Gene Adair reports that by most accounts, Alfred was only an average, or slightly above average, student,1. Mc. Gilligan writes that Hitchcock certainly excelled academically. When Hitchcock was 1. In that same year, he left St. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar, London. After leaving, he became a draftsman and advertising designer with an electrical cable company called Henleys. During the First World War, Hitchcock was called up to serve in the British Army he was ultimately excused from military service with a C3 classification due to his size, height or an unnamed medical condition, but was nonetheless able to stand service conditions in garrisons at home. Hitchcock joined a cadet regiment of the Royal Engineers in 1. His military stint was limited, and he mainly engaged in theoretical briefings, weekend drills, and exercises. Hitchcock would march around Londons Hyde Park and was required to wear military puttees, though he never mastered the proper wrapping of them. While working at Henleys, Hitchcock began to dabble in creative writing. The companys in house publication The Henley Telegraph was founded in 1. His first piece, Gas 1. Londononly for the twist to reveal that it was all just a hallucination in the dentists chair induced by the anesthetic. Hitchcocks second piece was The Womans Part 1. Sordid 1. 92. 0 surrounds an attempt to buy a sword from an antiques dealer, with another twist ending. The short story And There Was No Rainbow 1. Hitchcocks first brush with possibly censurable material. A young man goes out looking for a brothel, only to stumble into the house of his best friends girl. Whats Who 1. 92. Abbott and Costellos Whos on First routine, as it is a short dialogue piece resembling antic dialogue from a music hall skit. It captures the confusion that occurs when a group of actors decide to put together a sketch in which they will impersonate themselves. In the storys forty sentences, confusion regarding the questions Whos me and Whos you rise to comic emotional heights. The History of Pea Eating 1. His final piece, Fedora 1. It also gives a strikingly accurate description of his future wife Alma Reville, whom he had not yet met. British silent filmseditHitchcock was a film fan from his teenage years, and in 1. London branch of the American firm Famous Players Lasky, the production arm of Paramount Pictures, at Islington Studios. After Famous Players Lasky pulled out of London in 1. Hitchcock stayed as part of the studio staff. He was hired by a new firm run by Michael Balcon and others after being noticed at work on the short film Always Tell Your Wife in early 1. In time Balcons company took the name Gainsborough Pictures. His rise from title designer to film director took five years. During this period, he became an unusual combination of screenwriter, art director, and assistant director on a series of five films for Balcon and director Graham Cutts Woman to Woman 1. The White Shadow 1. The Passionate Adventure 1. The Blackguard 1. The Prudes Fall 1. Hitchcocks 1. 92. Cutts, The Blackguard German Die Prinzessin und der Geiger, 1. Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, where Hitchcock observed part of the making of F. W. Murnaus film The Last Laugh 1. He was impressed with Murnaus work and later used many techniques for the set design in his own productions. In a book length interview with Franois Truffaut, Hitchcock also said that he was influenced by Fritz Langs film Destiny 1. He was likewise influenced by other foreign filmmakers whose work he absorbed as one of the earliest members of the seminal London Film Society, formed in 1. Hitchcock right during the making of Number 1. London. Hitchcocks first few films faced a string of bad luck. His first directing project came in 1. Number 1. 3, filmed in London. The production was cancelled because of financial problems 3. Michael Balcon3. Hitchcock another opportunity for a directing credit with The Pleasure Garden 1. Gainsborough and the German firm Emelka, which he made at the Geiselgasteig studio near Munich in the summer of 1. The film was a commercial flop. Next, Hitchcock directed a drama called The Mountain Eagle 1. Fear o God, in the United States. 350Z Coilover Install. This film is lost. Hitchcocks luck changed with his first thriller, The Lodger A Story of the London Fog 1. Jack the Ripper type of serial killer in London. Released in January 1. United Kingdom. 3. As with many of his earlier works, this film was influenced by Expressionist techniques Hitchcock had witnessed first hand in Germany. Some commentators regard this piece as the first truly Hitchcockian3. Following the success of The Lodger, Hitchcock hired a publicist to help strengthen his growing reputation. On 2 December 1. 92. Hitchcock married his assistant director, Alma Reville,4. Brompton Oratory in South Kensington, London. Alma was to become Hitchcocks closest collaborator, but her contributions to his films some of which were credited on screen Hitchcock would discuss only in private, as she was keen to avoid public attention. In 1. 92. 8, Hitchcock and Alma purchased a house named Winters Grace, situated on Stroud Lane, Shamley Green, in Surrey.