Hammer would dominate British horror production throughout this period with acclaimed English actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee at the forefront, but other companies were created specifically to meet the new demand, including Amicus Productions and Tigon British.

( 1973 ) a Pilgrim's Progress inspired road movie ; and Britannia Hospital ( 1982 ), a fantasia taking stylistic influence from the populist wing of British cinema represented by Hammer horror films and Carry On comedies.

The stock-in-trade of Carry On humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service ( Nurse, Doctor, Again Doctor, Matron ), the monarchy ( Henry ), the Empire ( Up the Khyber ), the military ( Sergeant ) and the trade unions ( At Your Convenience ) as well as the Hammer horror film ( Screaming ), camping ( Camping ), foreigners ( Abroad ), beauty contests ( Girls ), and caravan holidays ( Behind ) among others.

Pettibon ’ s work is included in the collection of many museums and institutions worldwide including: The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL ; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas ; Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal ; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France ; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland ; Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany ; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA ; Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany ; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI ; Museion, Bolzano, Italy ; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria ; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA ; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO ; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA ; Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland ; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ; WIMNAM / CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

A slump in the British film industry forced Hammer into bankruptcy and the company went into liquidation in 1937.

At the time, Hammer voluntarily submitted its scripts to the British Board of Film Censors ( BBFC ) for comments before beginning production.

In 2010 Dutch investigative journalist Karl Hammer published " The secret of the sacred panel " in which he meticulously describes the involvement of various religious groups, the Vatican and British intelligence services in their attempt to recover the lost panel.

Ralph Bates ( 12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991 ) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company.

In the late 1950s British Hammer Film Productions took up the Mummy theme, beginning with The Mummy ( 1959 ), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ) and The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ).

In July 2006, British hard rock magazine Metal Hammer awarded Cantrell the title of Riff Lord, at its annual Golden Gods Awards show, held at the London Astoria.

At roughly the same time as Quatermass II was being transmitted by the BBC, Hammer Film Productions released their film adaptation of the first serial in British cinemas.

Despite Kneale's reservations about the casting, The Quatermass Xperiment was the highest-grossing film Hammer had made up to that point in their history, and has since been described by one academic as " the key British science fiction film of the 1950s.

The group was heavily inspired by seminal British blues-rock band Cream ( with which Pappalardi had been a frequent collaborator: he produced Disraeli Gears, Goodbye and Wheels of Fire, also contributing viola, brass, bells and organ to the latter ) and also comprised keyboardist Steve Knight, who was added after Landsberg left to form another group, Hammer, with Janick.

In 2006, sister British magazines Classic Rock & Metal Hammer included The Last Tour on Earth ( mislabeled The Last Show on Earth ) in The 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s.

Originally aired on BBC2 in 2001, the programme was designed as an anthology series, in the style of Tales from the Crypt, and lampooned many aspects of the horror genre, homaging the British horror films of Hammer, Amicus and Tigon from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dillon was played by John Stone ; Stone too had a long career as a supporting actor in a range of British television series, and in 1956 had a small role in the film X the Unknown, which Hammer Film Productions had intended as a sequel to their version of The Quatermass Experiment, until Kneale denied them the rights to use the character.

At this time, Hammer was operating out of the Associated British Studios in Elstree, Borehamwood.

In 1955, he played the lead in the British science-fiction horror film The Quatermass Xperiment ( called The Creeping Unknown in the US ) for the Hammer Films company, playing the lead role of Professor Bernard Quatermass.

The character had been British, but Hammer cast Donlevy, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and raised in the United States, in an attempt to help sell the film to North American audiences.

X the Unknown is a British science-fiction / horror film made by the Hammer Films company and released in 1956.

Val Guest ( 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006 ) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.

Seven Arts specialized in syndicating old movies and cartoons to TV and had independently produced a number of significant feature films for other studios, including Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, as well as forging a successful production partnership with noted British studio Hammer Films.

He also appeared in character parts in British films of the time, including a few Hammer Films.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the " 100 Greatest British Television Programmes ", a list created by the British Film Institute.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals, Blackadder Goes Forth placed 16th.

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Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

* Charlie Chaplin at the British Film Institute.

It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films.

It was also awarded the Sutherland Trophy at the 1983 British Film Institute Awards.

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This is especially commonplace among larger film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest and even smaller " boutique " festivals such as the Miami International Film Festival and the British Urban Film Festival in London.

London: British Film Institute

The British Film Institute has produced a poll ranking what they consider to be the 100 greatest British films of all time, the BFI Top 100 British films.

The annual British Academy Film Awards hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts are the British equivalent of the Oscars.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Teletubbies is a British BBC children's television series targeted at pre-school viewers and produced from 1997 to 2002 by Ragdoll Productions.

* Home Planet, sponsored by British Airways and BAA plc ( Park Avenue Productions )

**( Novelty ) Wings Over Everest-Gaumont British and Skibo Productions

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

One of Europe's first two feature-length dramatic talkies was created in still a different sort of twist on multinational moviemaking: The Crimson Circle was a coproduction between director Friedrich Zelnik's Efzet-Film company and British Sound Film Productions ( BSFP ).

It was a co-production between British regional ITV franchise holder Television South ( TVS ), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates ( later Jim Henson Productions ), the show was filmed on a Toronto sound stage, ( later at Elstree Studios, London ).

Knightmare is a British television program for children, produced by Broadsword Productions for Anglia Television and was broadcast on ITV from 7 September 1987 to 11 November 1994 ( for 8 series ).

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

In 1986, McGrath was co-founder, with Jimmy Mulville and Denise O ' Donoghue, of the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions.

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill.

* The Architects of History is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

King had pulled together a consortium that included a Panamanian company called Risnelia Investment, the Hemdale Film Corporation, a British company founded by film producer John Daly and the actor David Hemmings, Video Techniques Incorporated of New York and Don King Productions.

Bodies is a BAFTA-nominated British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions.

In Chelmsford 123, a British television situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions, the main character of Badvoc ( played by Rory McGrath ) was the leader of The Trinovantes.

Stressed Eric is a British / American / New Zealand cartoon series that was produced by Absolutely Productions for the BBC Two television channel in the United Kingdom and the Television New Zealand.

McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions ( Scottish Television ).