GREAT FILM DRIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 13

GREAT FILM DRIVE.

TELEVISION START. GOING TO "ALL COLOUR." (Special. —By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 29. Tlio first film studios in the world designed to anticipate the exhibition of films by television will be those to be built within the next six months at Denham, Buckinghamshire, as the permanent homo of London Film Productions. This is part of a £1,000,000 scheme for British film development, which involves the creation of two entirely new centres and inipoitant additions to three existing studios. At Denham, 011 a site of 170 acres of landscape and garden, 2 5 acres will he devoted to the studios, which will be the largest and most complete in Europe, capable of producing 24 films of woild quality every year. Thero will bo at least six stages, and it is estimated that the scheme will represent an investment of £450,000. The second new building, on a site of 180 acres at Ivor, Buckinghamshire, will be the home of British National Films and of other independent producers. Its anticipated cost is £300,000, and the studio*, which will have five stages, will be specially designed to meet the introduction of colour, which film producers believe may become at any moment as essential as dialogue.