ENORMOUS STUDIOS FOR LONDON FILMS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 16

ENORMOUS STUDIOS FOR LONDON FILMS

THE world's finest motion picture A studios, which Alexander Korda is having built at Denham, not far from Loudon, as the permanent 'home of London Films, are virtually completed.

.Jack Okey, one of Hollywood’s foremost authorities on studio construction. has been at work on the project for the past eight months, enlisting his own experience and that of the American film capital toward the creation of the world’s most complete and most highly adaptable film-making establishment' Okey has built some of America’s loading motion picture studios, among them those of Paramount and Warner Brothers.

Korda’s studio at Denham will not only be the most modern in the world, ami the only one of its size specially built for sound and colour pictures, but it will also be a complete community in itself. Nearly everything needed for the production of films on a large scale will be created within the walls of the studio. Power, heat and light will all be generated on the premises. Carpentry, plastering and property departments are being arranged so that their output can be fed directly to the numerous stages. Cutting' rooms, a foundry, a blacksmith's shop, projection theatres and laboratories will make possible the entire processing of films within the studio premises. Dressing room, rest and recreational facilities for over five hundred performers have been provided. Access from these housing facilities to the stages has all been placed under cover, a long step ahead in the protection of make-up and costumes.