London Films

{{Short description|British film and television production company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = London Films

| industry = production

| founded = 1932

| founder = Alexander Korda

| hq_location = Buckinghamshire

}}

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London Films Productions is a British film and television production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda and from 1936 based at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire, near London. The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Things to Come (1936), Rembrandt (1936), and The Four Feathers (1939). The facility at Denham was taken over in 1939 by Rank and merged with Pinewood to form D & P Studios. The outbreak of war necessitated that The Thief of Bagdad (1940) be completed in California, although Korda's handful of American-made films still displayed Big Ben as their opening corporate logo.Kulik, Karol Alexander Korda:The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990. {{ISBN|9780870003356}}

After a restructuring of Korda's UK operations in the late 1940s, London Films were made at Shepperton. One of these was The Third Man (1949). The company's film The Sound Barrier (1952) won the Academy Award for Best Sound.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953 |title=The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners |access-date=20 August 2011|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}

More than 40 years after Korda died in January 1956, the company returned to active film-making in 1997 with Morgan Mason as the chief executive.Dawtrey, Adam and Rex Weiner. [https://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117435119.html?categoryid=38&cs=1 Mason on top of new London pix] Variety. 7 April 1997. Retrieved 25 August 2007. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026091407/http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117435119.html?categoryid=38&cs=1 |date=26 October 2007 }}