Alfred Hitchcock wrote in 1982: "The Hitchcock touch had four hands, and two were Alma's." Hitchcock began work on his tenth film, "Blackmail" (1929), when its production company, British International Pictures (BIP), converted its Elstree studios to sound. The film was the first British ""; it followed the first American sound feature film, "The Jazz Singer" (1927). "Blackmail" began the Hitchcock tradition of using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences, with the climax taking place on the dome of the British Museum. It also features one of his longest cameo appearances, which shows him being bothered by a small boy
Carol Hitchcock (March 1987). The recording featured Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Bananarama. The final episode of "Countdown" aired on 19 July; the compère, Molly Meldrum, interviewed Hitchcock. Her music video for "Get Ready" was also broadcast. In August of that year Hitchcock anticipated working on her second single with Stock, Aitken, Waterman, "I'll just wait to see what happens after this next single. They seem to like me, they've said I'm easy to get along with, and there is talk about an album." In March 1988 Wellham contrasted Hitchcock's music video for her single with Kylie Minogue's "I Should Be So