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The studios at Clarendon Road were opened in 1914 as the main facility for the Neptune Film Company. It was innovative for its time, being the first film studios to entirely use artificial lighting. It changed hands among several different film production companies, until finally being converted for television work in the 1950s. Both Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Alfred Hitchcock produced their signature 1950s television programmes in the facility.

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  • The studios at Clarendon Road were opened in 1914 as the main facility for the Neptune Film Company. It was innovative for its time, being the first film studios to entirely use artificial lighting. It changed hands among several different film production companies, until finally being converted for television work in the 1950s. Both Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Alfred Hitchcock produced their signature 1950s television programmes in the facility.
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  • The studios at Clarendon Road were opened in 1914 as the main facility for the Neptune Film Company. It was innovative for its time, being the first film studios to entirely use artificial lighting. It changed hands among several different film production companies, until finally being converted for television work in the 1950s. Both Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Alfred Hitchcock produced their signature 1950s television programmes in the facility. In 1962, it was sold to Lew Grade, who appropriated it for his Associated Television company in 1962. In 1982, ATV — now known as Central Independent Television — were ordered to find facilities closer to their target audience in the Midlands. The southern studios had to be left behind. The BBC purchased the site in 1984, principally as a venue for their new soap opera, EastEnders. Since then, the site, re-christened "BBC Elstree", has been the home of the soap's famous "Albert Square" location. However, the site's future with the BBC is uncertain, as of 2008, due to EastEnders' upcoming move to Pinewood.
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