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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. Gainsborough Studios were active between 1924 and 1951. The company was initially based at Islington Studios which were built as a power station for the Great Northern & City Railway it was later converted to studios. Other films were made at Lime Grove and Pinewood Studios. The former Islington studios were demolished in 2002 and flats built on the site in 2004. A London Borough of Hackney historical plaque is attached to the building. The studio is best remembered for the Gainsborough melodramas it produced in the 1940s.
Gainsborough was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon and was a sister company to the Gaumont British from 1927, with Balcon as Director of Production for both studios. Whilst Gaumont-British, based at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush produced the 'quality' pictures, Gainsborough mainly produced 'B' movies and melodramas at its Islington Studios. Both studios used continental film practices, especially those from Germany, with Alfred Hitchcock being encouraged by Balcon—who had links with UFA—to study there and make multilingual co-production films with UFA, before the war. In the 1930s, actors Elisabeth Bergner and Conrad Veidt, art director Alfred Junge, cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum and screenwriter/director Berthold Viertel, along with others, joined the two studios.
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The Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures during the 1940s which conformed to a melodramatic style. The melodramas were not a film series but an unrelated sequence of films which had similar themes and frequently recurring actors who played similar characters in each. The popularity of the films with audiences peaked in the immediate post-war years, but production of such films lasted until the end of Gainsborough in 1949. The success of the films led to other British producers releasing similarly-themed works such as The Seventh Veil, Idol of Paris and Pink String and Sealing Wax.
The first film in the sequence was the The Man in Grey (based on a novel of the same name) which proved to be a major success on its release in 1943. This led to a number of similar pictures being made often based on melodramatic period novels. The films dominated the British box office, out-grossing top Hollywood productions and breaking a number of records. A large element of their appeal was their overt escapism at a time when the Second World War was still being fought.
The opening logo for Gainsborough Pictures, 1926-48 (I think). This one is for Caravan (1946), starring Stewart Granger, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent and Dennis Price. One of the famous "Gainsborough Melodramas".
=PLEASE SUBSCRIBE= http://www.youtube.com/user/papadoc73?sub_confirmation=1 Stay current with our most recent uploads & updates CHANNEL3YOUTUBE The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British comic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty.[1] Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, and the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old woman's disappearance. The fil...
An opening logo/ident for Gainsborough Pictures, a British movie company. Taken from "The Ghost Train" (a B-Movie). I know this has been uploaded before, but it's such a nice upload and my copy is very good.
The Gainsborough Melodramas were extremely popular in Britain during WWII and were usually sentimental or sensational dramatic films. They are definitely a product of their time, and launched the careers of later Hollywood stars James Mason and Stewart Granger. My favourites of the melodramas are Love Story and Madonna of the Seven Moons.
The oldest example I've yet seen - is this Glennis Lorimer? Taken from A Night In Montmatre (1931).
http://www.setthings.com/ This musical comedy is set on a mysterious island where scantily clad warrior women hold all the power and men are regarded as disposable beings useful only for breeding purposes. Comic scenes result when four airmen bail out of doomed airplane and parachute to a remote island. The island is ruled by Amazon type women and men are considered dispossable and only useful for breeding purposes. Directed by Val Guest Produced by Edward Black Written by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest Starring Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves Music by Louis Levy Cinematography Phil Grindrod Edited by R.E. Dearing Production company: Gainsborough Pictures Distributed by General Film Distributors Release dates: 20 March 1944 Running time: 72 minutes Country United Kingdom Language Eng...
An assortment of history. Mostly 18th century British, possibly. A poster of historical locations in England. Camera sweeps across a road with a red double decker bus, onto a tube map (London underground). Paintings of rowdy men. Expensive rooms in a palace. Thomas Gainsborough painting of Mary Countess of Howe in Kenwood House, London (?). Syon House interior and décor, Robert Adam architect. Painted china statuettes of women. Writings/spoken word of James Cook over paintings of ships and the sea.
The Falmouth Art Gallery allows you to discover masterpieces by Thomas Gainsborough, Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings, John Singer Sargent, Henry Scott Tuke, Charles Napier Hemy and George Frederick Watts alongside pictures by contemporary artists such as Naomi Frears and Trevor Bell. The Art Gallery's most famous painting is The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, which is known throughout the world. Published by Falmouth Art Gallery and Visit Cornwall Producer: SoundView Media
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Political events in Europe - the slow triumph of fascism, which eventually led to World War II - were also focusing the minds of American filmmakers on the possibilities of the cinematic medium, and its inherent dangers. In the 40s, then, Hollywood was in a state of creative tension, suspended between propaganda and political education, between realism and escapism. In many films, the war and the Depression seem to have written an almost subliminal subtext. Sometimes, indeed, the angst became explicit, as in the pessimistic thrillers that still epitomize the Hollywood of the 40s. We are referring, of course, to what we now know as film noir. 50. Bathing Beauty - George Sidney 49. Munchhausen - Josef Von Baky 48. Green For Danger - Sidney Gilliat 47. Woman Of The Year - George Stevens...
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