Denham Film Studios
The Denham Film Studios in Denham in London was a British film production studio and were greeted by Alexander Korda founded. Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry had designed the building.
history
The film studios were operated from 1936 to 1952 and consisted of seven huge studio halls on a 67- hectare property. The recording devices represented a value of 40,000 pounds sterling , the light consumption corresponded to a city with 100,000 inhabitants, the weekly requirement for raw film averaged 350,000 meters and the permanent staff comprised 1,500 people. These were served by 28 cooks who prepared 5,000 meals a day.
Mainly the films by Alexander Korda from Film Productions Ltd. were shown in the studio. manufactured or rented to British and American companies.
In the late 1930s, J. Arthur Rank took over Denham Film and Pinewood Studios . In the 1960s and 1970s, Rank Xerox's offices and studios were used as warehouses.
The buildings were demolished in 1980 and the site was redesigned as an industrial park. In 2007 the area was redesigned again and luxury apartments and houses built on it. The laboratory designed by Walter Gropius was retained, however.
literature
- Otto Behrens: New Films in Denham. English production in the world's modern film studios. In: Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland. Lichtspieltheater-Verband, German and Italian Switzerland , vol. 3, issue 51, 1937, p. 5. ( digitized version )