The Göttingen Studios were

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located in the German city of

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.Noack p.307 The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an

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on the outskirts of Göttingen.Imhoof p.187 The studios were founded by the

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producers Hans Abich and

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. Control of the studios soon expanded, and most of the films produced there were distributed by Deutsch Film Hansa. The city benefited by being comparatively lightly hit by Allied bombing during the

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. It was part of shift of film production out of

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, previously the dominant centre of German production, following the war and subsequent

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. It was the fourth largest centre of production in

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behind

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and

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, with nearly a hundred feature films produced there in a decade. In 1961 when film production ceased at the site, it passed to the

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. Later control transferred to the

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company

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References

Bibliography

* Imhoof, David. ''Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen Between the World Wars''. University of Michigan Press, 2013. * Meier, Gustav. ''Filmstadt Göttingen: Bilder für eine neue Welt? : zur Geschichte der Göttinger Spielfilmproduktion 1945 bis 1961''. Reichold, 1996. * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. German film studios {{film-studio-stub