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Denham Studios
Denham Film Studios (''later dubbed Anvil Studios)'' was a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952, founded by Alexander Korda, in Buckinghamshire. Notable films made at Denham include ''Brief Encounter'' and David Lean's ''Great Expectations''. From the 1950s to the 1970s the studio became best known for recording film music, including the scores for Alfred Hitchcock's ''Vertigo'', ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', and ''Star Wars''. The studio buildings were demolished in 1981 and the site re-landscaped as a business park; as of 2017 it has been turned over to residential use. History The studios were founded by Alexander Korda in 1935, on a 165-acre (668,000 m2) site known as 'The Fisheries' near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire, and designed by architects Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry. At the time it was the largest facility of its kind in the UK. In 1937, Queen Mary visited the studios while '' The Drum'' was being filmed. In 1946, 'Stage One Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s, through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including clothing, fashion, and jewelry. Art Deco has influenced buildings from skyscrapers to cinemas, bridges, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects, including radios and vacuum cleaners. The name Art Deco came into use after the 1925 (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris. It has its origin in the bold geometric forms of the Vienna Secession and Cubism. From the outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bright colors of Fauvism and the Ballets Russes, and the exoticized styles of art from Chinese art, China, Japanese art, Japan, Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drum (1938 Film)
''The Drum'' (released in the U.S. as ''Drums'') is a 1938 British Technicolor film based on the 1937 novel '' The Drum'' by A. E. W. Mason. The film was directed by Zoltan Korda and produced by Alexander Korda. It stars Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey and David Tree. Korda’s company ''London Films'' made three films in the 1930s about the British Empire: ''Sanders of the River'' (1936), ''The Drum'' and '' The Four Feathers'' (1939). Plot During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works under cover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless Northwest Frontier of India, the modern day Afghanistan-Pakistan border (the Durand Line). He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To forestall this, the British governor signs a treaty with the friendly, peace-loving ruler of Tokot, a key kingdom in the region, which is described as four days' march northward from Peshawar. In real life the British held a fort at Abazai near this location, not far fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimpernel Smith
''Anagallis'' is a formerly recognized genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It had about 20–25 species, commonly called pimpernels. Molecular phylogenetic studies showed that ''Anagallis'' was embedded in the genus ''Lysimachia'', so its species were transferred to that genus. The scarlet pimpernel referred to in literature was part of this genus. Taxonomy The genus name ''Anagallis'' is from the Greek ( 'again') and ( 'to delight in'), and it refers to the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions. Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that as then circumscribed neither ''Anagallis'' nor the related genus ''Lysimachia'' were monophyletic. Accordingly in 2009, it was proposed to merge ''Anagallis'' (together with two other small genera) into ''Lysimachia''. Names in that genus were published for all ''Anagallis'' species. , the merger was accepted by Plants of the World Online, among other taxonomic databases. Some fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Howard (actor)
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.Obituary, '' Variety'', 9 June 1943. He wrote many stories and articles for ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', and '' Vanity Fair'' and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939). He had roles in many other films, including ''Berkeley Square'' (1933), '' Of Human Bondage'', '' The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (both 1934), '' The Petrified Forest'' (1936), '' Pygmalion'' (1938), '' Intermezzo'' (1939), '' "Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941), and ''The First of the Few'' (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for ''Berkeley Square'' and ''Pygmalion''. Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He helped to make anti-German propaganda and shore up support for the Allies; two years after his death, the ''British Film Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian-born British actress. Life and career Morris was the daughter of Australian-born Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She moved to Britain with her family as an infant, and her father died in an aircraft accident when she was three years old. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Morris made her debut in '' Lysistrata'' at the Gate Theatre, London in 1936. She performed with Leslie Howard in '' "Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) and Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing war movie '' Undercover'' (1943) as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama '' A for Andromeda'' (and its sequel, '' The Andromeda Breakthrough''), Queen Margaret in the BBC's '' An Age of Kings'' (a version of Shakespeare's History Plays), Lady Macbeth in the 1960 radio production of Macbeth, and Cleopa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denham Aerodrome
Denham Aerodrome is an operational general aviation aerodrome located east of Gerrards Cross, near Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. It also serves as an important reliever airport for Heathrow Airport and lies beneath its Class D airspace London CTR. VFR entry/exit points are at Maple Cross (CHT) and St Giles Church. Entry lanes and circuit height are at MSL. It has one paved runway, aligned 06/24, a parallel grass runway and another grass runway aligned 12/30. It also has substantial hangarage. Denham Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P646) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Bickertons Aerodromes Limited). History There are records that flying has been taking place at Denham Aerodrome since 1915, when during the First World War, RAF Denham was established as a flying training school for Flight Cadets. The airfield was first licensed as a private use airfield to Squadron Leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbestos
Asbestos ( ) is a group of naturally occurring, Toxicity, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals. There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous Crystal habit, crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into the atmosphere by Abrasion (mechanical), abrasion and other processes. Inhalation of asbestos fibres can lead to various dangerous lung conditions, including mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. As a result of these health effects, asbestos is considered a serious Health hazard, health and safety hazard. Archaeological studies have found evidence of asbestos being used as far back as the Stone Age to strengthen ceramic pots, but large-scale mining began at the end of the 19th century when manufacturers and builders began using asbestos for its desirable physical properties. Asbestos is an excellent Thermal insulation, thermal and In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Miles
Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the City of London since the 17th century. He was known for playing character roles that usually had bucolic backgrounds or links to countrymen. His strong accent was typical of rustic dialects associated with the counties of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. His pleasant rolling bass-baritone voice made him a regular presence on the stage and in films for more than fifty years. In addition to his acting, he was a voice-over artist and published author. Early life Miles was educated at Uxbridge County School, Pembroke College, Oxford, and the Northampton Institute (later City University of London) in London. He lived for a while in New Road, Hillingdon Heath. Career In 1946 his comedy about the Home Guard '' Let Tyrants Tremble!'' was staged at the Scala Theatre in the West End, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (1948 Film)
''Hamlet '' is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. ''Hamlet'' was Olivier's second film as director and the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 ''As You Like It'' had starred Olivier, but had been directed by Paul Czinner). ''Hamlet'' was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the first sound film of the play in English. Olivier's ''Hamlet'' is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. However, it proved controversial among Shakespearean purists, who felt that Olivier had made too many alterations and excisions to the four-hour play by cutting one-and-a-half-hours' worth of content. Milton Shulman wrote in ''The Evening Standard'': "To some it will be one of the greatest films ever made, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th Parallel (film)
''49th Parallel'' is a 1941 British war drama film, the third made by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as ''The Invaders''. Plot In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, German U-boat '' U-37'' sinks a Canadian freighter and then evades the RCN and RCAF by sailing into Hudson Bay. While a raiding party of six is ashore in search of food and fuel, the U-boat is sunk by RCAF bombers. The six survivors head for the neutral United States, led by Lieutenants Hirth and Kuhnecke. When a floatplane is dispatched to investigate reports of the sinking, the Germans open fire, killing the pilot and some of the local Inuit. They steal the aircraft but cannot achieve takeoff because they are overloaded. After a sailor is shot and killed by an Inuk, the load is light enough for takeoff. Heading south, the floatplane exhausts its fuel and crashes into a lake in Manitoba, killing Kuhnecke. The Germans are welcomed by a nearby Hutterite farming commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thief Of Bagdad (1940 Film)
''The Thief of Bagdad'' is a 1940 British Technicolor historical fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger (director), Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan, with additional contributions by William Cameron Menzies (who had designed sets for the The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film), original 1924 version starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr) and Korda brothers Vincent Korda, Vincent and Zoltán Korda, Zoltán. The film stars Indian-born teen actor Sabu Dastagir, Sabu, Conrad Veidt, John Justin, and June Duprez. It was released in the US and the UK by United Artists. Although produced by Alexander Korda's company London Films in London, the film was completed in California due to the outbreak of World War II. Georges Périnal, credited as George Perinal, won the Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Cinematography, Vincent Korda for Academy Award for Best Production Design, Art Direction, and Lawrence W. Butler and Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afs Film Actors- The Filming Of 'unpublished Story' At Denham Film Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, 1941 D4223
AFS is an initialism that may refer to: Computing * Andrew File System, a distributed networked file system ** OpenAFS, an open source implementation of the Andrew File System * Apple File Service, implementing the Apple Filing Protocol * Apple File System, Apple's proprietary file system * AtheOS File System, part of the Syllable operating system Education * AFS Intercultural Programs, formerly American Field Service * Abington Friends School, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States Military * Army Fire Service, UK * Air force station * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Combat Stores Ship (AFS) Organizations * Alternative for Sweden, a political party in Sweden * American Folklore Society * American Foundry Society * (AfS), a workgroup of the German National Library (DNB) * Association of Football Statisticians, UK * Australian Flag Society * Auxiliary Fire Service, UK and Ireland Places * Afs, Idlib, a Syrian village * Ashford railway station (Surrey) (station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
