J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
Sky Studios have scene dock doors which open out onto a scene dock. There are also a number of non-conventional studios located elsewhere in the building. There are eight production galleries on the ground floor alongside the conventional studios, with separate sound control rooms alongside each gallery. Any studio can be controlled from any gallery. "Sky Sports News" is controlled by Gallery 6. "Sky News" have a new gallery facility located on the second floor, alongside Studio 22. Both studios share a covered scene dock but have separate production galleries. Studio F's gallery is located up a gantry from the studio floor,