ABSTRACT
This chapter will be directly relevant to your work on FM2: British and American Film – Section B: British Film Topics for the WJEC’s AS level in Film Studies.
If you wish to study Ealing Studios as part of British Production then there is an additional full chapter that can be found in the Resources section of our companion website at https://routledge. tandf.co.uk/textbooks/9780415454339/resources.asp
A history of Working Title Films In 1982, when the British actor and screenwriter Collin Welland collected his Academy Award for the screenplay of Chariots of Fire (UK 1981, Enigma/Twentieth Century Fox, Director: Hugh Hudson) he famously announced, ‘The British are coming!’ The British film industry was in a slump, with homegrown production down to two films a year, and Welland’s triumphant announcement quickly proved to be markedly premature.
