Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios, located in Shepperton, Surrey, England is a film studio with a long history of film making. Film history began at Shepperton Studios in 1931, when Norman Loudon, a dynamic Scottish businessman, bought Littleton Park with its surrounding 60 acre (240,000 m²) grounds, which included a beautiful stretch of the River Ash at Shepperton. Loudon was new to the film industry, but he had had a prosperous camera business, Flicker Productions, which manufactured 'flicker' books. Littleton Park seemed ideal when Loudon decided the next step was to enter sound film production, and a new company, Sound City Film Producing & Recording Studios, was founded in 1932. By the end of the year Sound City had produced three shorts for MGM and two features, Watch Beverley (1932) and Reunion (1932). By the end of 1934, demand for Sound City facilities necessitated substantial expansion. In 1936, after a short period of closure for modernisation, the studios reopened with seven sound... full article at wikipedia