Southall Studios was a

film studio A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own privately owned studio facility or facilities that are used to make films, which is handled by the production ...

located in Southall, Middlesex (now west London) which operated between 1924 and 1958. The studio was constructed on the site of a former aircraft hangar by the silent film director and producer

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. The original buildings were destroyed in a fire in 1936, but the studio was rebuilt. Following the First World War, the studio was used for feature film production under the overall control of

John Grierson John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Fla ...

. Later, it was used for television programmes such as '' Colonel March of Scotland Yard'' broadcast in 1955 and 1956.

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produced several films such as '' Kill Me Tomorrow'' at Southall during the 1950s, with the feature film '' The Crawling Eye'', based on ''The Trollenberg Terror'' TV series, being the last film released credited with the Southall name.

External links

Southall Film Studios

Southall Studios
at britmovie.co.uk

References

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