The Elstree Project

The oral history project celebrating Elstree & Borehamwood's history in Film & TV. 70+ interviews which we plan to share for free, forever. Run by @howardberry

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Walter Murch will be taking part in a Q&A after this special 70mm screening of Return To Oz, with official historian of @ElstreeStudios Howard Berry. Don’t miss this great Elstree film in this beautiful presentation at @ThePCCLondon.

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

🚨WALTER MURCH RETURNS TO THE PCC FOR BLEAK WEEK🚨

Our originally planned BLEAK WEEK screenings of RETURN TO OZ & APOCALYPSE NOW will now both feature Walter Murch in attendance!

RETURN TO OZ w/ a post-film Q&A
APOCALYPSE NOW w/ a pre-film INTRO

🎟️https://t.co/dEetfzcKpL

[Elstree Studios @ElstreeStudios]

Stages 7,8 & 9 under construction circa 1965

Before they became home to Jabba the Hutt’s throne room or “Here’s Johnny!” 🪓

#tbt #ElstreeStudios

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Did you hear us on BBC Radio 2 news today? We were talking about the lost ATV Muppet mural!

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Our search for photos of the lost muppet mural at ATV has made it to BBC News!

[BBC East @BBCLookEast]

Historian makes plea over missing Muppet mural https://t.co/pxpMghGC0Z

[Cult Edge @cult_edge]

Cold, dull and rainy January morning. Felt like a good time to watch Sapphire & Steel. ‘The Railway Station’ is the best television ghost story ever made. No notes. Perfection. It’s not celebrated nearly enough. Surely S&S is about due for the deluxe blu ray treatment. #culttv

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Here’s a link to the music video: https://t.co/1P2YJzGciU

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As a teenager growing up in the north-east, Trevor Horn knew of Elstree long before he ever visited. It was a name he'd seen in film and TV credits, and imagined as “our own Hollywood”. He saw it as a distant, almost mythical place where the best films and television were made.

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A place that had lived in his imagination since childhood was, at last, experienced from the inside. We were so proud to bring Trevor to Elstree and to have him share his memories with our project.

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@MaverickImmobi1 @montebama @KubrickPoint They are not screenshots. They are scans of 35mm from the head of the prints in the editorial binder from the film, which are now in the Kubrick Archive. Lee Unkrich scanned them while I was there with him.

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Tickets for the BFI screening on 31 January are available via their website: https://t.co/4ye7xRkQqo
[Stills © StudioCanal]
(We are not affiliated with the BFI and earn no commission on tickets sold for this screening).

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On 31 January, the @BFI will screen Elstree Calling — a film that sits right at the beginning of British sound cinema, and one that tells us a great deal about Elstree’s ambitions at the dawn of the talkies.

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It shows Elstree positioning itself as a technically adventurous studio, grappling simultaneously with sound, colour, format and the future of broadcasting, and laying foundations for the British studio system that would follow.