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documentaries, was the major figure at the studios. Welwyn was one of the pioneer studios in Britain - it produced one of the first British sound films, claimed to use the first back-projection shot - in
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Welwyn Garden City, anxious to develop the town with home industries, had initially approached A.E Bundy, who had bought British Instructional Films, from Sir
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and the adjacent main-line railway were amongst the distractions. Of the 194 employees in 1950, 46 transferred to
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for British Instructional Films, and he was an artist who had been given his first chance at Welwyn studios.
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shortly afterwards. The studios were later taken over by British International Pictures (from 1933, the
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as well as an overflow facility for the main complex at
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Entertainment
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
British
film studio
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
British Instructional Films
sound films
Associated British Picture Corporation
supporting features
Elstree Studios
independent companies
Oswald Stoll
Surbiton Studios
H. Bruce Woolfe
First World War
Tell England
Tell England
Gallipoli
Anthony Asquith
The Night Has Eyes
Queen of Spades
Night Boat to Dublin
Quiet Weekend
Cairo Road
Eric Portman
No Place For Jennifer
Leo Genn
Last Holiday (1950 film)

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