Film making goes cold
By Gerry Healy
1972Gerry HealyCulture and reviews Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
LECTURES THE THEO PRACTICE given by (SLL national London Nature of the capitalist Sunday October 1 Historical materialism Sunday October 8 EAST HAM TOWN HALL Lister Room Barking Rd, Liverpool Tuesday October 3 MUNICIPAL ANNEXE Dale Street, Liverpoo 7.30 p.m. THE FUTURE of Britain's two remaining film studios is threatened. A portion of MGM's Borehamwood studio at Elstree has just been hived off for a cold storage project and British Lion's Shepperton Studio is awaiting the plans of asset-stripper John Bentley.
Allied London Properties, who bought the 119-acre complex /at Elstree 20 months ago, is to sell 19 acres to Christian Salvesen. ning permission to rect ritallargest cold storage depot, covering 500,000 square feet.
In a statement issued today the National Film Finance Corporation, a government body to aid independent film production, said discussions with British Lion were continuing 'to endeavour to find a satisfactory solution to the problem, which all parties are agreed must be in the best interests of the industry ard its employees'.
Millionaire John Bentley, who has earned the title of Britain's No 1 asset-stripper, bought British Lion earlier this year thus precipatating a crisis over the studio's future.
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