Townhouse Studios history, being the first studio in the UK to install one of their B-series consoles. The 1000th console produced by SSL was installed in studio one. The SSL B mixing desk still exists. Studio One originally was home to a 72-input Helios console with an Alison 64K computer mixdown system, which now resides at Shorefire Recording Studios, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. In July 1984, Townhouse 3 was opened, this being the old Ramport Studios in Battersea, purchased from the Who, the Helios from Townhouse 1 eventually being installed there, replacing a Neve, the Helios later giving way to
Shepperton Studios 1955, a new company, British Lion Films Ltd, was formed and Roy and John Boulting took over at Shepperton Studios. Their comedies, such as "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), were produced there, as were dramas from other film-makers such as J. Lee Thompson's "The Guns of Navarone" (1961). The studio's other projects from the same decade include Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove" (1964) and the musical "Oliver!" (1968), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Despite the financial ups and downs of British Lion and the changing of hands, the studios remained active until the early 1970s. In 1969, the