Denham Film Studios - Definition

Denham Film Studios were a British film production studios operating from 1936 to 1952.

The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a huge 165-acre site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility of its kind in the UK. It was eventually merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios, and was closed in 1952. The site has subsequently been demolished.

Selected films

Made on the site during construction:

• The Ghost Goes West (1935)
• Things to Come (1936)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

The first film to be made at the studio proper was Southern Roses (1936). Others included:

• Knight Without Armour (1937)
• Korda's Rembrandt (1936)
• A Yank at Oxford (1937)
• South Riding (1938)
• Thief of Bagdad (1940) - partly made at Denham.
• Noel Coward's In Which We Serve (1942)
• Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• Part of David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945).

The last film to be made at Denham was Disney's Robin Hood (1952).

External links

• Denham Film Studios (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/460162/) at screenonline.org.uk