In 1920 he was appointed to design and illustrate silent movie titles and he soon made himself indispensable at the Islington studios, where he came under the influence of the director George Fitzmaurice, whose meticulous preparation, eye for detail, and storyboard planning clearly left their mark. Hearing that a film studio was to be opened in London by the Famous Players-Lasky Company, Hitchcock approached it with a portfolio of his artistic work.
The stories of Edgar Allan Poe intrigued him from an early age, and he was keen on American films, and in particular those of D. However, he was able to extend his artistic talents by attending night school courses in art and art history. Obliged to leave school at the age of fourteen, after his father's death, he found work as a draughtsman and advertising designer with the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company. Hitchcock was educated at various schools in London, including St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, a Jesuit school which, along with his own family's religious background, may have been to some extent responsible for the ' Catholic' themes of his films.
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