The Esher Studios were a British
film studio located in
Esher
Esher ( ) is a town in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole.
Esher is an outlying suburb of London near the London-Surrey Border, and with Esher Commons at its southern end, the town marks one limit of the Greater London Built-Up ...
in
Surrey. The studios opened in 1913 during the
silent era.
[Warren p.89] The studios were built by a company that included the director
Warwick Buckland
Warwick Buckland (1863–1945) was a British stage actor. He later became a film actor and director. He directed the 1915 crime film '' After Dark''.Goble p.49 Buckland also worked as an art director, designing the sets for the epic ''Barnaby R ...
, but the failure of their films led to the sale of the site to
Walter West's
Broadwest
Broadwest or the Broadwest Film Company was a British film production company of the silent era. Its name it a portmanteau of its two founders, George Broadbridge and the film director Walter West. West took an active role in the company's pr ...
. Broadwest later switched most of its filming to
Walthamstow Studios
Walthamstow Studios was a British film studio located in Walthamstow, London which operated between 1914 and 1930. Two earlier studios had previously existed in Walthamstow. It was the base of Broadwest films for a number of years, which also u ...
. The studios continued to be used occasionally by independent
filmmakers
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...
into the 1920s.
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
* Warren, Patricia. ''British Film Studios: An Illustrated History''. Batsford, 2001.
British film studios
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