On Morden's death in 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot bought the land and turned it into a Country Club.

In this respect, Boot is the UK equivalent of Snoopy from Charles.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

Charles Boot built a folly tower overlooking Strines Reservoir in 1927 known as Boot's Folly, it is a prominent landmark for miles around.

When Grant Morden died in 1934 the estate was purchased at auction by Charles Boot, who had recently inherited a large construction firm from his father Henry Boot, who died in 1931.

Within twelve months Charles Boot transformed Heatherden Hall into the office building for a film studio complex.

Charles Boot named it Pinewood Film Studios, reflecting the numerous pine trees surrounding the area.

In 1934 Charles Boot had undertaken to construct a new film studio in the village of Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire.

His location was set among the Pine trees on the estate grounds of a mansion called Heatherden Hall that Charles Boot had recently bought at auction.

By 1935 Charles Boot had approached British National about taking over ownership and management of the new studios and a contract was entered into.

When Grant Morden died in 1934 the estate was purchased at auction by Charles Boot who had recently inherited a large construction firm from his father Henry Boot, who died in 1931.

Within twelve months Charles Boot transformed Heatherden Hall into the office building for a new movie complex which occupied the grounds.

Charles Boot JP ( 1874-1945 ) was the eldest son of Henry Boot and the driving force behind the growth of Henry Boot & Sons in the inter-war period.

Charles Boot was the eldest son of Henry Boot and the second of 13 children born to Henry and Hannah.

Charles Boot died in 1945.

Charles ’ business career is detailed under Henry Boot PLC.

Henry Boot was the eldest surviving son of Charles and Ann Boot.

It may also be based on Alfred's later having accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome where he spent some time at the court of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, around 854 – 855.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

Eliade and his student, Charles H. Long, developed a classification based on some common motifs that reappear in stories the world over.

In 2009 he also wrote a book, Drood, based on Charles Dickens ' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

The film was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and is playfully based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

However, up to the 1940s, many subsequent designs ( including Charles Babbage's machines of the 1822 and even ENIAC of 1945 ) were based on the decimal system ; ENIAC's ring counters emulated the operation of the digit wheels of a mechanical adding machine.

Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and based on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.

The system of mail coaches, carriages and " bians " was further developed by Charles Bianconi, based in Clonmel, from 1815 as a fore-runner of the modern Irish public transportation system.

The development of bleaching powder ( calcium hypochlorite ) by Scottish chemist Charles Tennant in about 1800, based on the discoveries of French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, revolutionised the bleaching processes in the textile industry by dramatically reducing the time required ( from months to days ) for the traditional process then in use, which required repeated exposure to the sun in bleach fields after soaking the textiles with alkali or sour milk.

The ICAO code is based on the region and country of the airport — for example, Charles de Gaulle Airport has an ICAO code of LFPG, where L indicates Southern Europe, F, France, PG, Paris de Gaulle, while Orly Airport has the code LFPO ( the 3rd letter sometimes refers to the particular flight information region ( FIR ) or the last two may be arbitrary ).

In 1964 Charles H. Townes, Nikolay Basov, and Aleksandr Prokhorov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, “ for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser – laser principle ”.

Early socialist thinkers such as Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and the Duc de Saint-Simon based their theories of socialism upon Christian principles.

" " Sha " is a transliteration of the Japanese pronunciation, although Mr. Tomino later publicly confirmed at Anime Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name Charles Aznavour, a popular French-language singer.

* In 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden asked Emanuel Swedenborg to elaborate a number system based on 64 instead of 10.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

Other early socialist thinkers, such as Thomas Hodgkin and Charles Hall, based their ideas on David Ricardo's economic theories.

Similar rubber-soled shoes were made in 1892 in the United States by Humphrey O ' Sullivan, based on Charles Goodyear's technology.

Likewise, Banach's fixed point theorem, based on earlier methods developed by Charles Émile Picard, was included in his dissertation, and was later extended by his students ( for example in the Banach – Schauder theorem ) and other mathematicians ( in particular Bouwer and Poincaré and Birkhoff ).

Meanwhile, the first modern mass-market wargame, based on cardboard counters and maps, was designed and published by Charles S. Roberts in 1952.

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

** David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.