Beaconsfield Film Studios in these studios, including: Several other films and TV shows are confirmed by IMDb as having been produced in the studios by other film production companies during that time: The studios are now exclusively the home of the National Film and Television School, whose alumni have won numerous BAFTA awards and Oscars. The NFS was created in 1970 and in 1971 bought the studios to be its home, thanks to a loan from the Rank Organisation, producers of the Carry On film series and owners at the time of the nearby Pinewood Studios. It was renamed the National Film and
Somerville Open Studios of 2015, SOS allows people to visit the studios of painters, printers, glassblowers, welders, woodworkers, photographers, and all manner of visual, multimedia and performing artists. Participants have included Taza Chocolate, Vernon Street Studios, and Artisan's Asylum. Somerville Open Studios has been a registered 5011(c)3 nonprofit organization since 2004. Its stated purposes is to provide "...access to artists and [expose] the public to the wide variety of art-making activities taking place in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts." The organization's yearly budget is appx. $34,000 (as of 2012). Somerville Open Studios is managed by a board of directors composed primarily of participating