• "C.A.L." was more usually known as C. A. (Caroline Alice) Lejeune who began her career on The Manchester Guardian and was film critic of The Observer (1928–1960). Identified under the headline as being "By Our Film Correspondent" with her monogram at the end of the text. Lejeune visited the set of Secret Agent while the film was in production. Her wikiquote article has a section on the director's early British period.
[Hitchcock quoted] "I'm on a diet. And I don't do crazy tricks in my pictures any more. You know what a good time I used to have in the old days, with violent cuts and dissolves and wipes, everything in the room spinning round, standing on its head, all that sort of thing. But I've stopped all that. I haven't time to waste any more on technical tricks. I like my screen well filled, every corner used, but I've no fancy theories I want the cutting and continuity to be as inconspicuous as possible. All I'm concerned with is to get the characters developed and the story clearly told, without wasting any footage. I've turned technical ascetic, kid, without either fun or luxuries."
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Hitchcock quoted] "I'm on a diet. And I don't do crazy tricks in my pictures any more. You know what a good time I used to have in the old days, with violent cuts and dissolves and wipes, everything in the room spinning round, standing on its head, all that sort of thing. But I've stopped all that. I haven't time to waste any more on technical tricks. I like my screen well filled, every corner used, but I've no fancy theories I want the cutting and continuity to be as inconspicuous as possible. All I'm concerned with is to get the characters developed and the story clearly told, without wasting any footage. I've turned technical ascetic, kid, without either fun or luxuries."" in the context of "C.A.L. "Alfred Hitchcock and His Work: On 'The Set' and Off. A Contrast", The Observer (17 November 1935)
• "C.A.L." was more usually known as C. A. (Caroline Alice) Lejeune who began her career on The Manchester Guardian and was film critic of The Observer (1928–1960). Identified under the headline as being "By Our Film Correspondent" with her monogram at the end of the text. Lejeune visited the set of Secret Agent while the film was in production. Her wikiquote article has a section on the director's early British period." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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