It’s a Wonderful World
Date: 1956
Director: Val Guest
Production Company: George Minter Productions
Stars: George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Terence Morgan, Ted Heath, Mylène Demongeot, James Hayter, Dennis Lotis
Location(s): London
Region(s): London H-L
Storyline:
Two struggling songwriters have an unexpected hit on their hands after they discover a novel way of composing.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
A towel blows in the wind on the washing line strung from the building where pop music composers Ray Thompson and Ken Miller live. There are plenty of studio and matte shots in this production, even a scene filmed inside the Hammersmith Palais de Danse, but that skyline looks genuine enough.
- Capture 2
- 11 Jul 2019
A taxi brings band leader Ted Heath to the offices of the Fielding Music Corporation. Looking towards Cambridge Circus from Shaftesbury Avenue in London WC2.
The trees have shot thus obscuring much of Cambridge Circus. SJ
- Capture 3
- 11 Jul 2019
Ray Thompson (Terence Morgan) enters Bert Fielding's offices. Although the buildings on this section of Shaftesbury Avenue towards Cambridge Circus survive, this property has disappeared through redevelopment.
I'm guessing a little but, if following the continuity in the previous still, about here. SJ
- Capture 4
- 24 Aug 2021
Georgie (Mylène Demongeot) arrives for her appointment at the recording studios. Broadhurst Gardens in NW6 with The Railway Hotel on the corner of West End Lane in the right background.
Denis Hoare went down 'Memory Lane' for us to take this comparative shot. He remarks: "The building the taxi has stopped at in the capture was then Decca Studios, and the alleyway to the garage (Essolube sign) shown in the film is gone and has now been incorporated into the main building. The building at the top left with the columns is "The Railway" pub and was quite famous in the 60's for it's music venue "Klooks Kleek" (aka "The Moonlight")." (RL)
- Capture 5
- 24 Aug 2021
The camera follows the singer as she approaches the studio entrance. As the sign says, the Decca Recording Studio at 165 Broadhurst Gardens in West Hampstead.
Denis provides a further shot and says: "As show in the film this was Decca Studios, now owned by the English National Opera (ENO), although right now it is up for sale. The DECCA sign is replaced by a blue plaque to Lonnie Donegan, unveiled in July 2019 (I was there but unfortunately none of the photos I took then would have the correct angle to be of use here)." (RL)