Cricklewood Studios
{{Short description|British film studios from 1920 to 1938}}
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| alternate_names = Stoll Film Studios
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| address = Stoll Close,
Cricklewood,
London
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- Oswald Stoll (1920-1938)
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| inauguration_date = {{start date|1920}}
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File:ManagIng director and film directors of Stoll Pictures in London, 1920.jpg, Maurice Elvey, René Plaissetty. Seated: F. Martin Thornton, Jeffrey Bernerd (managing director), Sinclair Hill.]]
Cricklewood Studios, also known as the Stoll Film Studios, were British film studios located in Cricklewood, London which operated from 1920 to 1938.{{cite book|last1=Snow|first1=Len|title=Willesden Past|date=1994|publisher=Phillimore & Co|location=Chichester|isbn=0850339030|page=99|quote=In 1921, Sir Oswald Stoll formed a company for picture production using studios in Temple Road, Cricklewood}} Run by Sir Oswald Stoll as the principal base for his newly formed Stoll Pictures, which also operated Surbiton Studios,Warren p.22 the studio was the largest in the British Isles at that time. It was later used for the production of "quota quickies" (to meet the requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927). In 1938, the studios were sold off for non-film use.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
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Fictional studios
Cricklewood Greats was a 2012 spoof documentary created by Peter Capaldi for BBC Four, about a different and entirely fictional film production company, also set in Cricklewood, which he called Cricklewood Film Studios.{{cite news|last1=Rees|first1=Jasper|title=Peter Capaldi on Cricklewood Greats, interview|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9057696/Peter-Capaldi-on-Cricklewood-Greats-interview.html|accessdate=28 September 2014|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=3 February 2012}}
See also
References
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Bibliography
- Warren, Patricia. British Film Studios: An Illustrated History. Batsford, 2001.
Category:Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Barnet
Category:Film production companies of the United Kingdom
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