Film studios are architectural spaces designed to support every stage in a film’s production, yet they’ve rarely featured as the subject of extensive analysis compared with film movements, directors and the genres of popular cinema. This presentation is from a research project that investigated film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy 1930-60, when cinema dominated mass entertainment.

Film expert Howard Berry will take the audience behind-the-scenes of the legendary Elstree studios. Featuring oral histories of production staff who ‘made’ the studio: from carpenters to set-designers, floor managers to camera operators.