Editing Pinewood Studios (section)

===1960s===
[[File:Goldfinger Avenue at Pinewood Studios.png|thumb|right|400px|Goldfinger Avenue]]
During the 1960s, Pinewood was no longer solely dependent on the Rank Organisation to fill its stages. "Renters" (producers hiring the sound stages for a film-by-film agreement) were using half of the stages as Pinewood turned into a [[four walls (filmmaking)|four walls]] facility.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bloom Walden |first=Kiri |title=British Film Studios |publisher=Shire Publications |year=2013 |pages=47–48}}</ref> The [[James Bond in film|James Bond]] franchise began at Pinewood with [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]] directing ''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]'' (1962), and has continued to be based at the studios since then.

J. Arthur Rank (by then Lord Rank) retired as chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had begun to move the Rank Organisation away from mass film production and towards more profitable and less risky businesses such as bingo and holidays.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}