Ealing Studios
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Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since. It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world, and the current stages were opened for the use of sound in 1931. It is best known for a series of classic films produced in the post-WWII years, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955). The BBC owned and filmed at the Studios for forty years from 1955 until 1995. Since 2000, Ealing Studios has resumed releasing films under its own name, including the revived St Trinian's franchise. In the past decade, films shot here include The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and Shaun Of The Dead (2004). The Metropolitan Film School of London operates on the lot.
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Ealing Studios films
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BBC TV productions
- Colditz (inserts only; programme was predominantly videotaped)
- Doctor Who (inserts only; programme was predominantly videotaped)
- Fortunes of War
- Quatermass and the Pit (inserts only; programme was otherwise live)
- The Singing Detective
- An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
Later films
- An Ideal Husband (1999)
- Notting Hill (1999)
- A Christmas Carol (1999)
- Lucky Break (2001)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Valiant (2005)
- I Want Candy (2007)
- St Trinian's (2007)
- St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
- Dorian Gray (2009)
- Burke and Hare (2010)
Independent TV
- The Royle Family (Granada)
- Bedtime (Hat Trick Productions)
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (Ghost)
- Emma Brody (20th Century Fox)
- Downton Abbey - "Downstairs" scenes only (Carnival Films)
Music videos
- Walk Away by Franz Ferdinand
- Talk by Coldplay
- The Drowners by Suede (US video only)
- Crazy Beat by Blur
- The Moment You Believe by Melanie C