Elstree Studio Casting (1925-1929)

Elstree Studio Casting (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire). 1925 - 1929? Possibly for film “Elstree Calling”. Motion pictures; production. Casting at Elstree film studio in London; c. 1925? Great raw footage of Elstree directors; including a young Alfred Hitchcock; looking over would-be actresses at a cattle call audition. Group of young women; nearly every one w/ her hair in fashionable marcel waves; parade in a circle around a room; past table where the studio men sit; frowning and smoking cigars and making notes. The girls are a mixed bunch: some are very pretty; some are rather plain; some seem to be experienced models w/ confidence and professional moves; others stiff and awkward. They are dressed in a variety of day and evening dresses - great fashions. The aspiring ingenues step up to the table one at a time and read a few lines from script - shots of this from various distances and angles; CUs of two of the girls reading. Hitchcock sits (or rather slumps) on the left end; if one is facing the table.