Isleworth Studios
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Isleworth Studios originally started life as an Odeon Cinema in March 1935. Influenced by the Bauhaus this building has a Germanic style and was designed by George Coles. It was closed in 1957 due to a lack of customers thanks to the rise in popularity of television. The cinema was then gutted and converted to a film studio. Whilst being known as Isleworth Studios, the original Odeon sign was visible up until the early 1990s.
The film studio mainly concentrated on commercial advertising films but was also the studio for a few noteworthy films, for example The African Queen and The Italian Job. The studios finally ceased operations at the building in 2001 and the auditorium section was taken down the following year. Though the building it not listed, given the interior design was stripped when it became a studio, it was part of an English Heritage exhibition in 1996 marking the centenary of the cinema as a building type.
Since 2003, the building has been incorporated into a new block of flats which occupy the land where the auditorium once stood.
Films Produced:
- UNDER THE DOCTOR (1976)
- ONCE YOU KISS A STRANGER (1969)
- The ITALIAN JOB (1969)
- CURTAIN UP (1952)
- The AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
Images:
- The Odeon 1935 :http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/148782161_635b897156_o.jpg
- Odeon Parade 2005 :http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/97946230_ecc034ec79_b.jpg
