Word: denham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before the Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot be done...
...Died. W. Denham Verschoyle, 75, anti-Newtonian inventor who spent most of his life trying to make an apple fall up; near London...
...great United Nations concern is the future of Axis educational systems. Britain's Baron Vansittart of Denham advocates supervision of German schools by 1,000 or so United Nations inspectors, who would aim to raise a generation of woolly lambs fit to lie down with any lion. Last week a similar idea was expressed in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, who once ran the American Colony School in Berlin (1928-39), then wrote Education for Death (Hitler's Children on the screen). Said Ziemer...
Wallflower (by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham; produced by Meyer Davis) turns a Tarkington fable about two teenage stepsisters into a smoking-car joke. During a raid on a roadhouse, one of the sisters and one of her sister's discarded boy friends are found in an upstairs room. Eventually, of course, it turns out that people had very ribald imaginations...
...best British studios (notably Denham and Pinewood), responsible for turning out-for Rank or for Rank-financed independents-some 75% of whatever British production is worth mentioning...