Culver Studios, says Lautman, is building a 550, 000-square-foot studio complex it will rent to production companies.

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Lord Attenborough, the chairman of Dragon International Studios, said work on the main studio complex would start before October 2005.

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The Museum, which opened in 1988, was created in one of the City-owned buildings of the former Astoria Studio complex, built in 1920 as the East Coast production facility for Paramount Pictures and now on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Interviewed in a television studio, they were taught to distil complex research ideas into fifteen second snapshots for public consumption.

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When I arrived, a security guard led me to a garage complex that had been re-made into a recording studio and a series of sitting rooms.

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Described as the first newly-built theatre complex in central London in 30 years, St James includes a 312-seat main house and a studio space capable of accommodating up to 150 people.

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