Editing Alfred Hitchcock (section)

====Famous Players–Lasky====
[[File:Number 13.jpg|thumb|alt=An early 1920s image of Hitchcock while directing his film titled Number 13|Hitchcock (right) during the making of ''[[Number 13 (1922 film)|Number 13]]'' in London]]
While still at Henley's, he read in a trade paper that [[Famous Players–Lasky]], the production arm of [[Paramount Pictures]], was opening a studio in London.{{sfn|Truffaut|1983|p=27}} They were planning to film ''[[The Sorrows of Satan]]'' by [[Marie Corelli]], so he produced some drawings for the [[title cards]] and sent his work to the studio.{{sfn|Taylor|1996|p=24}} They hired him, and in 1919 he began working for [[Islington Studios]] in Poole Street, [[Hoxton]], as a title-card designer.{{sfn|Truffaut|1983|p=27}}

Donald Spoto wrote that most of the staff were Americans with strict job specifications, but the English workers were encouraged to try their hand at anything, which meant that Hitchcock gained experience as a co-writer, art director and production manager on at least 18 silent films.{{sfn|Spoto|2008|p=3}} ''The Times'' wrote in February 1922 about the studio's "special art title department under the supervision of Mr. A. J. Hitchcock".<ref name=MillerBFI>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Henry K. |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1422787/index.html |title=Always Tell Your Wife (1923) |publisher=British Film Institute Screenonline |access-date=25 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213454/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1422787/index.html|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> His work included ''[[Number 13 (1922 film)|Number 13]]'' (1922), also known as ''Mrs. Peabody;'' it was cancelled because of financial problems - the few finished scenes are [[Lost film|lost]]{{sfn|Spoto|1992|p=3}}{{snd}}and ''[[Always Tell Your Wife]]'' (1923), which he and [[Seymour Hicks]] finished together when Hicks was about to give up on it.{{sfn|Truffaut|1983|p=27}} Hicks wrote later about being helped by "a fat youth who was in charge of the property room&nbsp;... [n]one other than Alfred Hitchcock".{{sfn|Kerzoncuf|Barr|2015|p=45}}<!--check page-->