Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60.

Project Information

STUDIOTEC

Grant agreement ID: 832346

DOI

10.3030/832346

Project closed

EC signature date 4 June 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 498 965,00

EU contribution

€ 2 498 965,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

A Leap into the Dark: Ufa’s Tonkreuz, Germany’s First Dedicated Sound Film Studio

Author(s): Eleanor Halsall
Published in: Architectural Histories, Issue Vol 12 Issue 1 2024, 2024, ISSN 2050-5833
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/ah.10407

Death in Filmland: British Film Studios and 1930s Detective Fiction

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Journal of British Cinema and Television, Issue 22, 2025, Page(s) 342-363, ISSN 1743-4521
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2025.0776

L'acteur: un travailleur des studios comme un autre? Place des acteurs dans le système des studios français des années 1930

Author(s): Morgan Lefeuvre
Published in: Création Collective au Cinema, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 19-38, ISSN 2780-0288
Publisher: Création Collective au Cinema

The Prudential Group Archive: Alexander Korda, London Film Productions and Denham Studios

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Journal of British Cinema and Television, Issue 17434521, 2022, Page(s) 447-469, ISSN 1743-4521
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2022.0642

On Method Building: A Half-Century of Research on Gender and Labour in the Italian Audiovisual Industries

Author(s): Rosa Barotsi, Gloria Dagnino, Carla Mereu Keating
Published in: Communication Sociali Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies, Issue Three issues a year, 2023, ISSN 1827-7969
Publisher: Vita e Pensiero
DOI: 10.26350/001200_000180

Designing the ideal film studio in Britain

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Screen, Issue 62/3, 2021, Page(s) 330-358, ISSN 0036-9543
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjab034

All the inside 'dope': Studio Relay and Textual Analysis

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Screen, Issue 65:4, 2024, Page(s) 472-500, ISSN 1460-2474
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjae036

The English Hollywood that wasn't: shadow history and Esher's unbuilt film studios

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2022, ISSN 1465-3451
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2022.2091262

Bringing 'the whole world on to the British screen: Back Projection and British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2022, Page(s) 295-324, ISSN 1755-1714
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2022.0628

Clear for Action: Fog in UK Film Studios

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: CIBSE Journal (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), Issue March 2022, 2022, Page(s) 42-3, ISSN 1759-846X
Publisher: Cambridge Publishers Ltd

Meteorology and British film studios: an article of the London fog

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0143-9685
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2021.1922033

‘The “Centre of World Cinema”. The Roman-ness of Film Production between Decentralising Plans and Internationalisation’,

Author(s): Carla Mereu Keating
Published in: L'avventura, International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes, Issue 6th monthly, 2023, Page(s) 53-72, ISSN 2421-6496
Publisher: Mulino
DOI: 10.17397/109028

Requisitioning film studios in wartime Britain

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2022, ISSN 1465-3451
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2022.2091266

The Spatiality of Film Production and the Politics of Urban Planning: Rome's Pioneering Film Studio Cines (1905-37)

Author(s): Carla Mereu Keating
Published in: Film History, Issue vol. 33 no. 3, 2021, 2021, Page(s) 37-65, ISSN 0892-2160
Publisher: Indiana University Press

‘“Bridal Outfits from the Heart of Filmland!”: Clothes Rationing, Wartime Film Production and Gainsborough’.

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Journal of British Cinema and Television, Issue vol. 21, no. 2, 2024, Page(s) 215-38, ISSN 1743-4521
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2024.0714

This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of working in British film studios in the 1930s and 1940s

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 1465-3451
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2025.2478532

Cutting their cloth, counting their coupons: clothes rationing and British film production in the 1940s

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Screen, Issue vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1460-2474
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjae007

Requiem for a Film Studio: The Death and Afterlife of Denham

Author(s): Richard Farmer
Published in: Industrial Archaeology Review, 2025, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0309-0728
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/03090728.2025.2491334

Book chapters (4)

Acoustic Insulation: Italian Film Studios' Material Transition to Sound

Author(s): Carla Mereu Keating
Published in: Retuning the Screen: Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History, 2021, Page(s) 95-105
Publisher: Gorizia Film Forum

An epistolary history of Indo-German film relations

Author(s): Eleanor Halsall
Published in: The Bombay Talkies Limited: Akteure - deutsche Einflüsse - kulturhistorischer Kontext, 2021, Page(s) 137-172
Publisher: Utzverlag

Emil Schünemann: ein 'früher bestbewährter Kameramann'

Author(s): Eleanor Halsall
Published in: Die Kamera Im Fokus: Von Der Gekurbelten Zur Digitalen Filmkunst in Der Deutschen Kinematografie, 2024, Page(s) 1-14
Publisher: Cinegraf

Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: n the Studio: Visual Creation and its Material Environments (Ed. Brian R. Jacobson), 2020, Page(s) 103-121, ISBN 9780520297609
Publisher: University of California Press

Monographic books (1)

Pinewood: Anatomy of a Film Studio in Post-war Britain

Author(s): Sarah Street
Published in: Macmillan Palgrave Pivot book series, 2024, Page(s) i-viii, 1-183, ISBN 978-3-031-51307-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51307-7