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Transatlantic Pictures. Transatlantic Pictures was founded by Alfred Hitchcock and longtime associate Sidney Bernstein at the end of World War II in preparation for the end of Hitchcock's contract with David O. Selznick in 1947.
…formed his own production company, Transatlantic Pictures, which would make films in America and England. Its first film was also his first color film, Rope (1948), which was based on the sensational 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case.
Transatlantic Pictures was founded by Alfred Hitchcock and longtime associate Sidney Bernstein at the end of World War II in preparation for the end of Hitchcock's contract with David O. Selznick in 1947.
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Transatlantic Pictures was officially launched in April 1946, with Under Capricorn to be their first production, starring Ingrid Bergman. A few months later, Hitchcock proposed to speedily film an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play Rope using long takes and this became the company's first production.
Hitchcock visits London to discuss potential material for Transatlantic Pictures' debut film with Sidney Bernstein, and to scout for locations that could be used in footage for the The Paradine Case — this includes a trip northwards to Cumbria with unit manager Fred Ahern.
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