Santa Claus, all 1 minute 16 seconds of it, was made in the UK in 1898 by George Albert Smith, who was a famed early filmmaker, projectionist, hypnotist and friend of French visual effects pioneer Georges Méliès. The BFI, who have published the film on YouTube as part of the BFI National Archive, has praised it […]
Propeller Stage One will be a new £500,000 facility in a former architecture studio. It will open next year and will be used for both student training and commercial film and television projects. Those that employ UoH students will be able to hire the studio at a significantly reduced rate The project’s prime mover is […]
With thanks to Jodi Nelson-Tabor for bringing our attention to the Time Out story on Linkedin This Autumn, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will open the doors of its 45,000 square foot Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center on the new 35-acre Industry City site on the Brooklyn waterfront. The facility occupies an […]
US property developer Hackman Capital Partners, which owns The Culver Studios in Los Angeles and Silvercup Studios in New York, has stepped in to build Dagenham Studios in East London after the original backers pulled out citing concerns over Brexit. £300m will be spent on developing the site over the next three years. Filming at […]
ExCel London in the Royal Docks near City Airport, which was most recently the home of the Nightingale hospital during thee height of the COVID-19 outbreak, is making around 1 million sq ft of space available to film and TV studio production companies until April 2021 ExCel’s halls, which are 33ft in height to their […]
Ashford Council has granted planning permission for Ashford International Studios, a new £240m ($300m) film studio on the site of the town’s former Newtown railway works. The complex is estimated to bring in £100 million ($125 million) a year into Ashford’s economy and around 2,000 full-time jobs. It will include four TV and film studios, […]