the restoration by young British composer Daniel Patrick Cohen and it has been performed live with the film many times around the world. It has not been released on home video due to a lack of funds to properly record the score. The only official DVD release contains a poor quality edited version of the film by US collector Raymond Rohauer. Like Hitchcock's other British films, all of which are copyrighted worldwide, The Pleasure Garden has been heavily bootlegged on home video. At the end of 2021, The Pleasure Garden became the first Hitchcock film to enter the public domain in the United States but only in its non-restored, scoreless form. It will remain copyrighted in the rest of the world until the end of 2050. Significance According to critic Dave Kehr, The Pleasure Garden'''s opening scene stands like a virtual "clip reel of Hitchcock motifs to come". The first shot captures chorus girls descending a spiral staircase (see Vertigo); a man uses opera glasses to better appreciate a blonde chorus dancer (see Rear Window); and the same blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see Family Plot''). References External links The Pleasure Garden at the British Film Institute's Screenonline Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Pleasure Garden at Brenton Film 1925 films Films based on British novels Films directed by Alfred Hitchcock British black-and-white films British crime drama films British silent feature films Films produced by Erich Pommer 1925 crime drama films 1925 directorial debut films Films set in London Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1920s British films Silent drama films 1920s English-language films