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360° toursStep inside spaces preserved in three dimensions.
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A moment in studio history
On This Day
6 November1933
On this date
- 1933
Consolidated Film Studios takes over Whitehall
Consolidated Film Studios is registered by J .V. Bryson (former head of Paramount British) and Laurence Evans as a private company with a nominal capital of £55,000. This new company took over the lease to Whitehall Studios, next to Elstree station, which had belonged to the bankrupt Audible Filmcraft/Whitehall Films
Whitehall Studios