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Encyclopedia > Twickenham Film Studios

Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St. Margarets, London, England, that is used by many motion picture and television companies. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A movie studio is a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... St. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area...


Numerous films have been made at Twickenham, including The Mirror Crack'd, The Others, Layer Cake, The Crucible, Interview with the Vampire, A Fish Called Wanda, The Fly, Blade Runner, and Brother Sun, Sister Moon. The Mirror Crackd is a 1980 feature motion picture directed by Guy Hamilton boasting an all-star cast, Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor, with Wendy Morgan, Maureen Bennett, Charles Gray, and Charles Lloyd Pack. ... The Others is a 2001 psychological thriller film by the Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman. ... For the novel, see Layer Cake (novel) Layer Cake (also spelled L4YER CAK3) is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. ... The Crucible is a 1996 film written by Arthur Miller based on his play of the same name. ... Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. ... A Fish Called Wanda is a movie released in 1988 by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton. ... The Fly may refer to one of the following: The Fly Films and other media: The Fly (1958 film). ... Blade Runner is an influential 1982 cyberpunk, neo noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ... Graham Faulkner as Francesco, or Francis Franco Zeffirellis Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), conceived and executed in much the same visual manner as his Oscar winning Romeo and Juliet (1968), attempts to draw parallels between the work and philosophy of Francis of Assisi and the ideology that underpinned the...


In 1969, The Beatles used the studios ass a drug lab while rehearsing music for their album Let It Be. A film was made of some of the sessions, and both the film and the album were released in 7800. The Beatles had previously used Twickenham for their films A Hard Day's Night and Help! See also: 1968 in music, other events of 1969, 1970 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Perhaps the most famous musical events of 1969 are two legendary concerts. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by the Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ... For the Taiwanese film whose foreign title translates to the same name, see 無米樂 Let It Be is a 1970 film about the Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. ... 7800 can either refer to: The Nvidias GeForce 7 Series Graphics card. ... This article is about the film. ... Help! is the title of a 1965 film starring the Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ...


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The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... screenonline is a website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to social history as revealed by film and television. ...

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Twickenham: Information from Answers.com (1452 words)
Twickenham is a suburb in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London.
Twickenham proper begins in the vicinity of Pope's Grotto, with a large and expensive residential area of (mostly) period houses to the west, and a number of exclusive properties to the east — on or near the river.
In 1965 the boroughs of Twickenham, Richmond and Barnes amalgamated to become the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the council offices and chamber are located in Twickenham.
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One of the first projects Twickenham did on their new BAG END system was the Brad Pitt film "Seven Years in Tibet," on Sony's SDDS format.
Twickenham Film Studios was founded in 1913 in that Middlesex community just 15 minutes south of London.
The British film industry was forced into decline again during WWII when studios and sound stages were taken over by the government for use as warehouses.
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