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Denham Studios restaurant by Tony Wysard, 1937

Intensively populated illustration by Tony Wysard, showing imagined diners at the restaurant at Denham Studios. Illustration includes a key to all caricatures portrayed but include David Niven and Gracie Fields (table 7), Rex Harrison, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (table 5), and Charles Laughton (table 12). The artist shows himself peeping into the picture top left. Denham Studios covered over 28 acres in a 165 acre estate. There were seven sound stages, two of which were air-conditioned and the largest in Europe. Date: 1937

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Errol Flynn (colour litho)

3651918 Errol Flynn (colour litho) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Errol Flynn. Illustration for Stars and Films of 1938 edited by Stephen Watts (Daily Express Publications, 1938). Gravure printed.); A© Look and Learn; English, out of copyright

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Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906

Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with headlights, mechanic constructional train set, electric telegraph set, wireless telegraphy set, electric reading lamp, bagatelle boards with ivory balls, electric cigar lighter and finally cinematograph
1906

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