London:
An Alfred Hitchcock film, which was found in a garden shed in New Zealand, has got a Hollywood showing after nearly 80 years.
Hitchcock was just 24 when he wrote, edited, designed and assistant-directed the silent film The White Shadow, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The film was being shown at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.
David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, described the discovery as "one of the most significant developments in memory".
"These first three reels offer a priceless opportunity to study his visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape," he was quoted as saying.
The only known print of Hitchcock's silent film lay in a garden shed in the North Island town of Hastings for decades.
It was part of a collection by Jack Murtagh, a cinema projectionist.
Hitchcock was just 24 when he wrote, edited, designed and assistant-directed the silent film The White Shadow, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The film was being shown at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.
David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, described the discovery as "one of the most significant developments in memory".
"These first three reels offer a priceless opportunity to study his visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape," he was quoted as saying.
The only known print of Hitchcock's silent film lay in a garden shed in the North Island town of Hastings for decades.
It was part of a collection by Jack Murtagh, a cinema projectionist.
