Pinewood: The Story of an Iconic Studio
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For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: ‘Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England’. From hosting super spies and superheroes, Pinewood has been home to a galaxy far, far away, helping create the movies that have made audiences laugh and cry in equal measure. Some of the most glittering careers on both sides of the camera have been launched behind the iconic gates of Pinewood.
From James Bond to Star Wars, the modern age of Marvel and the re-imagining of the Disney classics, Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios have played host to the greatest and most cherished movies of all time. Complete with many exclusive behind-the-scenes images from those classic movies, this beautiful new book offers insight, anecdotes and interviews with some of the producers, directors and acting talent who have worked at the studios, including Ridley Scott, Barbara Broccoli, Tim Burton and Sir Roger Moore.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Preface Publishing (8 Dec. 2016) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 376 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9781848094864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1848094864 |
| Dimensions | 26.04 x 3.56 x 29.85 cm |
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lovely book
by Our Man In Bucks
First of all, it should be made clearer this is a book that covers both Pinewood and Shepperton studios. It intertwines their stories. A good thing? Well, visually yes, but ultimately it dilutes both their individual stories into more of potted histories – thereby never getting under the skin of either studio.
Photographs are definitely the selling point. Though some are incorrectly captioned as studio sets, when they are clearly real location images (such as on The Man With The Golden Gun and Nuns On The Nun – two examples).
The first 50 pages and last 20 are about what’s going on today and in the last few years – very much a glossy sales brochure in that respect, and feeling quite corporate in the way it was written.
Many important films are given the briefest of mentions – The Third Man, A Night To Remember. There isn’t even a single mention of Rank’s most famous and enduring production, Genevieve. And one of Shepperton’s most famous, The Guns Of Navarone isn’t even hinted at. Nor is there any mention of Worton Hall Studios in Isleworth which was Shepperton’s sister studio where films such as African Queen were made.
Comedies such as Norman Wisdom, the Doctor films and (to some degree) the Carry Ons are dealt with very briefly, yet they were a mainstay of the studio for two decades.
It’s a visually pleasing book, but light on behind the scenes stories and without a filmography – which could have covered some of the glaring exclusions. There are less than 20 interviewees credited in the appendix (when studio staff are excluded) which seems somewhat “light” in trying to cover 80 years of film-makers at the studios.
by Harry Ferris
If you love the British film industry then this book is a must.
Beautiful pictures, well written and very informative.
Worth every penny of the £26 I paid for it.
by J C J Walton
First class!
by Mrs T Spivey
Fantastic book. Full of information and photos.
by T. W. Frost
Great book if you are interested in films and film studios
by Radders
Great book. Really interesting and good value
by Marion Southgate
Brought as an 18th birthday present.