Sound film "The Clue of the New Pin", a British Lion production using the sound-on-disc British Photophone system. In May, "Black Waters", a British and Dominions Film Corporation promoted as the first UK all-talker, received its initial trade screening; it had been shot completely in Hollywood with a Western Electric sound-on-film system. None of these pictures made much impact. The first successful European dramatic talkie was the all-British "Blackmail". Directed by twenty-nine-year-old Alfred Hitchcock, the movie had its London debut June 21, 1929. Originally shot as a silent, "Blackmail" was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects,
Jeremy Hitchcock Upon graduating, Hitchcock moved the company to Manchester, New Hampshire, where it is still headquartered. As CEO, he funded the company until 2012 when it finally took its first round of outside capital – $38 million from North Bridge Venture Partners. The company raised $100M total outside funding. Hitchcock is an active angel investor and is currently Founder and CEO of wifi management and IoT security startup, Minim, based in Manchester, NH Jeremy Hitchcock Jeremy Hitchcock (born September 11, 1981) is co-founder and former CEO of Dyn. Hitchcock resigned from the business in May 2016 prior to the Oracle acquisition,