Alfred Hitchcock described the silent pictures as "the purest form of cinema". In this film, historians Henry K. Miller and Matthew Sweet whisk you back almost 100 years to 1920s Britain - the era of the grand 'picture palaces' and the creative peak of silent cinema. This was the decade that saw the young Hitchcock establish himself as an innovative and ambitious filmmaker, honing his craft over the course of ten strikingly confident silent films.