At the increased pace of the silent era, which produced significantly shorter movies than is done today, with fewer retakes and locations, he directed a dozen movies by the end of the decade.
As a young man, Hitchcock worked in advertising before becoming interested in film, applying his experience in graphic design for a job creating the title sequences for silent movies. He worked in similar roles in the burgeoning film industry for five years before directing The Pleasure Garden in 1925. Filmed in Germany, home to many of Hitchcock’s visual influences, the melodrama of madness and murder centers around betrayal and adultery, setting the stage for his reputation as a director of particularly “sexualized” films. In the following years, Hitchcock continued to develop as a filmmaker and grew in reputation. At the increased pace of the silent era, which produced significantly shorter movies than is done today, with fewer retakes and locations, he directed a dozen movies by the end of the decade. Among them was Blackmail, the first full-fledged “talkie” of the British pictures.