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
Fountain Studios opened in September 1929. Perhaps because of a major fire, the studio was never as successful as had been hoped. They were taken over by the American Fox Film Company, who leased the site and then bought it outright in 1936. Fox used the studio for the production of their 'quota quickies'. A change in the law in 1938 led 20th Century Fox to use other studios, but it retained ownership. During the war the studios were leased to the military (the Army Kinematograph Service and RAF Film Unit), with intermittent rental to independents. Ealing Studios filmed "Ships with Wings"