Editing London Films (section)

{{Short description|British film and television production company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = London Films
| industry = production
| founded = 1932
| founder = Alexander Korda
| hq_location = [[Buckinghamshire]]
}}

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[[Image:Panscanrichardiiilogo.JPG|thumbnail|300px|The London Films logo in [[Laurence Olivier]]'s ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]'' (1955).]]
'''London Films Productions''' is a British film and television [[production company]] founded in 1932 by [[Alexander Korda]] and from 1936 based at [[Denham Film Studios]] in Buckinghamshire, near London. The company's productions included ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]'' (1933), ''[[Things to Come]]'' (1936), ''[[Rembrandt (1936 film)|Rembrandt]]'' (1936), and ''[[The Four Feathers (1939 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' (1939). The facility at Denham was taken over in 1939 by [[Rank Organisation|Rank]] and merged with [[Pinewood Studios|Pinewood]] to form D & P Studios. The outbreak of war necessitated that  ''[[The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)|The Thief of Bagdad]]'' (1940) be completed in California, although Korda's handful of American-made films still displayed [[Big Ben]] as their opening corporate logo.<ref name=ak>Kulik, Karol ''Alexander Korda:The Man Who Could Work Miracles''. Virgin Books, 1990. {{ISBN|9780870003356}}</ref>

After a restructuring of Korda's UK operations in the late 1940s, London Films were made at [[Shepperton]]. One of these was ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949). The company's film ''[[The Sound Barrier]]'' (1952) won the [[Academy Award for Best Sound]].<ref name="Oscars1953">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953 |title=The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners |access-date=20 August 2011|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref><ref name=ak/>

More than 40 years after Korda died in January 1956, the company returned to active film-making in 1997 with [[Morgan Mason]] as the chief executive.<ref>Dawtrey, Adam and Rex Weiner. [https://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117435119.html?categoryid=38&cs=1 Mason on top of new London pix] Variety. 7 April 1997. Retrieved 25 August 2007. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026091407/http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117435119.html?categoryid=38&cs=1 |date=26 October 2007 }}</ref>