Isleworth Studios

Isleworth Studios

Isleworth Studios originally started life as an Odeon Cinema in March 1935. Influenced by the Bauhaus this building has a Germanic style and was designed by George Coles. It was closed in 1957 due to a lack of customers thanks to the rise in popularity of television. The cinema was then gutted and converted to a studio. Whilst being known as Isleworth Studios, the original Odeon sign was visible up until the early 1990s.

The studios finally ceased operations at the building in 2001 and the auditorium section was taken down the following year. Though the building it not listed, given the interior design was stripped when it became a studio, it was part of an English Heritage exhibition in 1996 marking the centenary of the cinema as a building type.

Since 2003, the building has been incorporated into a new block of flats which occupy the land where the auditorium once stood.

However, Isleworth Film Studios, also known as Worton Hall Studios were located in Worton Road, Isleworth and this film studio mainly concentrated on commercial advertising films but was also the studio for a few noteworthy films, for example "The African Queen" . After closing the premises was taken over by the National Coal Board as a Mining Research Establishment. However, it is now an Industrial Estate.

Films Produced:

*Under the Doctor (1976)
*Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
*The Italian Job (1969)
*Curtain Up (1952)
*The African Queen (1951)

External links

* [http://cinematreasures.org/theater/13838/ Cinema Treasures - Odeon Isleworth]
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/organisation/183611 BFI | Film & TV Database | Isleworth Studios]
* [http://www.homedesignawards.com/homebuilder/homebuilder_2004/Category_9/odeon_2004.htm The National HomeBuilder Design Awards - Odeon Parade, Middlesex]


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