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Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to...

Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931. A part of the Pinewood Group along with Pinewood and Teddington Studios, it has produced many notable films. Scottish businessman Norman Loudon purchased Littleton Park in 1931 for use in his new film company, Sound Film Producing & Recording Studios, opened in 1932. The studio, which produced both shorts and features, was quickly successful and rapidly expanded. Proximity to Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory, which drew German bombers, disrupted filming in World War II, as did the requisitioning of the studio in 1941 by the Ministry of Defence,who first used it for sugar storage and later to create decoy aircraft and munitions for positioning in the Middle East. After reopening in 1945, the studio changed hands. When Sir Alexander Korda purchased British Lion Films, he also acquired a controlling interest in Sound City and Shepperton Studios. Among the notable films produced at the studio during this period was 1949's The Third Man, which was not only critically acclaimed at the time with a Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival, the British Academy Award for Best Film,