and bolts of film making. He did almost every job in the studio, an informal

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