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'Something nice and wholesome and harmless, quaint and static and timeless'. Discuss this view of Ealing Studio films with reference to 'Went the day well?' and 'Passport to Pimlico'.
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Michael D Broadbent MAC 304 Assignment One 'Something nice and wholesome and harmless, quaint and static and timeless'. Discuss this view of Ealing Studio films with reference to 'Went the day well?' and 'Passport to Pimlico'. "Here during a quarter of a century many films were made projecting Britain and the British character."1 So says an inscription erected by Michael Balcon outside of Ealing Studios when they were sold to the BBC in 1955. It is a very accurate summation of what went on at Ealing Studios during the period of Balcon's stewardship from 1939 when he took over from Basil Dean as the head of what was then known as Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). In 1929 Dean, formerly a theatre director formed ATP which started promisingly allowing him to raise the money required to build a studio at Ealing Green which was completed in 1931. Production at ATP was highly varied...
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