"We won't be getting this mini-Hitch in the UK, or the EU for that matter, due to rights, but lucky US viewers will be able to watch the film that Hitchcock considered the first time I exercised my style in a format that largely disregards that style. The Lodger will be presented with its squarish 4:3 image either extended or cut down to fill a vertical phone screen. So there will often be parts of the image missing, which is a problem."
"The opening shot of The Lodger is a chilling closeup of a woman screaming, her head tilted so that her entire face fills the frame, lit from behind to emphasise her blond hair. Hitchcock told Truffaut that in The Lodger, he presented ideas in purely visual terms. This closeup represents the terror spreading across London as a ripper targets young, golden-haired women. Is the idea intact, even if the image isn't? Hitchcock, a well-known stickler for carefully composed frames, may well disagree."
Tattle TV will stream Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927) reframed for vertical, mobile-first viewing as a serialized microdrama. The vertical presentation will be available in the US but not in the UK or EU because of rights. The original squarish 4:3 image will be either extended or cropped to fill a vertical phone screen, which will frequently remove parts of composed frames. The Lodger's opening closeup and other carefully composed shots risk losing visual information that conveys narrative and mood. The move exemplifies archival cinema repurposing for new platforms and raises tensions between accessibility and preservation.
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