WEMBLEY PURCHASED
PLANS OF PRODUCTION
ANSWER TO CHALLENGE
■' (A.P.A. and "Sun.") (Received 16th June, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, 15th June.
: British Incorporated Pictures has bought for £147,500; thirty-five acres of the Wembley Exhibition, including the Palace of Engineering, the hall, the lake, half Kingsway, with the neighbouring gardens, the North Entrance Building and the Exhibition Bank.- .- ■> .-■;.. v '■■ .
Mr. Balph Pugh, the managing director, says that the Palace of Engineering fi the largest covered concrete building in the world, and will constitute the world's largest film studio. Thirty film-shooting spaces are available simultanously. Outdoor scenes may be filmed in the lake gardens, with a possibility of producing 150 films yearly, which is Britain's answer to others' ■challenge. Filming begins in January. Mr. Pugh adds that one of Wembley \ greatest assets is its publicity value, as dt ia known the world wide, awakening'memories and associations. - ~.. '■. ■■/. .■' * ■ ■ . ?
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 11
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142WEMBLEY PURCHASED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 11
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